Casual Sex?

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Casual Sex?

R

1988

1h 37m

Romance

Comedy

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Melissa (Victoria Jackson) and Stacy (Lea Thompson) decide that casual relationships have become too dangerous in the wake of AIDS, so they opt to visit a resort, where each finds a man who piques her interest. For Melissa, it's Jamie (Jerry Levine), a spa employee with whom she experiences passion for the first time. Meanwhile, Stacy is drawn to a down-and-out musician. Through it all, Vinny (Andrew "Dice" Clay), a single man from New Jersey, is there to offer friendship and consolation.

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Michael Wilmington

Los Angeles Times

04/15/2020

If the script is dubious, the direction matches it. The cast is less directed than exploited.

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Variety Staff

Variety

04/15/2020

With the late 1980s sensibility, their sex conversations are peppered with the girls' finding their own identities in relationships with men outside the sex act. Is it mature? Yes. Is it funny? No.

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Tom Charity

Time Out

06/24/2006

After a variety of sketchy farcical/romantic complications, the movie settles for a rather sentimental epilogue, but it remains surprisingly engaging.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

01/19/2021

2/4

...a perpetually sluggish comedy...

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Jack Garner

Gannett News Service

04/15/2020

1/4

Casual Sex? is a casual mess. It's casual in that it is shallow, uninvolving, superficial and leaves no lasting impression, and a mess in that it's ... a mess.

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People Staff

People Magazine

04/15/2020

Only the "Vin Man," a beast from the East named Vinny and played as a macho send-up by comic Andrew Dice Clay, lightens up the proceedings.

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Synopsis

Melissa (Victoria Jackson) and Stacy (Lea Thompson) decide that casual relationships have become too dangerous in the wake of AIDS, so they opt to visit a resort, where each finds a man who piques her interest. For Melissa, it's Jamie (Jerry Levine), a spa employee with whom she experiences passion for the first time. Meanwhile, Stacy is drawn to a down-and-out musician. Through it all, Vinny (Andrew "Dice" Clay), a single man from New Jersey, is there to offer friendship and consolation.

Director: Genevieve Robert
Producer: Ilona Herzberg, Sheldon Kahn
Screenwriter: Judy Toll, Wendy Goldman
Production Co: Universal/Universal Int
Rating: R
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 19, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $9.2M
Runtime: 1h 37m
Sound Mix: Surround

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