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  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary 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)

Directed By: Caveh Zahedi

Written By: Caveh Zahedi

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • IFC Films
  • 1 h 38 m

I Am a Sex Addict

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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User Score Mixed or Average Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary 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)

Directed By: Caveh Zahedi

Written By: Caveh Zahedi

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
62
67% Positive
12 Reviews
28% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 18 Critic Reviews
62
67% Positive
12 Reviews
28% Mixed
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6% Negative
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100
There's no other film like it. It's embarrassingly frank and self-revealing, sometimes funny, sometimes creepy, sometimes both.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
63
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.
By Michael Wilmington FULL REVIEW
63
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.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
50
What this is remains mysterious after a single viewing, but not so mysterious as to inspire a second.
By Carina Chocano FULL REVIEW
25
Now that even Woody Allen has stopped making "Woody Allen movies," you would think that wannabes would move on, too.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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18% Negative
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Production Company Reinventing the Wheel
Release Date Apr 5, 2006
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.iamasexaddictthemovie.com/
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Awards

Gotham Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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