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  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 41 m

Summary In high school Cassie Cranston (Jewel Staite) was slut-shamed out of the wholesome and repressed town of Beaver’s Ridge following a humiliating attempt at losing her virginity. Now, years later, a big city sex columnist, Cassie returns home to bury her mother and finds a chance for revenge when her prudish childhood nemesis insists she h...

Directed By: Jeremy LaLonde

Written By: Jeremy LaLonde

  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 41 m
  • 2016
  • TV-MA
  • Gravitas Ventures
  • 1 h 41 m

How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town

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Summary In high school Cassie Cranston (Jewel Staite) was slut-shamed out of the wholesome and repressed town of Beaver’s Ridge following a humiliating attempt at losing her virginity. Now, years later, a big city sex columnist, Cassie returns home to bury her mother and finds a chance for revenge when her prudish childhood nemesis insists she h...

Directed By: Jeremy LaLonde

Written By: Jeremy LaLonde

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May 13, 2016
The film ends up as a heartwarmingly raunchy celebration of unabashed and diverse sexuality without shame or hang ups. And somewhere along the way, writer-director Jeremy LaLonde manages to squeeze in some romance too, turning this sex comedy into a rom-com.
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May 13, 2016
All of this is sporadically funny and cheerfully tasteless in its low-budget way, but it’s also unevenly acted, a bit overlong and never quite as daring as it seems to want to be.
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Feb 5, 2016
How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town emerges as surprisingly tame fluff, a modestly amusing trifle scarcely saucier than those wink-wink naughty farces that were staples of the ’70s dinner-theater circuit.
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May 13, 2016
Despite its provocative title, How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town isn’t particularly sexy. More troubling, it’s not very funny either.
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May 9, 2016
The ingenuity of writer-director Jeremy LaLonde's film ends with its title.
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Production Company 2005 Films, Neophyte Productions
Release Date May 13, 2016
Duration 1 h 41 m
Rating TV-MA
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Tagline What's a little sex between friends?
Website https://www.facebook.com/pages/How-to-Plan-an-Orgy-in-a-Small-Town/609509555831070?ref_type=bookmark
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Awards

Canadian Filmmakers' Festival
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
Canadian Comedy Awards
• 1 Nomination

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