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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Salesrank: 29701
Released: March 13, 2007 |
| Our Price: $3.25 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
The Pleasure Drivers lays out three separate interconnected stories involving an adulterous therapist, a young sociopath call girl, a vicious lesbian hit woman, a white trash kidnapper, and a brain-damaged ex-cult guru. Described as funny, sexy, edgy and dangerous, The Pleasure Drivers energetically explores the dark side of Los Angeles and how it gleefully relates to the gasoline of libido.
Features: Wide Screen Presentation
Description of The Pleasure Drivers:
Considering that Andrzej Sekula, director of The Pleasure Drivers, was Quentin Tarantino's cinematographer on Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, it's not too surprising that this 2005 film sometimes echoes the latter's approach. Indeed, were it not for the fact that the story makes little sense, the dialogue isn't funny, the characters are poorly drawn, and the acting is almost uniformly sub-par, you might think this was the work of Tarantino himself. As it is, Sekula has made a movie that clearly values style over substance, achieving a modicum of the former and almost none of the latter. Screenwriter Adam Haynes' story revolves primarily around a low-life "caregiver" (Lauren Holly) tending to a mentally unstable young man (Angelo Spizzirri) whose father, some kind of cult leader, has been less than forthcoming with the financial support she depends on; her solution is to kidnap the kid's equally weird sister (Steffany Huckaby). Meanwhile, a full-of-himself professor-therapist (Angus MacFadyen) who constantly whispers Freudian drivel into a tape recorder finds himself rejected by his wife and glommed on to by an oversexed student (Lacy Chabert). These folks, along with "a vicious lesbian hit woman" (no, really), come together somewhere in the Southern California desert, where the film mercifully comes to a close. Sekula favors moody lighting and odd camera angles, the better to illuminate a cast of scenery-chewing, unlikable characters drifting through a tale that will intrigue almost no one. The cover blurb notes that The Pleasure Drivers has been "described as funny, sexy, edgy and dangerous." Maybe so, but that description must have come from someone who didn't actually see it. --Sam Graham
The Pleasure Drivers Reviews:
Good to the halfway mark 
2009-01-02 - The first half of this movie is well-done: good acting, good direction, surprising dialogue and surprising changes of fortune. The movie fell apart for me midway through when two of the main characters get into an argument following an unconsummated adult encounter in a hotel room. Their argument is bitter, nearly endless, and makes you dislike the more spiteful of the two characters intensely.
The first half of the movie balances entertainment and realism well. The second half of the movie loses the balance and is a chore to watch, primarily as one of the main characters, a college instructor, becomes whining, depressive, and intolerable.
What the heck did I just watch? 
2007-04-30 - Three seperate stories seemingly unconnected all come together in this delightfully awful rat crap of a movie. Decent names make up the cast... but this is a prime example of instead of getting a nice casserole, where the cast meshes well with each other, you get peanut butter on steak with brussel spouts rinse with listerine and chase down with orange juice.
Billy Zane is completely useless as the preacher's lieutenant. Lauren Holly... I have no idea... she's definitely trashy.. but the performance is still crap... she looked like she wanted to jump MeatLoaf's bones in the trailer... which was equally creepy. Angus has gotten waaaay FAT. He was a sad mix of Dr. Frasier Crane and Jeff Goldblum.(Jurassic/Independence Day performances) All the vocabulary and idiosyncracies of both and none of the positive attributes. What a crap character. The single redeeming performance of this movie was Lacey Chabert. Her character was a simple, one dimensional slut, and she played it really well. (Smokin' bod didn't hurt either) All the other performances were completely forgettable. The story is, at best, unfinished and more accurately hap-hazard and lame. 1 star, and that primarily goes Lacey's performance. I've been subjected to worse.
But there's one saving grace!
2007-04-03 - I'll level with you...this is a lame movie with mediocre acting & totally uninteresting characters. It starts out strong & shows some promise but, just give it another 10 minutes....your thumb will find the eject button. HOWEVER, there is one saving grace....her name is Lacey Chabert! Trust me, guys (and girls who like other girls), you should really rent this flick just to see the delicious Lacey in rare form! This adorable morsel (who was age 23 at the time of filming in 2005), absolutely has one of THE Best figures I've ever seen!! Unfortunately, we don't get to see all of her (which is seriously weak for an unrated film!) but, our girl does juuuust fine. Skip to chapters 9 & 10, and see if you agree. ;)
Lacey Chabert is Dirty Dirty Dirty in this Movie! 
2007-03-27 - This movie is off the planet! I watched it twice the first time I saw it. Lacey Chabert is sooo dirty in this movie. She snorts coke in a car and screams "I'm so wet! I'm so wet!" as she prepares to golden shower the seat. And that's before she starts getting really raunchy at the Big Cock Inn, complete with giant plaster rooster. Lacey Chabert was the best thing in Mean Girls and this is her best movie yet. This movie has lesbians, cults, lesbians, drugs, lesbians with guns, Meatloaf with drugs and a gas station where the clerks are Debbie Downer and Jay from Clerks. I'm not returning this to the video store until my own copy arrives in the mail. Whoever thought this up must be smoking the same crack that Lauren Holly smokes in this amazing movie.
Something different - like Pulp Fiction was .......... You decide? 
2007-03-25 - You can see Andrzej Sekula's presence. I enjoyed the familar faces in this somewhat twisted film. Is it worth watching? Yes, I enjoyed it. I'm looking forward to more movies from these folks. Someday I would like to meet Meatloaf.
