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Taavi is a wealthy and artistic young man who goes nowhere without his camcorder. On his 18th birthday, he inherits his deceased parents' mansion, and immediately throws a wild party. Of course, he ta...( read more  read more... )pes the entire drunken spree. The next morning, Taavi shows the film to his best friends. They are inspired to form a club, with one simple agenda: At each meeting, members must bring a videotape of his latest sexual adventure. The tape can be shot openly or covertly, with a partner or a stranger. What starts as a simple game quickly degenerates into dangerous compulsions, as their girlfriends' refuse to be taped, and the boys turn to prostitutes and swingers to find new material. Soon, fun and games turn to the darker currents of coercion and abuse, and the young men are forced to confront their own mortality in the viewfinder.

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Unrated, 100 min.

Directed by: Jukka-Pekka Siili

Release Date: October 4, 2003

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DVD Release Date: September 6, 2005

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  • September 1, 2008
    sex,videos and lies all that u could have in this movie,
    and by reading some of reviews about movie i noticed that everybody jsut saw that sex and vidoes story almost none wrote a single word about Taavi's problem in hes mind about hes parents, how he trying to reanimate hes mem...( read more)orys with those actors he took, for recoding, i think that very good put all in behind all those sex recording :)
    nice story but could be done much better
    i love Finnish movies,
  • May 22, 2008
    i couldnt even tell you.
  • January 30, 2008
    The movie seems to have a good concept underneath, but it is badly executed. Most of the time it keeps jumping from one point to the other without allowing yourself to identify greatly with the characters themselves. The conflicts are interesting but at some points they seem to b...( read more)e too unreal for a teenage drama.
  • June 21, 2007
    This was a masterpeice. I was very shocked at how much of a great fiim this was.
  • June 21, 2007
    This sucked worse than the time I caught Barry Bonds's record breaking homerun ball worth a million dollars only to realize it was a dream when I was woken up by a crazky naked homeless man violating me.
  • April 8, 2007
    i really wana see this movie it sounds cool. haha
  • August 13, 2006
    A Finnish take on 'Sex, Lies and Videotape'. Interesting but few characters are actually likeable enough to empathise with.

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