Meet Monica Velour

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Meet Monica Velour

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2011

1h 37m

Comedy

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An awkward teen (Dustin Ingram) makes a road trip to see his favorite porn star (Kim Cattrall) in person and finds that reality is much different than fantasy.

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Philip Wilding

Empire Magazine

Beautifully acted, it's a tender love story with one or two belly laughs.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 14, 2011

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Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Pretty good performance, awfully lame movie.

Rated: 2/4

May 13, 2011

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Linda Barnard

Toronto Star

Had first-time director Keith Bearden been as devoted to keeping Meet Monica Velour on track as he did to coming up with punderful porn flick names, he could have had a satisfying dark comedy on his hands.

Rated: 2/4

May 12, 2011

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Ross Ruediger

Bullz-Eye.com

From a plot standpoint, there isn't much that's remarkable about it, yet its two central figures are so honestly drawn that they make up for any predictability along the way.

Rated: 3.5/5

Aug 13, 2011

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Brian Orndorf

BrianOrndorf.com

Blessed with a promising concept for a dark comedy, "Meet Monica Velour" would rather tug heartstrings or script repetitive behavior from derivative characters.

Rated: C-

Aug 4, 2011

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Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

Enjoyable coming-of-age comedy drama with an engagingly off-beat script, some appealing production design and two terrific central performances from Kim Cattrall and Dustin Ingram.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 24, 2011

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mark g

The character Tobe is so uneven and unbelievable in so many scenes that the movie becomes strained. In the end, not that strong of story and cliched

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

10/16/25

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Zane J

At once wonderful and beautiful with incredible acting and a sentimental story and a hopelessly depressing look at the nuances of pornographic American life. My only real complaint was that the ending was overly long and melodramatic, erasing an element of the emotion established by Monica and Tobe's heartbreaking romance.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/07/25

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Extremely low budget Indie about a teenager in love with an aged former porn star. While occasionally reminiscent of Napoleon Dynamite, "Meet Monica Velour" is much more serious, even in its dark humor. While it isn't a bad movie, it isn't particularly good either. The performance of Kim Cattrall is actually pretty good and a welcome change from her "Sex and the City" typecast she's been saddled with the past decade. Yeah, this film may not seem like much of a departure from the type of character she's been playing for a long time, but it did give her a chance to be more raw and serious. Definitely worth watching at least once.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Not a bad idea but fairly slow.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Meet Monica Velour: What a weird, contrived and ultimately sweet movie. Circumstances lead Tobe, a bad "Napoleon Dynamite" knockoff, to rural Indiana, where his vintage porn star crush now resides in a trailer. Yes, the premise is ridiculous, but Tobe's goofy likability and Kim Cattrall's spot-on portrait of a down-on-her-luck, washed up porn star is so jaw-droppingly good, and the film's last 20 minutes so charming, that it delivers the perfect happy ending.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/14/23

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Extremely low budget Indie about a teenager in love with an aged former porn star. While occasionally reminiscent of Napoleon Dynamite, "Meet Monica Velour" is much more serious, even in its dark humor. While it isn't a bad movie, it isn't particularly good either. The performance of Kim Cattrall is actually pretty good and a welcome change from her "Sex and the City" typecast she's been saddled with the past decade. Yeah, this film may not seem like much of a departure from the type of character she's been playing for a long time, but it did give her a chance to be more raw and serious. Definitely worth watching at least once.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Synopsis

An awkward teen (Dustin Ingram) makes a road trip to see his favorite porn star (Kim Cattrall) in person and finds that reality is much different than fantasy.

Director: Keith Bearden
Producer: Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz
Screenwriter: Keith Bearden
Distributor: Anchor Bay
Production Co: Gilbert Films
Rating: R (Nudity|Language|Some Drug Use|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 8, 2011, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 9, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $31.6K
Runtime: 1h 37m

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