Just Can't Get Enough Review
Wolfe Video
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Reviewed by dumblonde on 3/29/2003
Writer/Director: David Payne
Videographer: Mike Mickens
Female cast: Rebekah Ryan, Michele Howard, Kira Reed, Sandra Bettin, Veronica Hill, Rani Pappe
Male cast: Jonathan Aube, Shelly Malil, J.P. Pitoc, Peter Nevargic, Paul Clark, Kevin Dailey, Norman Cole, Alejandro Patino
Audio/Video: This is a docudrama, shot with handheld cameras, yet without the frenetic shakiness that usually entails. Since it's more of a mainstream Hollywood production, video and sound were top notch. The soundtrack is filled with original 80's dance tunes.
Extras:
Commentary option by key players Candice Mayron, Wolf and director David Payne
Scene selection
The Movie:
This is NOT a porn movie. It's not even a softcore sex movie. It is however the true story of Chippendale's, and how the whole male stripper phenomenon came about.
I was hooked from the opening disclaimer -
What you are about to see pretty much happened. Although most of the names have been changed for legal reasons, we did use a few names of real people who, as a result of their untimely deaths, can no longer sue.
I was going to describe it as sort of a B-grade Boogie Nights, but that's not really accurate. It's better than a B movie and more of a docudrama.
Filled with black comedy, beefcake, blundering hitmen, sex drugs and 80's dance music, if I didn't know better, I would have thought "Yeah, right."
Steve Banerjee, a stuttering East Indian who started the club, hires choreographer Nick DeNoia to give the club dancers some polish. Business improves bigtime, and eventually Nick wants to take some dancers on the road. Nick has become a pain the ass to Steve, who is beset by so many other problems that he foolishly signs away the touring rights on a cocktail napkin just to get rid of him. Naturally he regrets it later, and has his shady security guy 'Glomski' find a hitman to take care of the problem. Glomski tells him it will take at least $100,000 to get the job done, pocketing a cool $99,000 profit for himself. He knows a guy who knows a guy who knows Mexican heroin addict who meets with Glomski and offers to do it for $400. This disgusts Glomski, who actually has to coax him to ask for more.
If it's not one thing it's another for the stuttering Steve. The gays were a big thorn in his side, hitting him with discrimination lawsuits for not being allowed admittance into the shows. The fire marshalls were constantly threating to shut him down for violations, which prompts Steve to ask Glomski to burn down the firehouse. Even Glomski wants no part of that hairbrained idea, however.
Running parallel to this is the story of four of the dancers who rent a beach house together. Chad, the lead character, is a real good looking guy and college graduate who at first refuses to be a dancer. He has eyes on a managerial position, but eventually succumbs to Steve's enticements, and becomes the Face of Chippendale's, losing his longtime girlfriend in the process.
Another buddy Clayton, when he's not doing lines of coke, serves as the club's DJ. He also services an old broad named Dottie so well that she croaks on him, in another funny scene called Death By Cunnilingus.
Later on, the four defect to start their own club, which naturally marks them for a rubout from Glomski's hitman, who gets busted in a public bathroom before he can carry out his mission.
He rolls over on Glomski, who in turn sets up Steve after they both flee to Paris, France. It ends with Steve eventually hanging himself in his jail cell.
Fascinating story.
Best Line: from the cop investigating Dottie's death -
"How did this happen? The guys at the station house could use the pointers."
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Videographer: Mike Mickens
Female cast: Rebekah Ryan, Michele Howard, Kira Reed, Sandra Bettin, Veronica Hill, Rani Pappe
Male cast: Jonathan Aube, Shelly Malil, J.P. Pitoc, Peter Nevargic, Paul Clark, Kevin Dailey, Norman Cole, Alejandro Patino
Audio/Video: This is a docudrama, shot with handheld cameras, yet without the frenetic shakiness that usually entails. Since it's more of a mainstream Hollywood production, video and sound were top notch. The soundtrack is filled with original 80's dance tunes.
Extras:
Commentary option by key players Candice Mayron, Wolf and director David Payne
Scene selection
The Movie:
This is NOT a porn movie. It's not even a softcore sex movie. It is however the true story of Chippendale's, and how the whole male stripper phenomenon came about.
I was hooked from the opening disclaimer -
What you are about to see pretty much happened. Although most of the names have been changed for legal reasons, we did use a few names of real people who, as a result of their untimely deaths, can no longer sue.
I was going to describe it as sort of a B-grade Boogie Nights, but that's not really accurate. It's better than a B movie and more of a docudrama.
Filled with black comedy, beefcake, blundering hitmen, sex drugs and 80's dance music, if I didn't know better, I would have thought "Yeah, right."
Steve Banerjee, a stuttering East Indian who started the club, hires choreographer Nick DeNoia to give the club dancers some polish. Business improves bigtime, and eventually Nick wants to take some dancers on the road. Nick has become a pain the ass to Steve, who is beset by so many other problems that he foolishly signs away the touring rights on a cocktail napkin just to get rid of him. Naturally he regrets it later, and has his shady security guy 'Glomski' find a hitman to take care of the problem. Glomski tells him it will take at least $100,000 to get the job done, pocketing a cool $99,000 profit for himself. He knows a guy who knows a guy who knows Mexican heroin addict who meets with Glomski and offers to do it for $400. This disgusts Glomski, who actually has to coax him to ask for more.
If it's not one thing it's another for the stuttering Steve. The gays were a big thorn in his side, hitting him with discrimination lawsuits for not being allowed admittance into the shows. The fire marshalls were constantly threating to shut him down for violations, which prompts Steve to ask Glomski to burn down the firehouse. Even Glomski wants no part of that hairbrained idea, however.
Running parallel to this is the story of four of the dancers who rent a beach house together. Chad, the lead character, is a real good looking guy and college graduate who at first refuses to be a dancer. He has eyes on a managerial position, but eventually succumbs to Steve's enticements, and becomes the Face of Chippendale's, losing his longtime girlfriend in the process.
Another buddy Clayton, when he's not doing lines of coke, serves as the club's DJ. He also services an old broad named Dottie so well that she croaks on him, in another funny scene called Death By Cunnilingus.
Later on, the four defect to start their own club, which naturally marks them for a rubout from Glomski's hitman, who gets busted in a public bathroom before he can carry out his mission.
He rolls over on Glomski, who in turn sets up Steve after they both flee to Paris, France. It ends with Steve eventually hanging himself in his jail cell.
Fascinating story.
Best Line: from the cop investigating Dottie's death -
"How did this happen? The guys at the station house could use the pointers."
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