Strictly Sexual

December. 02,2008      R
Rating:
6.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Two successful women, sick and tired of dating and relationships, decide to keep two young men in their pool house for strictly sexual purposes.

Amber Benson as  Donna
Johann Urb as  Joe
Kristen Kerr as  Christi Ann
Trevor Murphy as  Damian

Reviews

Ehirerapp
2008/12/02

Waste of time

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Exoticalot
2008/12/03

People are voting emotionally.

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Steineded
2008/12/04

How sad is this?

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Bea Swanson
2008/12/05

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

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caue rego (cregox)
2008/12/06

Not sure why I rated this 7 when I first watched it, about 6 or 5 years ago. This is now the first movie I'm rating according to this brand new movie rating scale I just made precisely because I wanted to properly rate this flick - and it's a definite IMDb 10 for me, even while not perfect.I think the ending was a bit (spoilers) and there was this (spoilers) near the ending, which could have been better stitched. Other than that, all I know about the movie is what I read in the one review quoted below and here are my many kudos to Stevie Long! Really a piece of art. :smile:

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kristen_wodyka
2008/12/07

This film was amazing! Although i would categorize it as a bit of a chick flick i think that anyone could really enjoy this movie. It take you through all different scenarios and feelings right up until the end. It is funny, sad, romantic, quirky, the list can go on and on. I even teared up quite a bit at the end because i really thought it was going to end differently than it did. The characters are all very well played and you fall in love with all of them. The two main characters Kristi Ann and Donna look very similar to other actresses so it was a bit difficult to see them as who they actually are. I would recommend this film for a date night or even to just watch by yourself! Not recommended for younger children though. There were a lot of sex scenes but all of them were done tastefully. For me the film was a 10 out of 10 because i truly did love it! Watch it for yourself!

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c_tasharski
2008/12/08

What a surprise! I was half expecting a soft core, desperate housewives feel given the title. I was expecting cheap acting. poor character progression, bad storyline and even worse story and character believability. I was sorely and thankfully mistaken. The acting was sound, the characters were interesting and believable and the storyline, although not deep, was entertaining. Me being a 28 year old male could actually see character traits in the two lead male actors in myself. Maybe that is what kept me drawn in. This movie actually inspired me to get on and write my first review here on IMDb. Not because this movie is life changing or amazing, but because somehow I believe a lot of people missed the boat on viewing this one . I saw this movie on Hulu, the place where either no name or low grossing movies are shown (not that way for TV shows), so I had low expectations. Maybe by watching this movie at Hulu instead of renting it or watching it in the theater my expectations were different. Because my expectations were low I was really happy, surprised and impressed with this movie. That would be an interesting psychological study, but that is off topic. I do not give very many movies a high rating but this one surprised me. It is definitely a movie I would purchase. This movie came out fairly recently (2008) and I am not sure how this one missed everyone's attention. Maybe it was poor marketing, maybe people had too high of expectations or maybe the title threw everyone off. In summary this movie was an interesting find. It has elements of a comedy and a drama, is a unique look into the stereotypes of gender and relationships and the ending was an unexpected surprise. This movie is not for everyone but If you can get past the first 20 minutes, this movie cleans up nicely. My advice though is to not go into this movie thinking that it is a life changer. Go into it with an open mind unassuming or expecting it to be bad. That seems to be, at least for me, when there is a pleasant surprise.

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bob the moo
2008/12/09

Thanks again to the IMDb community, since this film came to me via a fellow reviewer in the US – currently on this site it has no UK release date so I suspect I may never have seen it otherwise. However this is not thanks for the quality of the film – only of the gesture. Strictly Sexual has a provocative title and a plot that matches it. It starts with a rather abrupt "future" scene before flashing back to the origins of the story. At this point it has a fun fizz to it that carries you along despite the sheer unlikeliness of the narrative – the gloss and the rather contained nature of it makes it quite engaging.The problems with it come once this early fizz has settled down a little bit. At stage the film starts to become more of a dramatic affair with the playing out of the drama that inherently comes with any "casual" relationship. In itself this is engaging enough but it never totally rings true and I always felt like I was watching a film with actors in it – it never sucked me into these relationships or gave me things that I could see were real. I have to put this at the door of the script because it is here where this problem comes from. Ultimately it comes down to being a romantic drama but when it is doing the "drama" part, it distracts but never moves.I don't put this on the cast though because they do as well as they can with the material. The women are the stronger but this may be because they have the dominant characters. Benson does a good job with her character, allowing her to be difficult to understand and a bit conflicted in her signals but yet also keeps her open to the viewer. Kerr has to carry the romance side of the drama and she does this with beauty, lightness and a delicate performance that isn't brilliant but is just what the film needs. I found Long a little heavy in the role and I confess that I though he would have been better handing off to someone else and stick as writer. He is OK though and he works well with Urb, who is a bit too much of a pretty boy but works well with Kerr. The film contains the action really well and the tight focus on these 4 in a handful of locations gives the film a really good feel of watching an intimate play – shame that the material doesn't get as impacting or meaningful as this proximity deserves.Strictly Sexual is an OK film but it is not as amazing as some here would suggest. The intimate delivery and sexual fizz of the material doesn't transition well when it gets more serious and, when it should suck the viewer in, it only really retains the superficial air that it started with. This is a shame because, while the film feels like it should be better, it ultimately doesn't have the reality and substance that I found myself wanting.

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