Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star
- warm
- brisk
- gentle
- intimate
- funny
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A kid from the Midwest moves out to Hollywood in order to follow in his parents footsteps -- and become a porn star.
Our read · Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Bucky Larson
What watching it is actually like.
“You want so-bad-it's-a-party Hollywood porn-parody catastrophe.”
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The reading.
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