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Holistic Guidance - The Fluffer (Unrated Special Edition)
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List Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Starring: Scott Gurney, Michael Cunio, Roxanne Day, Taylor Negron, Richard Riehle
Directed By: Wash Westmoreland;Richard Glatzer
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0720229910248
Format: Color
Label: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Manufacturer: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-08-27
Running Time: 95
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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(fluff.er, n): One who offers ego reinforcement; one who provides the necessary stimulation for a male porn star to perform.
THE FLUFFER is the first collaboration of directors Wash West and Richard Glatzer-- director of the 1994 hit independent film Grief. After years of research in the porn industry, West wrote the script and worked with Glatzer to bring it to the screen. With its memorable title, suggestive premise, and controversial themes, THE FLUFFER has stunned critics and delighted audiences all over America.
The sex industry provides the backdrop for this story of obsession, submission, money and sexuality. The story is centered around three adult industry staffers: Johnny Rebel--a hot-blooded, narcissistic, "gay for pay" porn star; Sean McGinnis--the young, naïve kid who moves to LA to pursue a career in the movies; and Johnny's long-time stripper girlfriend, Julie Disponzio, whose working name is "Babylon." When Sean accidentally rents a copy of a Johnny Rebel video, he becomes so obsessed with the beefy star that he gets a job as a cameraman at Johnny's production company. It doesn't take long before he steps beyond his job description to a more intimate role as Johnny's fluffer. While Babylon navigates her clients at the strip club and Sean negotiates the inhabitants of the porno underworld, both struggle to keep the man they love from falling into a world of drugs and despair.
The film stars Scott Gurney as Johnny Rebel, Michael Cunio as Sean McGinnis and Roxanne Day as Babylon. THE FLUFFER also features performances by Deborah Harry (lead singer of Blondie), Guinevere Turner (Go Fish, American Psycho), gay porn director Chi Chi LaRue, and adult film legend Ron Jeremy.
THE FLUFFER received its world premiere at the 2001 Berlin Film Festival and was enthusiastically received at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival, before having its theatrical premiere at New York's Quad Cinema in November 2001. The film broke the 29-year-old theater's house records for a single-screen opening weekend and for a full week. It went on to play major festivals such as Moscow, Stockholm, Thessaloniki, and Melbourne. Despite the taboo-breaking nature of the subject matter, THE FLUFFER has sold worldwide to countries including Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany, and Taiwan.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Interesting Job
Comment: "THE FLUFFER"
Interesting Work
Amos Lassen and Cinema Pride
I suppose everyone knows what a fluffer is-- if you don't ask a friend. I think a fluffer's job has to be very interesting but I wonder if you can make a living from it. But I digress.
"The Fluffer" (First Run Films) is the story of Sean, a young, inexperienced gay male who recently moved to the city of angels and is struggling to find his place in both his professional and personal life. One night while watching gay porn, he becomes infatuated with Johnny Rebel (Scott Gurney) and he goes over to the studio that made the film and gets himself hired as a production assistant. Via the job he ends up on the set of a movie where he meets Johnny Rebel. Johnny was having a bit of trouble getting "it" up for a particular scene and he asks Sean for a little help. From this point on Sean has a little extra to do at work--he is Johnny's fluffer. As his fluffer, Sean becomes obsessed with Johnny only to learn that Johnny has many demons of his own. He is straight and arrogant, egotistical and a user of crystal meth who lives with his stripper girlfriend, Julie.
When Julie gets pregnant, things go out of control. She wants the baby and Johnny is beginning his decline as a top porn star. Porn stars have short spans as top dogs as there is always someone younger and better equipped waiting in the wings to take the lead. "The Fluffer" gives us a look at the gay porn industry though the eyes of a photographer who becomes a fluffer. Sean is obsessed with a gay-for-pay straight porn actor whom he regards as perfection. With the pregnancy of his girlfriend and the start of his decline as a box office draw, the porn star sinks into a state of despair and drags Sean with him. Sean gains a skewed view of his idol and of his chance to have a meaningful relationship with him and the destruction that follows and the salvation afterwards is what this film is all about.
It is an interesting, well-acted film with complicated and interesting characters and is basically well done. Oscar material it is not. Johnny Rebel is a self-centered opportunist who can't seem to get enough of anything. Once in a while he wants Sean and Sean is well aware of where he stands with Scott (Johnny Rebel is his screen name) but he can't help himself.
You would think that a movie about fluffing would have some hot sex scenes. It doesn't and there is no happy ending. Instead we have a look at unrequited love and the depths to which one will sink to try to get that love returned.
The only thing really sexy about the movie is the title. The guys in the movie are not so hot and the plot is a drawn out exercise in what could have been done in no more than a half an hour. It could have been so much better. Some of it works really well but after the first half the movie went downhill. I don't know that I would watch it a second time but it was pleasant enough for a brief respite. Have a look and decide for yourself. But be warned--a classic, it is not.
Customer Rating:
Summary: very low budget
Comment: good crpit but note well made, it could be better but doesnt have any partiuclar part I would like to see again, in other words to bad I pay for it, sorry
Customer Rating:
Summary: Worth seeing it, for sure.
Comment: Even if it's not one of my favorite gay films ever, I think this is a very interesting film to learn about the movie industry (or probably the gay underground side of it). The two main characters are a visual plus for the movie. I wouldn't buy this movie unless you are very much into some of the topics the movie deals with. I do recommend to rent it at least.
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Summary: Stuck in the middle with you......
Comment: "The Fluffer" boasts some moments of really good acting and some quality comedic & dramatic scenes throughout it's run. However, as a heterosexual male, this movie also had plenty of moments that left me feeling uncomfortable, and some others that were pretty outlandish.
Not to familiar with movies in this genre, I thought I would give this one a go. It was worth watching, but I really wouldn't want to see it more than once.
Sean is a young inexperienced gay man whose just moved to LA and is struggling to find his place in both his professional and personal life. While renting a gay X-rated film one night, he becomes intoxicated with its leading man Johnny Rebel (Scott Gurney). So he hightails it over to the company that made the film and gets himself a job as a P.A. (production assistant).
This leads him to an on-set encounter with none other than Johnny Rebel- who after some "difficulty" shooting a particular scene, carouses young Sean over to him and asks him for a little "help". Hence, Sean becomes a sort of personal "fluffer" for Johnny when he has this difficult moments from there on....
"Fluffing" is a term that refers to someone who coaxes and erection out of a male porn actor when they are having trouble.
So Sean becomes obsessed with Johnny- a guy who has plenty of demons of his own. Johnny is a straight, egotistical, arrogant crystal meth user who lives with his stripper girlfriend Julie (Roxanne Day).
Things began to really spiral out of control when Julie gets pregnant, wants to have the baby, and Johnny starts to decline in his status as a "top dog" with the company he works for.
Some scenes in "The Fluffer" work very nicely. The scenes with Johnny and Julia, as well as most with Johnny and Sean are very well acted and play out nicely. Johnny is a tortured soul- and you can easily feel his despair. All three of the actors did a great job with their characters.
The movie takes a real downturn towards the end- with Johnny and Sean hightailing it down to Mexico for reasons you'll have to watch to find out. Johnny's descent downhill plays out too quick, and overall is pretty far fetched. There's also a small subplot with Sean trying to date some other guy that really wasn't needed in the movie.
Overall, this reviewer felt the stronger half of the film was it's first half. And although the subject matter and some scenes were a little too much for me personally, the performances in "The Fluffer" helped greatly to make the movie work.
I wouldn't want to see it again- but would say the "The Fluffer" is an average film with some above average acting.
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Summary: ADORATION IS A HEAVY BURDEN
Comment: The Fluffer is a very interesting and almost squalid view of gay porn industry through the eyes of a videographer turned back stage fluffer. Our "hero" is obsessed with a gay-for-pay straight guy who is porn perfection. We discover that the "straight guy" has a pole-dancer girlfriend who eventually becomes pregnant by him. His moral decline (imagine that), and the "fluffer's" skewed view of his potential with his idol leads to destruction and a form of salvation for 2 of the 3 main characters. The movie starts slow, but gains speed. Don't buy it...rent it...!
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