Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.
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Tales of young men using their physical gifts to use older men for advancing their station are as old as literature and certainly film, so the director would have had to use a new approach to make yet another take on this yarn interesting. He didn't. It's an extraordinarily predictable story about an aspiring writer moonlighting as a prostitute to serve as inspiration of his debut novel while working as an intern at a posh magazine. Very predictably, he gets too close to his clients (played by famous heterosexual actors).
This sort of thing can be told in a mystical fashion like in "Strapped" (2010) or culturally like in "From the Edge of the City" (1998) or humorously like in "Gerontophilia" (2013). This film choses complete and total blandness. There is simply nothing interesting about the protagonist or his friends or his encounters. It's as superficial as wall paper. It's one of those films which makes one wonder who finances these things and for what audience they are intended. It's an assemblage of pretty pictures which would be fitting for softcore porn, yet the sex scenes are as clinical as the rest. If you care for a more realistic look at gay prostitution, try the documentary "Rent Boys" (2011).
This sort of thing can be told in a mystical fashion like in "Strapped" (2010) or culturally like in "From the Edge of the City" (1998) or humorously like in "Gerontophilia" (2013). This film choses complete and total blandness. There is simply nothing interesting about the protagonist or his friends or his encounters. It's as superficial as wall paper. It's one of those films which makes one wonder who finances these things and for what audience they are intended. It's an assemblage of pretty pictures which would be fitting for softcore porn, yet the sex scenes are as clinical as the rest. If you care for a more realistic look at gay prostitution, try the documentary "Rent Boys" (2011).
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- Gross US & Canada
- $64,493
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,876
- Aug 4, 2024
- Gross worldwide
- $64,493
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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