Shortbus

5.00
    Shortbus
    2006

    Synopsis

    In post-9/11 New York City, an eclectic group of citizens find their lives entangled, personally, romantically, and sexually, at Shortbus, an underground Brooklyn salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.

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    Cast

    • Paul DawsonJames
    • Lindsay BeamishSeverin
    • Adam HardmanJesse
    • Sook-Yin LeeSofia
    • Raphael BarkerRob
    • Peter SticklesCaleb
    • PJ DeBoyJamie
    • David PittuJacuzzi Hunter
    • Jeff WhittyJacuzzi Hunted
    • Mickey CottrellDead Man in the Jacuzzi

    Recommendations

    • 80

      L.A. Weekly

      The boldest provocation of Mitchell’s sweet, tender and gently funny film may be its exuberant celebration of community and togetherness at a cultural moment rife with fatalism and disconnect.
    • 75

      TV Guide Magazine

      A darkly comic trifle that follows in the footsteps of such films as Catherine Breillat's "Romance" (2000), "The Brown Bunny" (2003) and Michael Winterbottom's "9 Songs" (2004) by incorporating hard-core sex into a nonpornographic narrative.
    • 75

      Premiere

      Mitchell's energy and occasional ingenuity make Shortbus an engaging viewing experience, provided you can stomach it.
    • 75

      New York Post

      Mitchell's adventurous, big- hearted, pansexual mosaic of New Yorkers looking for love and orgasms (not necessarily in that order), is a rare example of a nonporn film that doesn't exploit graphic sex as a gimmick.
    • 70

      Village Voice

      There's something refreshingly frisky and celebratory about Shortbus that offsets its flaws. It's a triple-X midnight movie with a heart of squarest gold.
    • 70

      The New York Times

      An ode to the joy and sweet release of sex, the film manages to be a sincere, modest political venture that finds humor where you might least expect it, notably in a ménage à trois featuring a cheeky rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner."
    • 60

      Variety

      Unquestionably the most sexually graphic American narrative feature ever made outside the realm of the porn industry, John Cameron Mitchell's ambitious attempt to merge his characters' active sexual lives with more conventional emotional content is playfully and provocatively entertaining for roughly the first half, but loses staying power thereafter when investment in the uncompelling characters' problems is requested.
    • 58

      Entertainment Weekly

      Shortbus is chipper, it's fresh, it emits a distinct musk of controversy. I'll take the longbus.

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