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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 74802
Released: April 13, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Gary, a young hustler, finds a kindred spirit in Valentino, a bisexual adult film star to whom Gary is instantly attracted. Standing in their way is Valentino's dedicated girlfriend. They put aside their differences when Valentino is diagnosed with AIDS, creating a makeshift family to mutually love and support him to the tragic end. Stars: Salma Hayek (Frida, Dogma, Once Upon a Time in Mexico), Vincent D’Onofrio (The Cell, Men in Black), Ethan Hawke (Reality Bites, Before Sunrise), Thomas Jayne (Magnolia, Bookie Nights).
Description of The Velocity of Gary:
Life in New York City, apparently, ain't what it used to be. In director Dan Ireland's "slice of life," Vincent D'Onofrio is a former porn star named Valentino (how's that for subtle metaphor?) who is slowly dying of AIDS. That's the least of your worries. He's also one third of a symbiotic ménage à trois that includes waitress girlfriend Mary Carmen (an obnoxious Salma Hayek) and fetishistic gigolo boyfriend Gary (Thomas Jane, strutting like Madonna on valium). The movie comes across like some Midwestern housewife's salacious idea of what life is like "on the edge"--teeming with drugs, wild dancing, and drag queens. There's even a deaf, transgendered, Patsy Cline-wannabe who, no kidding, gets hit by a car while trying to call for an ambulance. Ireland and screenwriter James Still make such an embarrassing show of being outrageous that it's almost offensive; everybody is so busy being dangerously fabulous that nobody is even remotely human. --Steve Wiecking
The Velocity of Gary Reviews:
The Velocity of Gary 
2009-05-01 - The Velocity of Gary is a "must-have now" for fans of Vincent D'Onofrio's work (especially since the movie has been DISCONTINUED). His performance is what one would expect from an actor of his caliber - unexpected and brilliant. Thomas Jane, and Salma Hayek are perfect compliments; there are also some surprise stars such as Ethan Hawke and Olivia d'Abo("Nicole Wallace" for Criminal Intent fans). I've read negative reviews mentioning the movie's lack of realism; to those people I say: "Pooh to you". There are some SLIGHTLY "whimsical" moments sprinkled about, especially in reference to the "drag twins", but the movie, on the whole, is by no means unrealistic in it's view of a slice of the contra-culture. "Valentino"(D'onofrio) is quite sexy, as is "Gary"(Jane): so you have your eye candy (for both sexes), not to mention a seriously annoying "Mary Carmen"(Hayek) who's sexiness is a little downplayed but still in evidence. A great movie.The Velocity of Gary
i love this movie 
2007-12-13 - YOU MUST LOVE VINCENT... TO WATCH THIS MOVIE. IT IS NOT FOR THE HOMOPHOBE.
THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS IS MOVING AND BELIEVABLE. I WAS ANGRY I LAUGHED I CRIED AND WILL WATCH THIS MOVIE AGAIN AND AGAIN. ITS A RARE FIND TRULY A HIDDEN TREASURE FOR ANY VINCENT FAN.
real
2007-07-02 - This picture was like being tarnsported back to 1974-76 when I was bottomed-out and people in the Village saved me. These characters seemed alive and beautiful and touching. It hurts not to be loved, but lovers have no real choice. Sometimes being annoyed or selfish or distracted can do real harm, but again there is no real decision to hurt involved.
Why Is It Named After Gary? 
2005-10-28 - A good cast wasted. Poorly written, filled with every cliche of "life on the edge", the film never gives depth to the three characters whose lives are so deeply intertwined. Their feelings for each other are never illuminated, so we don't know why they are together. They yell and fight and act outageously, but they give us no reason to care about them. For this I blame not the actors, but the director who seems to have no idea how real life happens or how real people talk to each other.
Salma Hayek comes off the best, though her charcter is unrelentingly irritating. Vincent D'Onofrio is good as always, a very intelligent actor. Thomas Jane is pouty and intense, but has the least well-written character to work with.
And why is the movie named after him, when the center of this drama is not Gary (Thomas Jane) but Valentino (Vincent D'Onofrio)?
One of the worst movies ever made...yes, I'm serious 
2005-05-24 - Where to begin? Cliched. Pretentious. Flat. Static. Maudlin. Melodramatic. Homophobic. And finally, just plain BORING. Start with an over-the-top caricature of a deaf-mute Patsy Cline young drag queen arriving the big city, pile on cardboard "colorful" characters like typical AIDS patient, porno star, and loud-mouthed Latina hot mamna, and whaddya get? An amateur film populated with some of the most UNLIKABLE, UNATTRACTIVE characters ever, all spewing some of the unbelievably BAD dialogue ever written - and to think the (formerly talented) director made THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD also with D'Onofrio? Go figure. Nice cover art, though.
