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Sex Monster (The)
- Director: Mike Binder
- Writer: Mike Binder
- Producer: Sharon Bialy; Jack Binder
CGiii Comment
Binder directed the atrocious Blankman and the acceptable The Upside of Anger - with these credentials, he is an obvious hit or miss kind of director.
He has directed some big names and, with this overly laboured diatribe, he wants his name to be just as big - since he has given himself the starring role - as a sort of a Woody Allen-with-style impression - which is intensely annoying.
The comedy, if that's what you can call it, is chauvinistic and predictable.
Binder has neither the charisma (to be a big name), the insight (to be a great writer) nor the vision (to be a great director) - he will always be a 3rd rate filmmaker who sufficiently produces adequate padding for TV schedules.
And this is a testament to his ego - or is it a mid-life crisis, both on and off the screen?
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A neurotic L.A. building contractor pushes his wife into entering into a three way sexual relationship. Unfortunately for him, his wife gets more out of it than he does and becomes a tigress seducing every female she meets including the contractor's secretary.
Cast & Characters
Mariel Hemingway as Laura Barnes;
Mike Binder as Marty Barnes;
Renee Humphrey as Didi;
Taylor Nichols as Billy;
Missy Crider as Diva;
Christopher Lawford as Dave Pembroke;
Joanna Heimbold as Evie Pembroke;
Kevin Pollak as Dr. Jerry Berman;
Stephen Baldwin as Murphy;
Anita Barone as Carol;
Kara Zediker as Ellen;
Marisol Nichols as Lucia;
Holland Taylor as Muriel;
Melissa Denton as Salon Customer;
Noah Stone as Danny