SummaryJust how far will people go for Fame & Fortune? Just when you thought the whole reality craze could go no further, Games People Play: New York brings you seduction, bulimia, nudity, Tourette's Syndrome and some real f#$@ed-up behavior, all in what is truly America's most uninhibited game! (Artistic License Films)
Directed By:James Ronald Whitney
Written By:James Ronald Whitney
Games People Play: New York
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This is a serious look at the corrupting influences of fame, money and entertainment, and what it says about us may be even more damning than what it says about its participants.
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Whitney's body of work doesn't suggest a filmmaker so much as an opportunist with a video camera. He makes a very specific sort of reality movie. It's called porn.
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Aug 1, 2024
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I liked the music. It was well connected. The director managed to make a really beautiful movie. You just have to go and see
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There's no denying the freak-show appeal and you don't see frontal nudity like this on TV, but otherwise it's all as contrived and artificial as "Survivor."
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99 minutes of excruciating "reality."
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Rent a porno instead; it'll be less exploitative. God help us, two more of these things are planned.
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This artless, unpolished venture adds a heavy sex-and-skin factor to a poorly defined game show, lurching awkwardly between exploitative voyeurism, maudlin confessions and self-consciously risque titillation.
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The film doesn't know what it wants to be -- reality programming pushed to the max or a satire of reality TV? -- but it winds up as an exercise in the rankest sort of cynicism.
Aug 2, 2024
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I felt that the film was made with the purpose of telling about the goodness, fun, mistakes and happiness of young life. This is how the life of young people was in the early 2000s, and I thought that people would learn from the film many years later. I am sure that this movie will be a good movie with an interesting script and full of funny events.
Production Company:
- Fire Island Films
Release Date:Mar 12, 2004
Duration:1 h 37 m
Tagline:Just how far will people go for Fame and Fortune?
