FIND MOVIES
Movie List
Loading ...
or
Find Theaters and Movie Times
or
Search Movies

Review: The Last International Playboy

The late Lucy Gordon overshadows all
By PETER KEOUGH  |  June 16, 2009
2.5 2.5 Stars


VIDEO: The trailer for The Last International Playboy

Steve Clark's slick, sometimes affecting paean to male narcissism opens with what look like gauzy outtakes from Girls Gone Wild. A bevy of beauties drink, dance, shed their clothes, and end up in a bathtub together, all for the delectation of Jack Frost (Jason Behr), who's celebrating the publication of his first novel. It must be a hell of a book, because "seven years later" he's still going strong.

But this debauchery can't fill the emptiness caused by the pending marriage of his childhood sweetheart, Carolina (Monet Mazur). So the crass nudity gives way to credible heart-to-hearts between Jack and his network, which includes wanna-be player Scotch (Mike Landry), alcoholic flibbertigibbet Ozzy (Krysten Ritter), and wise-beyond-her-years 11-year-old Sophie (India Ennenga), who adds a note of creepiness to Jack's boozy flashbacks to his pre-adolescent courting of Carolina.

But they're all overshadowed by Lucy Gordon as a journalist/love interest — it's her first release since her suicide.

Related: Review: Betty Blue, The Director's Cut, Sputnik Mania, Review: Julia, More more >
  Topics: Reviews , Entertainment, Movies, Erotic Films,  More more >
| More


Most Popular
ARTICLES BY PETER KEOUGH
Share this entry with Delicious
  •   REVIEW: WUTHERING HEIGHTS [2012]  |  October 19, 2012
    Merchant-Ivory this is not. Nor is it any Emily Brontë we've seen before.
  •   INTERVIEW: ANDREA ARNOLD'S ROMANTIC REALISM  |  October 18, 2012
    People in love do crazy things, especially in Andrea Arnold's films. So adapting Emily Brontë's masterpiece of pathological love, Wuthering Heights , came naturally.
  •   REVIEW: SISTER  |  October 18, 2012
    Increasingly popular among American independent filmmakers, the school of miserabilism — starkly dramatizing the poor, wretched, and unjustly deprived — has thrived in Europe.
  •   REVIEW: GIRL MODEL  |  October 10, 2012
    As seen in David Redmon and Ashley Sabin's somber, sometimes poetic, Fred Wiseman-like documentary, the international model trade ranks just above human trafficking in legitimacy.
  •   REVIEW: WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971)  |  October 10, 2012
    Combining elements of Heart of Darkness , After Hours , and Groundhog Day , Ted Kotcheff's brutally brilliant Outback thriller follows the moral degradation, or perhaps redemption, of a snooty schoolteacher (Gary Bond) traveling from the backwater where he's assigned to Sydney for his Christmas vacation.

 See all articles by: PETER KEOUGH