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Diary of a Sex Addict

  • Video
  • 2001
  • R
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
3.4/10
1.8K
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Nastassja Kinski and Rosanna Arquette in Diary of a Sex Addict (2001)
Drama

A restaurant owner leads a double life.A restaurant owner leads a double life.A restaurant owner leads a double life.

  • Director
    • Joseph Brutsman
  • Writers
    • Tony Peck
    • Joseph Brutsman
  • Stars
    • Michael Des Barres
    • Rosanna Arquette
    • Nastassja Kinski
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.4/10
    1.8K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Joseph Brutsman
    • Writers
      • Tony Peck
      • Joseph Brutsman
    • Stars
      • Michael Des Barres
      • Rosanna Arquette
      • Nastassja Kinski
    • 40User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Michael Des Barres
    Michael Des Barres
    • Sammy Horn
    Rosanna Arquette
    Rosanna Arquette
    • Grace Horn
    Nastassja Kinski
    Nastassja Kinski
    • Jane Bordeaux
    Cole Sprouse
    Cole Sprouse
    • Sam Jr.
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    Ed Begley Jr.
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      • Tony Peck
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    2claudio_carvalho

    Amateurish and Trash

    Sammy Horn (Michael Des Barres) is the head chef and owner of the famous restaurant Sammy´s in California. He is a family man married with Grace Horn (Rosanna Arquette) with a beautiful five-year son. Sammy loves his family, but is sex addicted. Like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he has a double life, having sex with many different women. The psychiatrist Dr. Jane Bordeaux (Nastassja Kinski) is trying to help him with therapy but Sammy does not change his behavior.

    "Diary of a Sex Addicted" is a film with storyline, screenplay and dialogs silly and laughable. The cinematography is poor and amateurish and some scenes seem to be footages from VHS camcorder. Michael Des Barres acting as an attractive wolf, who has sex with any woman, sounds ridiculous. The gorgeous Nastassja Kinki is shown fat, without make-up and any glamour in the role of a psychiatrist and Rosanna Arquette as a naive wife. Why Rosanna Arquette and Nastassja Kinski have accepted to participate in such awful, amateurish and trash erotic thriller? Do they need money? Lack of chances in better movies due to their ages? Are they friends of the "director" and decided to help to promote his movie? My vote is two.

    Title (Brazil): "Viciado Em Sexo" ("Sex Addicted")
    1perfectisolation

    This guy will never ever ever direct another movie

    I fell asleep on my couch at 7:35pm last night watching Larry Sanders (I usually DirecTivo it, but not last night). Woke up at 3am (invesment banker on the west coast), and was fascinated to see this on HBO2. I was shocked on how poor this 'movie' was. Seriously. shocked. So shocked that I had to write a commentary on iMDB. This is really really bad. the writing is boring, but the directing and editing are simply below those of a freshman at a film school.

    Yes it is shot video. Mind you, that is shot on VIDEO, not DIGITAL VIDEO. It does look like a soap opera. The clips from skateboard videos have a more 'film' feel to them then this horror.

    I wanted to describe the poor directing but i honestly cant remember anything. The shots and blocking are stupid. yes, i chose the word 'stupid'. not unconventional, not daring, not bold, not boring, just stupid. I know people reviewing this review will say "well give me an example". I cant. It was 3am. but trust me, I know you will watch it anyway, you will be drawn by the horrible reviews.
    Mulciber

    So awful I'm writing my very first comment.

    I write about film professionally, but have never felt the drive to comment here. However, I read the previous viewer comment and was inspired. I stumbled on the thing much as the other writer did, and was similarly aghast. Probably deserves some special sort of recognition, and I'm happy to do my part in spreading the word. I can almost imagine this film being some sort of "Springtime for Hitler" -type scheme. It's text book bad. A must-see.
    1el_nickster

    Monumental Stinkbomb

    This movie (not a film -- clearly recorded on a cheap cam-corder) may be one of the greatest cinematic stink-bombs in history. Beware: the packaging advertises the flick as an erotic exploration of sex-addiction. The film is not an exploration of anything, and it is no more erotic than staring at one's own warts. The script is pointless and meandering, with all plot elements serving as segways between supposed sex scenes. However, even the sex scenes are lame lame lame. Except for the first, they are around three seconds long (then again, maybe my version was cut) and comically overwrought.

    If you are looking for a decent film, you don't want this. If you are looking for a titillating sex-flick, you don't want this. Whatever your life's goals, desires, or perspectives, you do not want to watch this movie. How they got Rosanna Arquette, Natashia Kinski, and Ed Begly to act in this stink bomb is puzzling in the extreme.
    1steelo_masterz

    makes showgirl look brilliant

    let me first say, i watched this movie around midnight, and usually there only is trash around this hour, but this movie broke the record

    first of all the main character is an old non attractive creepy guy, yet he gets to f*ck all girls that come on his path for example he goes to a shop, talks to a girl and then you see them f*ck

    secondly there are loads of sex scenes, and in many of them there is no nudity at all, i would not have been surprised if one of the characters in the movie would say: fast put your clothes on so we can f*ck!

    thirdly this movie should show what a sexual addiction can do to a man or a family, this movie only shows soft bad acted erotica it makes me wonder why those actors agreed to play in such trash

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      Sammy Horn: Can anyone say they had a relationship that they didn't lie in?

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      Referenced in The Holiday (2006)

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    • Release date
      • November 13, 2001 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Bir Sex Düşkünün Günlüğü
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Millennium Films
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 33m(93 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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