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How Lame Prudes Ruined This New Sex-Free Rom-Com
thedailybeast.com · 1d
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For a movie centered around the horniest night of the year, One Night Only is disappointingly clean-cut. The R-rated film takes place in a dystopian version of the United States where non-married people are only allowed to bone once a year in a 12-hour window. Putting aside the weird, vaguely fascist politics inherent to this premise, it’s easy to see the film’s appeal: viewers were promised lots of simmering sexual tension and lots of cathartic sexual release. One Night Only offers precious little of either. If it cleaned up some of its language, it could’ve easily landed a PG-13 rating. Why was this movie about sex so oddly sexless? In a new interview with Variety , director Will Gluck blamed the prudish sensibilities of modern filmgoers. Read more at The Daily Beast.
First report: How to navigate the sex Purge of One Night Only — avclub.com, 4d
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