Dirty Love (film)

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Dirty Love
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by John Mallory Asher
Written by Jenny McCarthy
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyEric Wycoff
Edited byWarren Bowman
Music byD. A. Young
Production
companies
Distributed by First Look International
Release dates
  • January 2005 (2005-01)(Sundance)
  • September 23, 2005 (2005-09-23)
Running time
91 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$36,099 [1]

Dirty Love is a 2005 American romantic comedy film written by Jenny McCarthy and directed by John Mallory Asher. The film stars McCarthy alongside Eddie Kaye Thomas, Carmen Electra, Victor Webster and Kam Heskin. The film follows a photographer's misadventures in dating after her boyfriend cheats on her.

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The film was first shown at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival followed by a limited theatrical release on September 23, 2005. Dirty Love was universally panned by critics who criticized its humor, screenplay, acting, Asher's direction, and cinematography. At the 26th Golden Raspberry Awards, the film won four of its six Razzie nominations, including Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Director, and Worst Actress for McCarthy. It is often considered to be one of the worst films of all time.

Plot

Struggling photographer Rebecca Sommers finds her model boyfriend Richard in bed with another woman. Her life falls apart, and she alternates between desire for revenge upon him, sexual promiscuity, and abandonment of all hope of love. Her best friends, Michelle and Carrie, try to set her up on dates. These include one with a freakish magician and another with a man who gives her ecstasy and has a fetish for fish. She attempts to make Richard jealous by taking a director, who is reminiscent of Woody Allen, to a runway show, but he ends up vomiting on her breasts in front of everyone.

Ultimately, Rebecca realizes she should focus her energy on being with someone who truly loves her, and that turns out to be John, her nerdy, effeminate but caring best male friend who has been supportive of her through the entire ordeal.

Cast

Development

At the time of filming, McCarthy and Asher were married; they divorced the month the film was released. [2]

Release

Box office

Dirty Love opened theatrically on September 23, 2005, in 44 venues and earned $23,281 in its opening weekend. [3] The film ended its run two weeks later, on October 6, 2005, having grossed a mere $36,099 in the domestic box office. [1]

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 6% of 31 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 2.8/10.The website's consensus reads: "The laugh-free Dirty Love is a comedy dead zone -- it's aggressively crude and shoddily constructed." [4] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 9 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike". [5]

Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave a rare zero-star rating and said it was the third-worst film of 2005. In his written review, he stated, "Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent." [6]

Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave the film 0/5 stars, writing: "Even by the standards of its bottom-feeding genre, 'Dirty Love' clings to the gutter like a rat in garbage." [7]

Jeremy C. Fox of Pajiba highlighted ironic enjoyment of the film, stating, "Dirty Love is in the worst possible taste. It has crossed the Himalayas of bad taste and come out the other side. And for that reason, if no other, I kinda love it." He concludes, "The response to Dirty Love says less about the movie than it does the bullying, herd-following nature of most movie critics." [8] Oz of eFilmCritic gave the film 3/5 and said "Dirty Love is a surprisingly good effort that will fall short only because of poor direction, poor editing, and the stigma of the lead having only previously been involved in crap." [9]

Awards and honors

AwardCategoryRecipientResult
Golden Raspberry Awards [10] Worst Picture Won
Worst Director John Mallory Asher Won
Worst Actress Jenny McCarthy Won
Worst Supporting Actress Carmen Electra Nominated
Worst Screenplay Jenny McCarthyWon
Worst Screen Couple Jenny McCarthy and "anyone dumb enough to befriend or date her"Nominated
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards [11] Worst PictureNominated
Worst ActressJenny McCarthyNominated
Worst Supporting ActressCarmen ElectraNominated
Most Painfully Unfunny ComedyNominated
Most Annoying Fake Accent (Female)Carmen ElectraNominated

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Dirty Love (2005)". Box Office Mojo . Internet Movie Database. October 7, 2005. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
  2. ↑ "The John Asher and Jenny McCarthy Divorce". recordssitereview.com. Retrieved October 2, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Weekend Box Office Results for September 23-25, 2005". Box Office Mojo . Internet Movie Database. September 26, 2005. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Dirty Love (2005)". Rotten Tomatoes . Fandango Media . Retrieved June 23, 2021.
  5. ↑ "Dirty Love reviews". Metacritic . CBS Interactive . Retrieved January 14, 2016.
  6. ↑ Ebert, Roger (September 23, 2005). "Dirty Love". Chicago Sun-Times . Retrieved August 17, 2007.
  7. ↑ Holden, Stephen (September 23, 2005). "FILM IN REVIEW; Dirty Love". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved February 20, 2022.
  8. ↑ Fox, Jeremy C. (May 12, 2006). "Dirty Love". Pajiba. Archived from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  9. ↑ Parry, Chris (January 25, 2005). "Movie Review - Dirty Love". eFilmCritic. Archived from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  10. ↑ 26th Annual Golden Raspberry (Razzie©) Award "Winners", archived from the original on July 5, 2008, retrieved August 16, 2007
  11. ↑ "2005 Stinkers Awards Announced". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 23, 2019.
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