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Best friends who long ago accepted the rest of the world’s ridiculousness have their solidarity tested in Antarctica, Keith Bearden’s take on a teen-comedy model that always lives or dies by its stars’ chemistry. He finds that chemistry — albeit in a less high-wattage way than in, say, Booksmart — with the pairing of newcomer Kimie Muroya and Chloë Levine (The Oa). Together, the two bring out the humor in Bearden’s skewed take on contemporary American weirdness without seeming to work for it. The film’s pleasures peter out when the leads are apart for too long, though; and since ...

Best friends who long ago accepted the rest of the world’s ridiculousness have their solidarity tested in Antarctica, Keith Bearden’s take on a teen-comedy model that always lives or dies by its stars’ chemistry. He finds that chemistry — albeit in a less high-wattage way than in, say, Booksmart — with the pairing of newcomer Kimie Muroya and Chloë Levine (The Oa). Together, the two bring out the humor in Bearden’s skewed take on contemporary American weirdness without seeming to work for it. The film’s pleasures peter out when the leads are apart for too long, though; and since ...

The Nacelle Company is teaming with Breaker’s Blockchain Entertainment Studio on the release of Antarctica, a romantic comedy written and directed by Keith Bearden. Starring Chloë Levine, Clea Lewis, Damian Young, and newcomer Kimmie Muroya, the pic will be released sometime later this year.

It’s a story of two life-long best friends that experience a tidal wave of adult pressures and problems as they face down their last year of high school in small-town USA. Will they crack under the societal pressures, or will they triumph over the metaphorical icy tundra they call their late teens?

The deal was negotiated by Anna Roberts of The Nacelle Company and Jake Craven of Breaker.

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Dark Star Pictures has nabbed the North American distribution rights to Climate Of The Hunter, the Mickey Reece-helmed horror film which will screen at the Nightstream...

La Fortaleza’s sales agent is using Breaker’s blockchain technology to track its revenues.

Us-based blockchain-powered streaming platform Breaker, the company behind Alex Winter’s Trust Machine, The Happy Worker, executive-produced by David Lynch, and Rotterdam Tiger title La Fortaleza, has unveiled a slew of new projects.

It has boarded Keith Bearden’s completed Us-set suburban coming of age drama, Antarctica, starring Chloë Levine and Kimie Muroya, backing low-budget Guatemalan drama Luz, and investing in Chinese director Shujun Wei’s Striding In The Wind.

Owned by SingularDTV, Breaker is also involved in a long-gestating TV drama called San Pedro,...

If you’re in the mood for a sad and nostalgic short film to help you get through your Friday afternoon, we’ve got just the thing you’re looking for. Keith Bearden’s short film The Raftman’s Razor debuted at Sundance way back in 2005, but it’s finally made its way to YouTube this month, meaning you can now see it from the comfort of your cubicle. The film tells the bittersweet tale of two young comic fans who become swept away in a comic book entitled The Raftman. Each issue is 30-plus pages featuring a man in a suit floating at sea in a yellow raft. The only action in each issue involves the man shaving with his trusty straight razor while having one profound Zen Koan-esque thought about life. The boys become obsessed with the book and...

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Anchor Bay Films has now released the independent comedy "Meet Monica Velour", on Blu-ray and DVD.

Starring Kim Cattrall ("Sex and the City") as a former adult film star who befriends a young fan, 'Meet Monica Velour' arrives with bonus features including a commentary track by Cattrall (with writer/director Keith Bearden) and amusing deleted scenes :

"...awkward teenager 'Tobe' (Dustin Ingram) sets off on a road trip to meet 'Monica Velour' (Cattrall), his favorite 1980's adult film star, at a rare live appearance hundreds of miles away.

"But instead of the glamorous sexpot portrayed on film, Tobe finds a 49-year-old single mom living in a trailer in rural Indiana, performing at seedy strip clubs to make ends meet. Starry-eyed Tobe, still captivated by his crush, befriends Monica, further complicating her difficult life..."

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Your Weekly Source for the Newest Releases to Blu-Ray Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Agent 8 3/4 (1964)

Directed by: Ralph Thomas

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley

Synopsis: Unemployed Czech-speaking writer Nicholas Whistler thinks he’s got a job visiting Prague for a bit of industrial espionage. In fact he is now in the employ of British Intelligence. His pretty chauffeuse on arrival behind the Iron Curtain, Comrade Simonova, is herself a Czech agent. Just as well she’s immediately attracted to 007′s unwitting replacement. [highdefdigest.com]

Special Features: Unknown.

Armed And Dangerous (1986)

Directed by: Mark L. Lester

Starring: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Meg Ryan, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Dooley, a cop wrongly sacked for corruption, teams up with a useless defense lawyer in their new careers… as security guards. When the two are made fall guys for a robbery at a location they are guarding, the pair begin to investigate corruption within the company and their union.

Title: Meet Monica Velour Directed by: Keith Bearden Starring: Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram, Brian Dennehy, Sam McMurray and Keith David Running time: 97 minutes, Rated R, Available on Blu-Ray Tobe is a typical nerdy high school grad with an odd obsession with a 70′s porn star named Monica Velour. When he finds out she’s going to be headlining at an Indiana strip joint, he takes a road trip in his “weenie” truck for the once in a lifetime chance to meet his fantasy girl. Much to his surprise, she’s aged a bit since her porno career peak; however Tobe is determined to get to know the real Monica Velour and...

"Hit me again, Candypants!" Keith Bearden directs the poignant coming-of-age comedy Meet Monica Velour, which hits Blu-ray and DVD August 16th. The movie stars Dustin Ingram as a recent high school graduate who seeks out and befriends a fading porn star (Kim Cattrall) who best days are far behind her. We have an exclusive look at the movie with a clip from the upcoming Blu-ray release. Here, a very drunk Brian Dennehy, playing Dustin Ingram's father, attempts to school his son on the ways of the future and the uselessness of a comic book convention. Check it out below.

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In this irreverent comedy, awkward teenager Tobe (Dustin Ingram) sets off on a road trip to meet Monica Velour (Kim Cattrall), his favorite 80s porn star, at a rare live appearance hundreds of miles away. Instead of the glamorous sexpot portrayed on film,...

A Dutch protectorate tucked near the very bottom of the Caribbean, Aruba is a small, arid, resort powered island that, despite its idiosyncrasies, may feel at times, especially along its sunbather packed eastern shores, like any other tourist satellite (although a particularly intoxicating one it is). Still, woe is he who gets caught in the all too ubiquitous American simulacrum, one of decidedly marked-up Five Guys fries and T.G.I. Friday’s chicken fingers, of cheeseburger “specials” at Hooters with beef that taste like copper. Of course, this is a film festival on a beautiful tourist trap, so there’s a lot of glamor, some forced, although mostly not in this particularly pricey locale; if you look hard enough, you can even find a place along the resorts with actual Aruban food.

The Aruba Film Festival is a young festival however, perhaps against all odds considering some of the...

In what many might not think of as a major acting stretch, Sex and the City‘s Kim Cattrall stars as a former porn star who befriends a young fan in the 2010 indie comedy romance Meet Monica Velour, coming to Blu-ray and DVD from Anchor Bay on Aug. 16. It will be priced at $34.99 and $29.98, respectively.

Kim Cattrall is a 1980s porn star past her prime in Meet Monica Velour.

The movie kicks off with dweeby teenager Tobe (Dustin Ingram) setting out on a road trip to meet his favorite 1980s’ porn star, Velour (Cattrall), who’s making a rare live appearance across the country. Tobe is more than a little thrown when he meets the real Monica, a 49-year-old single mother who lives in a trailer in Indiana and strips in sleazy clubs to make ends meet. But that doesn’t matter to the wholly enraptured Tobe…

Written and directed...

Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram and Keith Bearden attend Meet Monica Velour Toronto premiere.Photo copyright Robin Wong / PR Photos. Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram and Keith Bearden attend Meet Monica Velour Toronto premiere.Photo copyright Robin Wong / PR Photos. Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram and Keith Bearden attend Meet Monica Velour Toronto premiere.Photo copyright Robin Wong / PR Photos. Dustin Ingram attends Meet Monica Velour Toronto premiere.Photo copyright Robin Wong / PR Photos. Kim Cattrall attends Meet Monica Velour Toronto premiere.Photo copyright Robin Wong / PR Photos. 04/13/2011 - Kim Cattrall and Dustin Ingram - "Meet Monica Velour" Toronto Premiere - Arrivals - Cineplex Odeon Varsity - Toronto, Canada © Robin Wong / PR Photos 04/13/2011...

An aging porn star befriends a star-struck fan in this poignant comedy from director Keith Bearden, in theaters Friday

Meet Monica Velour is a very sweet natured comedy about an aging porn star and her biggest fan, a seventeen year old nerd with a nostalgia fetish. Kim Cattrall plays Monica, a beautiful centerfold who headlined a number of off-the-wall adult films in the late seventies and early eighties. She has since fallen on hard times, resorting to ridicule at the local strip club where she dances to hoots and hollers of, "Is she wearing depends?" Tobe (Dustin Ingram), who has been a collector of Monica Velour VHS tapes, posters, and magazines throughout the years, decides to pay the hopeless and desolate Velour a visit while on a road trip to sell his prized Hot Dog vending truck. After an initial bumpy meeting, these two lost souls slowly, but surely, become friends,...

Meet Monica Velour, the heralded indie starring Kim Cattrall as a washed up porn star, will arrive in theaters on April 8. We certainly have to celebrate this comedy and we have a new contest lined up for our readers. We're giving away a $100 American Express gift card and a theatrical poster signed by star Kim Cattrall. These prizes will surely go fast, so enter this contest today.

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In this irreverent comedy, awkward teenager Tobe (Dustin Ingram) sets off on a road trip to meet Monica Velour (Kim Cattrall), his favorite '80s porn star, at a rare live appearance hundreds of miles away. Instead of the glamorous sexpot portrayed on film, he finds a 49-year-old single mom living in a trailer in rural Indiana, performing at seedy strip clubs to make ends meet.

Meet Keith Bearden, director of Meet Monica Velour.

Starting off our conversation on Stanley Kubrick and The Shining (Keith did his homework on my favorite films via my bio on Gatw), director Keith Bearden and I found ourselves to get along quite well, as he used to be a film journalist himself for Fangoria Magazine (yup, I did my homework too). During our interview, we chat about his life-turning step into becoming a director, his relationships with former porn stars, the casting of Kim Cattrall, our favorite horror films, and the possibility of my marriage to Dustin Ingram, who plays main character Tobe in his first feature film, Meet Monica Velour.

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Title: Meet Monica Velour Director: Keith Bearden Starring: Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram (’Glee’), Brian Dennehy Sexual comedies with older women in the lead role aren’t the biggest sellers in America today. As seen with the popularity of such hit movies as the ‘American Pie’ series, America is obsessed with sexualized images and plot-lines involving young characters, and fails to appreciate the attractiveness of older actors. But director Keith Bearden’s new romantic comedy, Anchor Bay Films’ ‘Meet Monica Velour,’ surprisingly breaks down all previous thoughts and misconceptions of relationships and love seen in other comedies. ‘Meet Monica Velour’ follows 17-year-old Tobe Hulbert (played by Dustin Ingram) as he graduates from high school and is deciding [...]...

Reviewed by Lila Nordstrom

(April 2011)

Directed/Written by: Keith Bearden

Starring: Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram and Brian Dennehy

Nothing is more fascinating than the private lives of famous people after they have lost traction with the public. In many parts of the entertainment industry, they can just live off of their accumulated wealth and become, say, the people behind the camera. This is not generally true, however, of veterans of the pornography industry, where women are forced out relatively young by most career standards and even the most successful figures don’t develop any skills that they can write on a résumé.

In “Meet Monica Velour,” we get a glance at the many ways that middle age is not kind to the ex-porn star. The movie is at once a coming-of-age story about a misfit and first loves and a fascinating exploration of what happens to the people that we (the public) discard.

Reviewed by Lila Nordstrom

(April 2011)

Directed/Written by: Keith Bearden

Starring: Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram and Brian Dennehy

Nothing is more fascinating than the private lives of famous people after they have lost traction with the public. In many parts of the entertainment industry, they can just live off of their accumulated wealth and become, say, the people behind the camera. This is not generally true, however, of veterans of the pornography industry, where women are forced out relatively young by most career standards and even the most successful figures don’t develop any skills that they can write on a résumé.

In “Meet Monica Velour,” we get a glance at the many ways that middle age is not kind to the ex-porn star. The movie is at once a coming-of-age story about a misfit and first loves and a fascinating exploration of what happens to the people that we (the public) discard.

Want to be in a movie? Well, if you don’t look like a runway model, have washboard abs or look anything like the cast members of The Twilight Saga, director Keith Bearden is looking for you. In all seriousness, Bearden has an appreciation for ideas and characters that feel real. While he considers his first feature film, Meet Monica Velour, a high concept piece, it’s got much more to it than its basic premise. In high concept terms, Meet Monica Velour is about a nerdy kid who falls for an older stripper. Dig a little deeper and you get a piece about a high school graduate (Dustin Ingram) just trying to [...]...

Keith Bearden entertained us endlessly last year when he came to Tribeca with his debut feature, Meet Monica Velour. As the film, which stars Kim Cattrall, makes its ways into theaters, we asked him to round up a mini-festival of films from the decade that inspired him: the 1970s. (Learn more about Keith in his Faces of the Festival interview from last April.) Tobe (Dustin Ingram), the teenaged lead character in my film Meet Monica Velour, gives a speech early on in the film about his love for classic things, things that have stood the test of time, despite his friend's urging him to like 'normal stuff.' One of his lines is, 'The best movies are from the 70s.' Well, if you're talking about creative American cinema, social satire, philosophical and political subtext in film, drive-in movies, adult film, color horror films, the original blockbusters - I'd have to agree.

Kim Cattrall got cozy with Liza Minnelli at a special screening of "Meet Monica Velour," in which Cattrall stars as an 80s porn star long past her prime. The event, hosted by Pamella Roland, kicked off at New York's Landmark Sunshine Cinema and was followed by an intimate after party atop Hotel Chantelle in the Lower East Side. Cattrall and Minnelli were joined by the film's newbie director Keith Bearden ...

We have an exclusive clip from the upcoming indie comedy Meet Monica Velour, which will be released in theaters on April 8. Click below to watch a scene with Kim Cattrall and Dustin Ingram watching her 3D movie, Frankenbooty.

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In this irreverent comedy, awkward teenager Tobe (Dustin Ingram) sets off on a road trip to meet Monica Velour (Kim Cattrall), his favorite '80s porn star, at a rare live appearance hundreds of miles away. Instead of the glamorous sexpot portrayed on film, he finds a 49-year-old single mom living in a trailer in rural Indiana, performing at seedy strip clubs to make ends meet. A starry-eyed Tobe, still captivated by his crush, befriends Monica, further complicating her difficult life. Kim Cattrall gives a career-defining performance in this offbeat love story that appeals to the dreamer -- and the nerd -- in all of us.

Meet Monica Velour...

ComingSoon.net has an exclusive clip from writer/director Keith Bearden's upcoming comedy Meet Monica Velour , starring Kim Cattrall and Dustin Ingram. In the April 8 release, awkward teenager Tobe (Ingram) sets off on a road trip to meet Monica Velour (Cattrall), his favorite '80s porn star, at a rare live appearance hundreds of miles away. Instead of the glamorous sexpot portrayed on film, he finds a 49-year-old single mom living in a trailer in rural Indiana, performing at seedy strip clubs to make ends meet. A starry-eyed Tobe, still captivated by his crush, befriends Monica, further complicating her difficult life.

Check out this trailer for Meet Monica Velour, Directed by Keith Bearden and starring Dustin Ingram and Kim Cattrall. It’s an offbeat comedy about a teenager who goes on a roadtrip to meet his favorite porn star from the 80s. At about 0:57 into the trailer, there is a scene that is reminiscent of a scene from The Wrestler where Mickey Rourke defends Marisa Tomei against some college students.

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In this irreverent comedy, awkward teenager Tobe (Dustin Ingram) sets off on a road trip to meet Monica Velour (Kim Cattrall), his favorite ’80s porn star, at a rare live appearance hundreds of miles away. Instead of the glamorous sexpot portrayed on film, he finds a 49-year-old single mom living in a trailer in rural Indiana, performing at seedy strip clubs to make ends meet. A starry-eyed Tobe, still captivated by his crush, befriends Monica, further complicating her difficult life.

Sneak Peek the upcoming comedy romance "Meet Monica Velour", directed by Keith Bearden, starring Kim Cattrall ("Big Trouble In Little China"), Dustin Ingram, Brian Dennehy, Keith David, and Jee Young Han.

...'Monica Velour' follows 'Tobe' (Ingram) who learns that his favorite 1980's-era movie actress 'Monica Velour' (Cattrall) will be giving a live stage performance in another town.

"Making the long journey, Tobe meets up with Monica and finds a 'middle aged' single mother, living in a trailer in rural Indiana, performing at seedy strip clubs to make ends meet..."

Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Meet Monica Velour"...

Watch the official trailer for Meet Monica Velour, starring Kim Catrall, Dustin Ingram, Brian Dennehy and Keith David. Keith Bearden directs from his own script while Gary Gilbert and Jordan Horowitz produce. Also in the cast of the Anchor Bay Films release are Young Han Jee, Daniel Yelsky, Jamie Tisdale and Jay Malack. Meet Monica Velour Synopsis: In this irreverent comedy, awkward teenager Tobe (Dustin Ingram) sets off on a road trip to meet Monica Velour (Kim Cattrall), his favorite '80s porn star, at a rare live appearance hundreds of miles away. Instead of the glamorous sexpot portrayed on film, he finds a 49-year-old single mom living in a trailer in rural Indiana, performing at seedy strip clubs to make ends meet. A starry-eyed Tobe, still captivated by his crush, befriends Monica, further complicating her difficult life. Kim Cattrall gives a career-defining performance in this offbeat love story that...

Watch the official trailer for Meet Monica Velour, starring Kim Catrall, Dustin Ingram, Brian Dennehy and Keith David. Keith Bearden directs from his own script while Gary Gilbert and Jordan Horowitz produce. Also in the cast of the Anchor Bay Films release are Young Han Jee, Daniel Yelsky, Jamie Tisdale and Jay Malack. Meet Monica Velour Synopsis: In this irreverent comedy, awkward teenager Tobe (Dustin Ingram) sets off on a road trip to meet Monica Velour (Kim Cattrall), his favorite '80s porn star, at a rare live appearance hundreds of miles away. Instead of the glamorous sexpot portrayed on film, he finds a 49-year-old single mom living in a trailer in rural Indiana, performing at seedy strip clubs to make ends meet. A starry-eyed Tobe, still captivated by his crush, befriends Monica, further complicating her difficult life. Kim Cattrall gives a career-defining performance in this offbeat love story that...

We're about to get a better look at Kim Cattrall, and hopefully you'll be able to take that the right way. Meet Monica Velour is hitting theaters April 8th, and it has Cattrall starring as an '80s porn star who suddenly finds herself with a fan on her doorstep.

I don't have that much to go on, although theoretically this is probably a tricky role to pull off, but you can at least check out the poster.

In this irreverent comedy, awkward teenager Tobe (Dustin Ingram) sets off on a road trip to meet Monica Velour (Kim Cattrall), his favorite '80s porn star, at a rare live appearance hundreds of miles away. Instead of the glamorous sexpot portrayed on film, he finds a 49-year-old single mom living in a trailer in rural Indiana, performing at seedy strip clubs to make ends meet.

A starry-eyed Tobe, still captivated by his crush,...

We have the exclusive debut of a new poster from the upcoming indie comedy Meet Monica Velour, which will be released in theaters on April 8. Take a look at this new one-sheet below from this movie, which stars Kim Cattrall and Dustin Ingram.

In this irreverent comedy, awkward teenager Tobe (Dustin Ingram) sets off on a road trip to meet Monica Velour (Kim Cattrall), his favorite '80s porn star, at a rare live appearance hundreds of miles away. Instead of the glamorous sexpot portrayed on film, he finds a 49-year-old single mom living in a trailer in rural Indiana, performing at seedy strip clubs to make ends meet. A starry-eyed Tobe, still captivated by his crush, befriends Monica, further complicating her difficult life. Kim Cattrall gives a career-defining performance in this offbeat love story that appeals to the dreamer -- and the nerd -- in all of us.

Meet Monica Velour...

Good distribution news for six more Tff films - 5 from Tff 2010, and 1 from Tff 2009! In a change of pace, all are narrative films. Any on your must-see list? Just today, deadline.com announced that Anchor Bay has acquired the distribution rights to Meet Monica Velour (Tff 2010: World Premiere). Word is Keith Bearden's film, which stars Sex and the City's Kim Cattrall - as an aging ex-porn star - Brian Dennehy, and Dustin Ingram, will have a Spring 2011 release. More about Meet Monica Velour. It's been a good month for Brian Dennehy... Another family drama we loved is Richard Levine's Every Day (Tff 2010: World Premiere), which has a terrific cast, including Dennehy, Helen Hunt, Liev Schreiber, and Ezra Miller. Deadline.com reports that Image Entertainment just acquired Every Day for a DVD/digital release in Spring 2011. More about Every Day. IndieWIRE's Peter Knegt reports that Best...

Exclusive From Toronto: While distribution deals for some Toronto-premiered films percolate slowly, distributors continue to lock down films that premiere at earlier festivals. Anchor Bay Films has acquired distribution rights to Meet Monica Velour, a comedy that stars Kim Cattrall, Brian Dennehy and newcomer Dustin Ingram. It played at the Seattle and Tribeca festivals. Pic was written and directed by Keith Bearden and financed/produced by Gary Gilbert's Gilbert Films. When a young man sets out to find his favorite 80s porn star, instead of a fantasy sexpot he finds a 49-year old mom living in a trailer park and complicates her difficult life by trying to get close to her. The role is far less glamorous than Cattrall’s Sex and the City turns and her performance was lauded for the actress’ lack of vanity. The deal was made by Anchor Bay’s exec veep of acquisitions Kevin Kasha and prexy Bill Clark.

Keith Bearden, director of Meet Monica Velour, a quirky comedy that premiered this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, was looking for a fat kid when he found his lanky star, Dustin Ingram. In the title role Kim Cattrall plays an anti-Samantha character as an 80's soft core porn star living in a run down trailer, all the while raising her daughter on her own. Tobe, Dustin Ingram, brings new joys to awkwardness while portraying a hilarious nerd who transports himself cross country in a wiener mobile to catch a glimpse at his sexual idol, Monica Velour. The unlikely friendship to develop between Monica and Tobe is odd and appealing. Keith Bearden and Dustin Ingram are two characters in themselves, a comedic duo cut out for a reality show that I'd be sure to tune in to. Dustin Ingram and...

By Scott Feinberg

Keith Bearden’s “Meet Monica Velour” premiered on Sunday at New York’s School of Visual Arts as part of the ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival. After just a few minutes of establishing material, the film began to look a lot like other low-budget indies that recently clicked: its protagonist is a veritable — and virginial — nerd (very similar to the title character in “Napoleon Dynamite”); it constantly employs sight gags like a decades-old Weenie-mobile (not a far stretch from the Vw-bus in “Little Miss Sunshine”); its script calls for hip/irony-laden dialogue and terms like “Homeslice” (which is embarassingly similar to “Homeskillet” in “Juno”); and the list goes on. The reality is that this film cannot compete with those films on their strengths, but it does have a few of its own — and none is greater than the actress who plays its eponymous character, Kim Cattrall.

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Keith Bearden and Dustin Ingram are pretty silly guys. I should have seen this considering the quirky nature of their film, Meet Monica Velour, but perhaps its sensitive side is what threw me off. Ingram stars in Bearden.s feature directorial debut as Tobe, a geeky high school grad who drives a vintage hot dog truck, hangs out with his 12-year-old neighbor and covets his collection of Monica Velour.s adult films. The latter would be considered a normal thing, but Monica was in her prime back in the 80s. Regardless, Tobe is adamant about seeing his dream girl live so hops in his hot dog mobile and heads to The Petting Zoo in Pinhook, Indiana. Monica struts her stuff, but to nobody.s liking. Well, nobody but Tobe. In fact, Tobe discovers he likes Monica for something entirely neglected by the porn industry, what she had on the inside.

It’s time to get to know Dustin Ingram. You may recognize him from the family-friendly superhero movie Sky High or the Nickelodeon series Unfabulous, but Ingram is all grown up now and delving into far more demanding roles. In Keith Bearden’s Meet Monica Velour, Ingram stars as Tobe, a geeky high school grad with eccentric interests, the most notable of which is an obsession with the hottest adult video actress of the 80s, Monica Velour. After finding out about an opportunity to see Monica perform live, Tobe hops in his hot dog truck and heads straight to Pinhook, Indiana. Nearly three decades past her prime, Monica is just not the [...]...

Kim Cattrall hated looking "f***ed up" on the set of her new movie "Meet Monica Velour". The 53-year-old actress, best known for her role as man eater Samantha Jones in "Sex and the City", plays an aging prostitute in the film, and admits she did her best to avoid seeing herself on screen.

"Most of the time as an actress, you want to look desirable, you want to be pretty, you want to be sexy, you want to be lit properly," she said. "Whereas there were days when I didn't even have any make-up on."

"There were days when they actually changed the light to make me look harder and more overweight or just more f***ed up. I didn't see the dailies on it because I thought, 'You know, I've made a stand here that I'm gonna do this in a very truthful way, and if I look...

The 53-year-old actress – best known for her role as maneater Samantha Jones in ‘Sex and the City’ – plays an ageing prostitute in the film, and admits she did her best to avoid seeing herself on screen. She said: “Most of the time as an actress, you want to look desirable, you want to be pretty, you want to be sexy, you want to be lit properly - whereas there were days when I didn’t even have any make-up on. “There were days when they actually changed the light to make me look harder and more overweight or just more f***ed up. I didn’t see the dailies on it because I thought, ‘You know, I’ve made a stand here that I’m gonna do this in a very truthful way, and if I look at them they might scare me.’ ” Despite her worries about the way she...

Kim Cattrall was "shocked" watching herself as a washed-up prostitute in new movie Meet Monica Velour - because she piled on the pounds for the role.

The actress was told to gain weight because director Keith Bearden was determined to change the audience's view of the Sex and the City star.

Cattrall tells NYMag.com, "(Bearden) was very adamant about me gaining a lot of weight. He wanted me to gain like 35 pounds! Really, just for health reasons I couldn't do that. I also didn't have enough time to do it safely with a doctor's care. But what I did was I put on fifteen pounds, and that was comfortable. I could do that. I just didn't exercise at all."

The 53 year old insists she's pleased with the completed film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, even though she was stunned by her appearance onscreen.

She adds, "(It was) terrifying, really. Most of the time as an actress, you want to look desirable, you want to be pretty, you want to be sexy, you want to be lit properly - whereas here there were days when I didn't even have any make-up on. There were days when they actually changed the light to make me look harder and more overweight or just more f**ked up. I didn't see the dailies (daily footage) on it because I thought, 'You know, I've made a stand here that I'm gonna do this in a very truthful way, and if I look at them they might scare me.'

"But I felt the movie was very truthful... When I first saw the film I was in a bit of a shock because I didn't see myself. I couldn't find my spirit. Mine. Kim's. I felt it was so totally someone else, and a lot of it was really scary to look at."...

'Sex and the City 2' opens next month, but Kim Cattrall's latest role is a washed-up prostitute the independent film 'Meet Monica Velour,' which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival. Kim talked to New York magazine about uglying up for the role. You can see a clip from the movie of 'fat' Kim doing a pole dance below. On director Keith Bearden's wishes for her weight gain: "He was very adamant about me gaining a lot of weight. He wanted me to gain like 35 pounds! Really, just for health reasons I couldn't do that. I also didn't have enough time to do it safely with a doctor's care. But what I did was I put on fifteen pounds, and that was comfortable. I could do that. I just didn't exercise at all." On watching herself onscreen: "Oh, terrifying, really. Most of the...

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Kim Cattrall aka Samantha Jones in “Sex and the City,” spoke with Vulture about her turn in the recent indie flick that’s playing at the Tribeca Film Festival, “Meet Monica Velour.” In the film, Cattrell plays a different type of sexy vamp – a washed up ‘70s porn star that’s out of her prime who is pursued by a teenage fan.

In sum, while the character might reside in a neighboring galaxy to Samantha – it’s 180 degrees from the “Sex and the City” babe. Whereas Samantha is surrounded by friends in a Manhattan penthouse, Velour lives with six cats in a trailer park.

In prepping for the film, the director Keith Bearden asked Cattrall to gain 35 pounds, which she refused to do on account of health reasons (she settled for 15).

According to Cattrall, she’s far from gorgeous onscreen:

“ Most of the time as an actress, you want to look desirable,...

New director Keith Bearden fought back tears as he invited Tribeca audiences to Meet Monica Velour at the Sva Theater for the film's world premiere on Sunday afternoon. 'Movies are dreams and fantasy that the writer or director has,' he began. 'If you're lucky you get all the people you need to make a movie who make your dream real. The missing part - even though this movie has been finished - the missing part is here tonight: the audience.' He told the sold-out crowd that his lead actress Kim Cattrall (who will be reviving her iconic role of Samantha in May's Sex and the City 2) couldn't be there due to a grueling 10 performances a week schedule on London's West End. 'But through the miracle of technology, she sent me an email yesterday, which I will read to you. ‘Keith, I wish I could be there today.

It sounds like a painful concept that you'd find in a sleazy Hollywood comedy: a young nerd, fresh out of high school, befriends a has-been porno queen, falls madly in love, helps her out of a jam, and learns a few valuable life lessons in the progress. You could probably name all the key plot points and supporting characters without even seeing the film, right? That's certainly what the film festival guide's premise for Meet Monica Velour had me thinking. Fortunately I do not write reviews of film festival guide premises, which is why I watched the movie itself.

And, hey, it's actually quite a little winner, truth be told. Oh sure, it hits a few stumbling blocks here and there, given that it is a first-timer's feature after all, but overall I found myself touched and rather impressed by the flick's restraint, honesty, and emotional heft.

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By Steve Pond

Kim Cattrall was in one of the year’s critical hits, Roman Polanski’s “The Ghost Writer,” and she’ll soon appear onscreen in one of the summer’s presumed blockbusters, “Sex and the City 2.” In between, though, Cattrall is going low-budget and indie with “Meet Monica Velour,” director Keith Bearden’s offbeat comedy about an ‘80s adult-film star who’s fallen on hard times, and the besotted young fan (Dustin Ingram) who becomes her unlikely defender.

While “Meet Monica Velour” scre...

TribecaFilm.com: Tell us a little about Meet Monica Velour. Keith Bearden: It's a sweet little comedy/drama about a forgotten '70s porn star and the naïve teen boy who drives across country to meet her. TribecaFilm.com: What inspired you to tell this story? Kb: I used to write about film for magazines. Once I contacted a retired '80s adult star to see if she was in B action movies under a different name. She said she was not, but she loved to meet her fans, and for 200 bucks I could spend the night with her. My jaw dropped. I thought, is this what happens to these women who make millions for the male producers in the porn industry? That was the seed. I also like funny women and wanted to write a comedy with a female lead, especially one over 40. (I pretty much write parts...

Hard Rock Havana Tff 2010 might be starting today, but we jumped the gun a bit last night and threw a special party at the Bowery Hotel for our homegrown NY filmmakers, sponsored by our friends at Company 3. Filmmakers in attendance hailed from Queens to Brooklyn, the Bronx to Manhattan. (Staten Island, were you represented?) What did they all have in common, in addition to being from the greatest city in the world? They were ecstatic that the Festival is finally here, and they cannot Wait to show their films to the best audience in the world: Tribeca's. American Mystic Tribeca filmmakers in attendance included Keith Bearden (Meet Monica Velour), Ahmed Ahmed (Just Like Us), Alex Mar (American Mystic), Nicholas Brennan (Hard Rock Havana), and Francisco Bello (The Spirit of Salsa), to name just a few. Bello described his hopes for his big screening at the Tribeca Drive-In on Thursday...

The first sneak peek to "Meet Monica Velour" has been provided in form of an age-restricted clip. An exclusive courtesy of Cinematical, the video gives a look at the scene in which a young, nerd boy played by Dustin Ingram sees an erotic stage performance.

And the woman who does the rauchy stage act is no other than lead actress Kim Cattrall. Appearing on the stage with a bride veil, she does pole dancing with the set of romantic song "Tonight I Celebrate My Love for You" from Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack.

The film centers its story on Tobe who has an unlikely friendship with his idol, Cattrall's Monica Velour. Later, his unripe romantic impulses entangle with her messy life as a struggling single mother embroiled in a custody battle for her only daughter.

"Meet Monica Velour" is directed by Keith Bearden and will have its world premiere at...

Have plans to attend this month's Tribeca Film Festival? Then you should certainly make time to Meet Monica Velour. Writer-director Keith Bearden's film, which is one of the acquisition titles playing this year's festival, will be making its world premiere on April 25th. We've got an exclusive clip to get you in the mood.

Billed as a modern day updating of '80s comedies like Last American Virgin, Weird Science, Losin' It, and My Tutor, this sexy-sweet feature stars newcomer Dustin Ingram (who's rockin' a Napoleon Dynamite-like hairstyle) as a geeky high school grad on a quest to meet his favorite porn star - one Monica Velour, star of such porntastical treasures as Saturday Night Beaver. Kim Cattrall plays the title character, an aging porn star still in the biz.

In the clip, Ingram's character is at dive strip club to see his idol strut her stuff. While...

London, April 16 – Actress Kim Cattrall Kim Cattrall almost lost a role for being too good looking.

Keith Bearden, director of the movie ‘Meet Monica Velour’, told that he ‘Sex and The City’ star had to gain some weight and ditch the glamour, if she wanted to play the lead role of a prostitute in his film, reports the Daily Express.

He said: “My big concern was, ‘She’s way too good looking!’

“I was like, ‘You need to gain weight, and the goal is to blow people’s image of.

Actress Kim Cattrall almost missed out on playing a washed-up prostitute in new movie "Meet Monica Velour" - because she looked too good. Director Keith Bearden told the "Sex and the City" star she'd have to put on weight and ditch the glamor to land the lead in his indie movie, which premieres at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

He says, "My big concern was, 'She's way too good looking!' I was like, 'You need to gain weight, and the goal is to blow people's image of you into tiny little pieces. I'm going to make you look bad at every turn.'"

Starring also Dustin Ingram, the indie movie is about a young man who travels cross-country to meet his dream woman, a 1980s cinema siren who is now a 50-year-old single mother in the middle of a child custody battle.

Actress Kim Cattrall almost missed out on playing a washed-up prostitute in new movie Meet Monica Velour - because she looked too good.

Director Keith Bearden told the Sex & The City star she'd have to put on weight and ditch the glamour to land the lead in his indie movie, which premieres at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival in New York.

He says, "My big concern was, 'She's way too good looking!'

"I was like, 'You need to gain weight, and the goal is to blow people's image of you into tiny little pieces. I'm going to make you look bad at every turn.'"...