
Jody has arrived in Hollywood, fresh out of a New York film school with student awards in hand, and ready to get her film made. Problem is Jody can't get a job and can't get anybody to read her script. The only job Jody can get is as an editor at a porn production company. Still determined to get her film made, Jody attempts to use the studio's facilities, but the repercussions if she gets caught, might be more than she can handle.... (Full plot summary below)
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Jody has arrived in Hollywood, fresh out of a New York film school with student awards in hand, and ready to get her film made. Problem is Jody can't get a job and can't get anybody to read her script. The only job Jody can get is as an editor at a porn production company. Still determined to get her film made, Jody attempts to use the studio's facilities, but the repercussions if she gets caught, might be more than she can handle.
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| AV ClubScott TobiasCall it the Frozen Assets Rule: If the one-joke premise of a comedy is accompanied -- or begs to be accompanied -- by the sound of a record scratching, avert your eyes. |
| Monsters and CriticsRon WilkinsonA romantic comedy with an edge born out of desperation. |
| Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenAs the film veers between cartoonish and earnest, it doesn't so much find bliss as try very hard to manufacture it. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThe supporting players, including Kristen Johnston as Grind's wise production head, Denise Richards as Jody's movie's gentle leading lady and Jamie Kennedy as a sweet but dense porn actor, also deftly rise to the occasion. |
| NewsBlazePrairie MillerYou know a porn romance is in trouble when the biggest shocker is Jesse James as himself caught finding his bliss in a fully clothed surprise cameo at an AVN Adult Entertainment Awards gala. Movie Verdict: Get a room. Or better yet, the entire hotel. |
| New York TimesStephen HoldenIsn't especially funny. Nor is it sexy, despite flashes of nudity and fleeting glimpses of Grind's works in progress. |
| VarietyRonnie ScheibDavis sustains a steady level of soft humor throughout, thanks to her heroine's inexhaustible shockability and the palpable charm of the other thesps. |
| Time OutNick SchagerWhat's limper than a self-referential indie about an aspiring filmmaker struggling to make a movie? One set in the superdirty porn industry! |
| Filmcritic.comJesse Hassengerfails to provide insight into the porn industry, filmmaking, or basic human behavior. |
| Village VoiceMichelle OrangeIt is particularly painful to watch Sobieski -- whose unnervingly symmetrical, Botticelli face and supernatural poise can't help but hold the screen -- put through the paces of Davis's almost unbearably labored script. |