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      Interior. Leather Bar.

      2013 1h 0m Drama LGBTQ+ List
      59% 37 Reviews Tomatometer 28% 500+ Ratings Audience Score An actor reluctantly takes a role in a gay sadomasochism film. Read More Read Less

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      the s Here's a movie about the 40 missions minutes from "Cruise" where none of the 40 minutes they are imagining are included and instead, have a bad documentary about James Franco showing how deep he is and edgy he can be. So basically he hired some gay dudes to do gay stuff while he filmed so he can pretend that it makes him all artsy and stuff. He's not really the Disney prince he plays in movies, he's *really* this deep, edgy artist who thinks a lot. One of the funniest parts is the guy playing Pachino..I had never heard of him and didn't recognize him…was talking about how this role could detail his career. And with no offense to him, he's a bit actor. He had bit roles before and bit roles after this was released. So yeah, people will still hire you for an episode of some random series if you portray Pachino in a documentary about gay bars. Big deal. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Interesting experiment, and conversations, but not enough to make it feel like a film. It's more like an episode of some tv new/culture show. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member James Franco decides to take a journey into a not-so-dark and evil place with a right motive. Why isn't gay sex (or at the very least PG-13/Rated R gay sex) in the mainstream media. He says mid-film conversation with uncomfortable and horrified down to the soul of being in a overly sexualized docu-film/ "Porno" Val Lauren. Ultimately Interior. Leather Bar is random and half-baked with no real message, other's than Franco's will to do it. That being said his take on social norms and other societal issues are rather on point. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member An "art for art's sake" project. But when all is said and what was the point James? Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member good concept loses some in execution. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member A movie about Franco's provocative vision and points nobody actually cares about! I don't believe that ppl are separated by the kind of sex they are having. The world is much different now and ppl are very open minded, so Franco was late... Years ago it would have been a shocking movie. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Amy Taubin Film Comment Magazine Mathews and Franco's collaboration is notable for an almost complete absence of the homophobia in which Cruising is saturated. Aug 28, 2019 Full Review Nathan Lee Film Comment Magazine A movie that continually puzzles over what it is and why it is being made. Apr 21, 2014 Full Review David Lewis San Francisco Chronicle "Interior. Leather Bar." is a Rubik's Cube of a movie, an intriguing, layered puzzle that isn't easily solved. Rated: 3/4 Apr 10, 2014 Full Review David Lamble Bay Area Reporter Palo Alto native James Franco deconstructs the fallout, 30 years later, from the queer protests directed against William Friedkin's inflammatory melodrama about cops and queers, Cruising... Jun 18, 2020 Full Review B. Ruby Rich Film Quarterly [Travis] Matthews made a sophisticated bit of sexual time-travel that allowed Franco to create another bit of self-reflection. Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Has to be one of the most excitingly experimental queer cinematic projects of recent memory. Aug 29, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis An actor reluctantly takes a role in a gay sadomasochism film.
      Director
      James Franco, Travis Mathews
      Screenwriter
      Travis Mathews
      Genre
      Drama, LGBTQ+
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 1, 2017
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $40.9K
      Runtime
      1h 0m
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