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I Am a Sex Addict

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 18 critic reviews
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Based on 6 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy
Written by: Caveh Zahedi
Directed by: Caveh Zahedi
Release Date:
Theatrical: April 5, 2006
DVD: September 12, 2006
Running Time: 98 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Rebecca Lord, Emily Morse, Amanda Henderson, Alexandra Guerineaud, Katarina Fabic, Corinna Chan, Greg Watkins, and Caveh Zahedi
Autobiographical filmmaker Caveh Zahedi has made a cult career of his unabashed willingness to be vulnerable on camera. I Am a Sex Addict, a comic reconstruction of his ten-year struggle with sex addiction, is one of his most ambitious, hilarious confessions yet. (IFC Films)
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What The Critics Said
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
There's no other film like it. It's embarrassingly frank and self-revealing, sometimes funny, sometimes creepy, sometimes both.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Zahedi isn't afraid to put himself out there, even when his thoughts and actions are profoundly unflattering; his self-effacement makes the film a reflection on narcissism and misogyny rather than an exercise in both.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Jim Ridley
Caveh Zahedi's one-of-a-kind movie--a funny, inventive, ground-shifting hybrid of essay film, mea culpa, and pathological real-life romantic farce--aims for truth by wrecking its own verisimilitude.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Zahedi is ruefully funny and savage in his self-exposure.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Although there's nothing funny about addiction, Zahedi - a thin, bug-eyed fellow with the air of an R. Crumb sad sack - brings wit and self-deprecation to his tale of obsession and woe.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Zahedi's search for fulfillment is depleting, like throwing good sex after bad. The more we learn about the hole in his soul, the more vivid his misogamy becomes.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
This deconstructive, minimalist comedy, like his 1990 "A Little Stiff" and 1994 "I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore," re-creates events with the vain self-deprecation of one of his role models, Woody Allen.
Read Full Review >Variety Deborah Young
Hits its stride from the opening scenes and continues hilariously for a while, before declining into more of same. Its undeniable appeal lies in shocking frankness shackled to irony, a combo that should attract indie lovers with psychoanalytic leanings and droll senses of humor.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
Technically, I Am a Sex Addict is a stellar achievement, as it coaxes viewers to accompany Zahedi down avenues of sexual desire that have had little frank exposure on film.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A confessional film that's almost too confessional--is like getting buttonholed by a casual acquaintance at a party and then subjected to a flood of highly intimate revelations that just don't stop.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Zahedi has been compared to Woody Allen, and he shares Allen's neurotic sense of entitlement and navel-gazing fascination with his own sexual peccadilloes. Whether you find either man funny or infuriating depends in large part on whether you identify more with their narcissistic quests for self-knowledge or the collateral damage left in their wakes.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
The way he presents his romantic history is both clever and entertaining, but after a while the story becomes tediously familiar.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
This film is an inevitable product of our age, and enjoyable, right up to whatever your ickiness threshold is.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Nathan Lee
The movie is a minor triumph of sincerity, neatly skirting the pitfalls of narcissism and unexamined misogyny. It never mugs for our good will, only our witness, which it rewards with honesty and wit.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
While some may bail early, those who stay to the end are likely to dwell on Zahedi's unwavering (some would say unrelenting) belief in his own artistry, as well as the film's many funny, quotable lines.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano
What this is remains mysterious after a single viewing, but not so mysterious as to inspire a second.
Read Full Review >The New Yorker Anthony Lane
As for the overriding reason to see the film, that's easy. Lighten Zahedi's complexion, stuff him in a fright wig, and this fellow would be a ringer for Harpo Marx.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
Now that even Woody Allen has stopped making "Woody Allen movies," you would think that wannabes would move on, too.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.1 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Tracy R. gave it a7:
A minor masterpiece of tone.
