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Live Virgin

2000, Movie, NR, 105 mins

Live Virgin: Review

LIVE VIRGIN | AMERICAN VIRGIN
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A lightweight parody of the porn industry and daytime talk shows that has the look and feel of a middling direct-to-video feature, this film probably merited theatrical release because it features Mena Suvari, AMERICAN BEAUTY's dewy object of desire. Warring porn kingpins Ronny Bartoloti (Robert Loggia) and Joey Quinn (Bob Hoskins, affecting a broad American accent) share a lot of history, all bad: Ronny trained Joey in porn filmmaking, Joey decamped and set up a rival business, Ronny stole Joey's wife, Mitzi (Alexandra Wentworth). And that's nothing compared with what's coming. Joey has devised a new wrinkle in smut: He's going to broadcast the deflowering of a beautiful virgin on pay cable and the Internet; viewers wearing specially made virtual-reality suits will feel as though they're in the middle of the action. The show is called Live Virgin, and the virgin is Ronny's high school age daughter, Trina (Mena Suvari), who — in the time-honored manner of disgruntled teenage girls — has figured out the one thing she can do that will drive her father insane. After Trina announces her Live Virgin gig on a daytime talk show hosted by gimlet-eyed provocateur Quaint McPerson (Sally Kellerman), the complications start piling up. Quaint's son Brian (Gabriel Mann), Trina's ex-boyfriend, still loves Trina and will do anything to stop her. Ronny is out to kill Quinn, Quaint is hellbent on getting exclusive coverage of the event and keeping her son away from Trina, and Joey is gleefully orchestrating his sordid circus maximus. The feature-film debut of French fashion photographer Jean-Pierre Marois, this inconsequential farce has some funny moments, but it's the sort of thing you forget within hours of having seen it. Suvari is charming, and the cast also features Vincent Schiavelli as a sleazy cab driver and Esai Morales as a pretentious porn director. leave a comment --Maitland McDonagh
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