Alexandra Fabic, Alexandra Guerineaud, Amanda Henderson
Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi uses an unconventional mix of home movies, candid confessionals and reenactments to chronicle his own struggles with sex addiction in this award-winning autobiographical comedy....( read more
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DVD Release Date: September 12, 2006
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January 19, 2009Caveh Zahedi wrote, directed, and starred in this autobiographical documentary style tale of a man's addictions with sex and prostitutes, and the way that effects his relationships with women. It examines how being bluntly honest about something like that, can often have a negat...( read more)
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September 9, 2008An autobiographical comedy, presented in semi-documentary style that chronicles American independent director and screenwriter Caveh Zahedi's own sex addiction and its impact on his life, relationships, and film making...
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November 6, 2007Surprising good story. And it seems this is also and autobiographical endeavor. The director narrates, and tell you about his problems with women..and himself. Funny, and very telling.
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April 9, 2007This isn't easy to rate because there's somethin annoyingly sincere about the bloke and it isn't an effort without some beauty or message. But I think it's just rather stretched in the middle and it took a long time to tell a very normal story from one man's view.
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August 19, 2009Wow... muy buena biografia... y en ciertas partes me identifique con el personaje
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April 21, 2009I rented this movie not knowing what to expect. What I got was a really low budget story of a guy telling the story of his addiction to prostitution...and it is hilarious.
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Critic Reviews
April 21, 2006
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
April 17, 2006
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker
It's hard to disapprove of Zahedi, who is far more of a pushover, or a patsy, than the fierce and knowing women he meets. full review
April 7, 2006
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
It just might be the truest film about addiction, of any kind, that has ever been made. full review
March 3, 2006
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
Were the articulate director a less obnoxious presence, he might have just pulled off his audaciously self-conscious endeavor. full review
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July 19, 2008Was anyone else supprised at how hot the women this guy gets are..
ok yes some were actresses.. most of them playing hookers.. but when you really got to see the girls they were supprisingly hot.. especially that young girl he married..
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September 20, 2006yeah! lets say i like this cuz it bring the real me out from the dark u know what i mean......:)...LOL!
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September 10, 2006Few mental illnesses elicit laughter, but sex addiction comes close. Tell a friend that you have a problem with sex, and he's likely to say, "Yeah, me too: My problem is I can't get enough." But for millions of Americans — experts put the figure at 5 to 8 percent of the U.S. population — sex is as much a destructive force as alcohol, drugs, or gambling. Like other addicts, these people are powerless to stop acting out, compulsively driven to engage in one-night stands, extramarital affairs, voyeurism, or exhibitionism. In the case of Caveh Zahedi, the problem is visiting prostitutes. Zahedi, an acclaimed local filmmaker, doesn't fit the sex addict stereotype of a leering man with trembling hands. He's as thin as a rail, with a shy, toothy grin and a welcoming manner. When he speaks, he fixes his listener with a steady gaze, as if he were trying to communicate his every thought telepathically.
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