The read
Audiences rate it 35 points higher than critics do. It runs a compact 1h 26m.
Synopsis
First-time director Dirk Shafer also penned this raucous "mockumentary," a blend of fact and fiction that re-creates his 1992 reign as Playgirl magazine's Centerfold of the Year. When Shafer chooses to keep the fact that he's gay a secret from the magazine's editors, he finds himself living the ultimate lie -- and incapable of giving female readers what they really want. Will he succumb to his lover's pressures to come out of the closet?
Ratings
IMDb6/10
Rotten Tomatoes25%
Audiences rate it 35 points higher than critics do.
8 audience votes
Key crew
- Dirk ShaferDirector
Cast
- Dirk ShaferDirk
- Mary SteinAngela Lucassy
- Claudette SutherlandTammy Shafer
- Cal BartlettKen Shafer
- Vivian PaxtonVivian
- Michael OrnsteinMike Miller
- Beth BroderickKelly Bound
- Cynthia SzigetiBetty Levy
- Dennis BaileyHowie Diadone
- Charles SloaneEd, the photographer
- Phyllis FranklinDr. Marsha Demarkey
- Bill BrochtrupPledge Cartwright
Themes
mockumentarymale homosexualityin the closetfound footagegay theme