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TITLE |
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) |
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DISABILITY |
Amputee
Blind General Narcolepsy Tourette-syndrome |
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NOTES |
The film is
about a guy who while house-sitting for a male |
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gigolo is
mistaken for one himself. |
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Rob
Schneider stars it as the main character, Deuce Bigalow, |
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a hapless
fellow who barely makes a living cleaning fish |
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tanks in
Miami, Florida, until he finds himself embroiled in a |
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conflict
with a wealthy and ferocious gigolo, Antoine, who left |
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his
expensive apartment in care of Deuce while he travelled to Europe on
business. Poor Deuce damaged the place and |
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has to raise
US$6,000 before Antoine's return or face his |
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wrath. So
Deuce turns to "man-whoring" with the help of a |
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"male-madam." His clients turn out to be an assortment of |
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out-or-the-ordinary women, including a gigantic Norwegian |
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lady, and a
woman with Tourette-syndrome. But Deuce falls |
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in love with
one of his clients, sweet and beautiful Kate (Arija |
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Bareikis),
who is a RAK amputee and who, predictably, gets |
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furious and
abandons him as soon as she discovers that he |
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was paid to
go out with her. There is also a sub-plot involving |
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a policeman
who chases Deuce and shows him his "willie" at |
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All in all,
the movie has a few tender moments and some |
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good laughs
but it is light fare in the extreme and it will surely |
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offend some
people with its repeated jokes about a wide |
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array of
physically disabled or just different people. But in the |
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end it is
more childish than mean spirited and the scenes |
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with Miss
Bareikis are almost enough to save it from oblivion. |
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