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  • 2011
  • R
  • Destination Films
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • Destination Films
  • 1 h 44 m

Summary Recently retired from the adult film industry, superstar Elektra Luxx is pregnant with the child of late rock star Nick Chapel. She is trying to make ends meet by teaching a community college sex education class aimed at housewives when a figure from her past, flight attendant Cora, approaches her with a proposition. In exchange for the ...

Directed By: Sebastian Gutierrez

Written By: Sebastian Gutierrez

  • 2011
  • R
  • Destination Films
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2011
  • R
  • Destination Films
  • 1 h 44 m

Elektra Luxx

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
50
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary Recently retired from the adult film industry, superstar Elektra Luxx is pregnant with the child of late rock star Nick Chapel. She is trying to make ends meet by teaching a community college sex education class aimed at housewives when a figure from her past, flight attendant Cora, approaches her with a proposition. In exchange for the ...

Directed By: Sebastian Gutierrez

Written By: Sebastian Gutierrez

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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58% Mixed
7 Reviews
8% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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58% Mixed
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8% Negative
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85
Mar 9, 2011
The picture is rambunctiously affectionate; Guiterrez may go for the broad joke, but never the cheap one.
By Stephanie Zacharek FULL REVIEW
67
Mar 24, 2011
It is an utterly unique and highly ambitious project that isn't afraid to veer wildly from witty, risqué comedy to heavy emotional melodrama, often in the same sequence.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 14, 2011
Despite the fine thesping seen in this innocuous piece of fluff, the whole amounts to less than the sum of its parts.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 8, 2011
Elektra Luxx's episodic structure and candy-apple compositions make for a good time, even if Gutierrez lacks the narrative and syntactical muscle to pull off the sex-positive Tarantino-esque farce he seems to be after.
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40
Mar 12, 2011
A charmingly hardened Carla Gugino reprises her role as the titular porn star, still pregnant and now coping with retirement.
By Mark Keizer FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 10, 2011
Elektra Luxx has some scattered witty notions, but it is not funny.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
25
Mar 11, 2011
The movie, a sequel to 2009's much more sprightly and amusing indie "Women in Trouble," seems to be reaching for Robert Altman territory. Instead of offering many intriguing stories, though, it can't come up with even one.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
6.5
55% Positive
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27% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
6.5
55% Positive
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27% Mixed
3 Ratings
18% Negative
2 Ratings

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Production Company Gato Negro Films
Release Date Mar 11, 2011
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Trouble has a name.
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Awards

SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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