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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h

Summary In order to avoid an X rating, 40 minutes of gay S&M footage was rumored to be cut and destroyed from the 1980 film, “Cruising.” Inspired by the mythology of this controversial film, filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews collaborate to imagine their own lost footage. Amid the backdrop of a frenzied film set, actor Val Lauren relucta...

Directed By: James Franco, Travis Mathews

Written By: Travis Mathews

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h

Interior. Leather Bar.

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
47
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary In order to avoid an X rating, 40 minutes of gay S&M footage was rumored to be cut and destroyed from the 1980 film, “Cruising.” Inspired by the mythology of this controversial film, filmmakers James Franco and Travis Mathews collaborate to imagine their own lost footage. Amid the backdrop of a frenzied film set, actor Val Lauren relucta...

Directed By: James Franco, Travis Mathews

Written By: Travis Mathews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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27% Negative
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Mar 4, 2014
A sly conceptual coup d’art and a deeply sincere exploration of masculinity and its discontents, with a little hot sex thrown in.
By Manohla Dargis FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 3, 2014
Franco has finally delivered a side project that does at least some justice to his eclectic artistic ambitions.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW

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Coxmjc23
Mar 11, 2023
I really loved it and enjoyed it and even bought it so I'm happy to say great watch and great scenes maybe even trying it some time the only complaint is James Franco could have joined in with the scenes and show a side we never seen before!!! Highly Recommended!!!
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katezoe
May 12, 2014
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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63
Mar 4, 2014
With Travis Mathews's help, James Franco's persona forms a kind of symmetry: 1980's dubious homophobia against 2013's risible homophilia.
By Eric Henderson FULL REVIEW
60
Mar 6, 2014
We see brief, graphic shots of naked actors performing sexual acts. But it’s the conversations about what those depictions represent that truly provoke.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
40
Mar 4, 2014
Brief yet underdeveloped, Interior. Leather Bar. has a faux-documentary vibe about it.
By Joshua Rothkopf FULL REVIEW
20
Dec 23, 2013
A partly authentic, partly scripted behind-the-scenes featurette that never quite conveys the star’s “high/curious” interest in all things taboo.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
10
Jan 2, 2014
It's a particularly risible nothing whose premise alone betrays the paucity of Franco's imagination and wit.
By Calum Marsh FULL REVIEW
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foxgrove
Jan 3, 2014
This documentary based around the supposedly cut 40 minutes from William Friedkin's controversial 1980 film 'Cruising', is a bizarre if intriguing proposition. We never fully comprehend why actor James Franco would want to partake in such a film, but he is certainly to be admired for his diligence and determination in what many considered a foolhardy project for the A lister. The film fascinatingly touches on his involvement and explores the possibility of repercussions affecting his Hollywood career. After all one has to admit this is a long way from Disney's Oz. The film does raise many very pertinent points about human conditioning and sexuality which are definitely topics for debate. However, because of its subject matter and some explicit sexual material, it will certainly have a very limited audience. Ultimately, and in all probability, it will find itself preaching to the converted. Oddly, though, it was meant to be a film about the afore mentioned cut 40 minutes. Well, we don't actually get to see that film. One is finally left feeling that, for all the little nuggets of thought provoking conversation raised, in the final analysis the resultant enterprise is somewhat redundant even though it is eminently watchable.
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kos2
Mar 23, 2014
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LowbrowCinema
Mar 22, 2015
More premise than film, INTERIOR: LEATHER BAR seems to want to shock but it can't. There's simply nothing there. The less said the better about this total misfire made by people with very little on their mind other than to riff on other people's far better works. See CRUISING instead. It may be a mess, but CRUISING is also some kind of masterpiece of its time and unlike INTERIOR has too much on its mind rather than too little or almost nothing.
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Production Company RabbitBandini Productions
Release Date Jan 3, 2014
Duration 1 h
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.facebook.com/InteriorLeatherBar
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Awards

Festival Mix Brasil
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
La Cabina Valencia International Medium-Length Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Nomination

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