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Amy's Orgasm
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Amy's Orgasm reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 36 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
7.1 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Julie Davis, Nick Chinlund, Jeff Cesario, Mitchell Whitfield, Jennifer Bransford, Caroline Aaron, and Mark Brown

The comic story of how Amy (Davis), an Ivy League-educated self-help author, who espouses the virtues of celibacy and falls for a vulgar, womanizing DJ (Chinlund).


GENRE(S): Romance  
WRITTEN BY: Julie Davis  
DIRECTED BY: Julie Davis  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: December 10, 2002 
Video: December 10, 2002 
Theatrical: August 23, 2002 
RUNNING TIME: 85 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

Audience Choice Award, 2001 Santa Barbara Film Festival; Audience Award, Laguna Beach Film Festival; Audience Award, Lake Placid Film Festival

What The Critics Said

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70
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Julie Davis' story is fresh and amusing.
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63
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Its bawdy honesty eventually gives way to convention, sentimentality and a frustratingly silly ending.
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60
Village Voice Michael Atkinson
Davis has energy, but she doesn't bother to make her heroine's book sound convincing, the gender-war ideas original, or the comic scenes fly. Instead, the film is buttressed by song montages and jokey chapter titles.
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50
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The orgasm, it turns out, is low on the list of Amy's issues. The title is faked.
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50
Film Threat Eric Campos
Will strike a chord with people having mid-life love crises. Maybe for them, this film will stand as a sign that love is out there and it will prevail. As any other type of audience goes, I don’t think they’ll find that this love works.
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50
The New York Times Dave Kehr
This movie is Ms. Davis's fourth film as a director, and she has a bright, chipper style that keeps things moving, while never quite managing to connect her wish-fulfilling characters to the human race. Like someone who smiles too much, Amy's Orgasm seems rather sad at heart.
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40
TV Guide Ken Fox
Davis not only wrote and directed the film but edited it as well, all of which is no mean feat. Too bad she couldn't have lent some of her own gumption and self-assurance to her pathetic heroine.
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30
LA Weekly Paul Malcolm
It's supposed to be post-feminist breezy but ends up as tedious as the chatter of parrots raised on Oprah.
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25
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
There's definitely room for a female Woody Allen, an accolade garnered by a previous film. However, Amy's Orgasm is chirpy, shrill and coarse, more in the vein of one of Allen's more depressed periods.
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25
Boston Globe Erin Meister
Julie Davis, tries desperately to fill (Woody)Allen's Coke-bottle glasses, but it fails. Miserably.
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20
Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
There's a bright spot in the form of Amy's publicist (screen veteran Aaron), a salty, whiskey-voiced lesbian; it's a pity the movie isn't about her.
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20
New Times (L.A.) Jean Oppenheimer
There is something distinctly self-satisfied about Amy's Orgasm that rubs the viewer the wrong way. The film should come with a warning label: Vanity project ahead!

What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 7.1 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Sken D. gave it a10:
Hilarious, intelligent, full of wisdom!

Kevin H. gave it a10:
Sexy and smart, a real gem.

Tony b gave it a1:
Silly and senseless junk.

Julie S. gave it a 10:
Hysterical and original.

Jim S. gave it a 10:
A truly excellent movie.

Jessica L. gave it a 9:
So funny! And very realistic! I am looking for quotes about relationships and men and looking for them in this movie. The only thing that could've been changed was the length of the movie.. A little drawn out.

David S. gave it a 10:
I just saw this movie on the "small" screen. I loved it...but then, I am a romantic at heart. I hope Ms. Davis will keep writing and directing, but most importantly, staring in roles in which we can see her soon. Thanks!

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