2006 · comedy · music
The Amateurs
Directed by Michael Traeger1h 36m2006
Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film. Everyman's fantasy turns into a hilarious misadventure when they find they're in way over their heads.
Our read: The Amateurs (2006) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / music, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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“You want a goofy Jeff Bridges small-town comedy about making an adult film.”
Skip it tonight — Raunchy premise comedy with your parents or kids in the room is a hard no.
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