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Adored: Diary of a Male Porn Star

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Adored: Diary of a Male Porn Star reviews
28
5.1 User Score:

Generally unfavorable reviews

Based on 11 critic reviews
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Based on 6 votes
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama  |  Foreign

Written by: Marco Filiberti

Directed by: Marco Filiberti

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 2, 2004
DVD: November 2, 2004

Running Time: 105 minutes, Color

Origin: Italy

Language(s): Italian (with English subtitles)

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Marco Filiberti, Urbano Barberini, Alessandra Acciai, Rosalinda Celentano, Francesca d'Aloja, Erika Blanc, Claudio Vanni, Luigi Diberti, and Massimo Tellini

Italian porn icon Riki Kandinsky discovers the humanity burning beneath his legendary flesh.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

75

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

A vanity project so preposterous it deserves to become an instant camp hit.

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50

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

This skillfully made Italian heart-tugger was a success on home ground. Its star, Marco Filiberti, in an audacious writing and directing debut, has lots on his mind and much in his heart, and as a filmmaker displays a Douglas Sirkian flair for finding substance in melodrama.

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40

The Hollywood Reporter Sheri Linden

Tries to be too many things, none very convincingly: plea for tolerance, docu-style character study, old-fashioned weepie.

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40

TV Guide Ken Fox

It can make for entertainingly silly viewing, but it should come as no surprise that the film's plea for tolerance and unexpectedly tragic ending -- an unfortunate throwback to the Dark Ages of gays in films -- rings equally hollow.

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30

The New York Times Dave Kehr

He's (Marco Filiberti) his own best audience, and Adored is best left to his own enjoyment.

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30

Variety Deborah Young

Slipping from fantasy to soap opera without any authorial control, pic's best hope is to be recognized as some kind of cult movie of badness.

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30

LA Weekly Robert Abele

This feeble comedy-tragedy has Sirkian aspirations but never misses an opportunity to settle for being flesh-friendly gay-film-festival fodder. This is a vanity project, not so much acted as posed.

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25

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

Not only is Adored amateurish and mawkish even by the standards of American "gaysploitation" cinema, it's weirdly shy about showing nudity and sex.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle John McMurtrie

This clumsy, self-indulgent film veers from comedy to tragedy and is told in flashbacks, with treacly diary entries and unconvincing "testimonies" from friends providing a window into the past.

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20

Village Voice Ed Halter

The film's witlessness keeps any satirical potential submerged well below soap opera levels. Filiberti's self-casting exacerbates this already shoddy melodrama: Frequent come-hither stares beaming from his patently sub-marquee mug provide one too many non-ironic "Zoolander" moments.

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20

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

Adored stands at the crossroads where Telemundo and beefcake magazines collide, but for strangers to that intersection, the film's camp value is exceeded only by its tedium.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 5.1 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Deborah gave it a10:
I cried and was touched by the content. Just needing to be respected and accepted for who you are.

Marco M. gave it a9:
Sweet, entertaining, unique, intriguing, well acted, and a refreshing change of subject from the typical boring Hollywood script writing.

Norm L. gave it a 0:
Your ratings don't go low enough! I vote a -5.

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