The Deviants (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Deviants


caption =
director = Reid Waterer
producer = Justin Louis
writer = Doug Dezzani & Reid Waterer
starring = Doug Dezzani
Tamara Curry
Parry Shen
Tiffany Shepis
Adoni Maropis
Angel Boris
Shauna Sand Lamas
music = Robert Wayne Johnson
cinematography = Mark Putnam
editing =
distributor = Allumination Entertainment
released = 29 May, 2004
(LA)
runtime = 81 min.
country = US
language = English
budget =
amg_id = 1:306543
imdb_id = 0322005

"The Deviants" is a comedy about a matchmaker for people with unusual sexual deviations (all of which legal or borderline legal, except non statutory female on male rape). "The Deviants" was written by Doug Dezzani and Reid Waterer, and directed by Reid Waterer. It was Waterer's first feature.

The MPAA Rating for the film is R for strong sexual content, nudity (by the nudist character of Tiffany Shepis) and language.

Acceptance

This film was nominated for Best Feature of the 2003 Ohio Independent Film Festival. It received a rave review from Julie Washington in Cleveland's major newspaper, "The Plain Dealer", in which she called it "hilarious and more heartfelt than any of the gross-out fests filling the multiplexes. A celebration of sick humor". [cite news |author=Julie E. Washington |title=Unconventional takes on love, politics |work=The Plain Dealer |page=D1 |date=2003-11-03] And in North Carolina's "Winston-Salem Journal", Mark Burger wrote: "Slight but appealing romantic comedy, in which an unorthodox dating service tries to match people with sexual quirks. Director Reid Waterer may be a talent to watch, and Tiffany Shepis is a saucy standout". [cite news |author=Mark Burger |title=Videos Now in Stores |work=Winston-Salem Journal |page=Relish Supplement |date=2004-09-02]

Production

Produced independently, the movie was acquired by Allumination Entertainment and released on DVD in 2004. [cite news |author=Buzz McClain |title=The Deviants |work=Video Business |page=23 |date=2004-05-31]

Plot

Norm the matchmaker at Hopeless Romantics can find surprising love matches for anyone, no matter how strange their behavior. However, when Norm hires sassy protege Monique and tries to teach her the tricks of the trade, they encounter the wildest clients he's ever had, some of whom are:

* A female nudist (Tiffany Shepis), who seeks someone who will share her views on social nudity and sexuality. That is, someone who will see her constant nakedness in appreciation of the human body rather than an invitation for sex.

* Norm himself, who always feels uncomplete in sex due to his failure to experience simultaneous orgasms with his female partner.

* A hypersexual woman (Angel Boris), who can't talk to men in private without immediately raping them at gunpoint and/or by knocking them out (see somnophilia). She does the latter to Norm himself when she first presents her problem to him in his private office, and the former to Monique's former boyfriend (in a date which Norm later arranged for them).

* A house cleaner, who is aroused by pubic hair. Therefore, she either collects it from her clients' houses or sneaks up on her male clients and plucks their pubic hair directly.

* A man who is arroused by cats.

* A man who is a bodybuilder, but feels his penis is too small.

* A woman who can only reach orgasms while standing upside down on her head.

* A pool guy who can't help peeing into his clients' swimming pools for arousal.

* A "handicapped" gay man, who uses his wheelchair as an excuse to stare at crotches. He's unable to do so directly, as he feels unwanted in the gay community due to his older age.

Somehow, Norm and Monique manage to find the right match for each of their clients as well as for themselves. Thus ending the movie on the positive note that there's a right match out there for everybody.

References

External links

* [http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=11455 "The Deviants"] review at the DVD Talk website