Virtual Sexuality (1999)

A frustrated teenage girl creates her perfect man in a virtual reality machine and in a freak accident gives him life with hilarious results!

Director:

Nick Hurran

Writers:

Chloe Rayban (novel), Nick Fisher

Stars:

Laura Fraser, Rupert Penry-Jones, Luke de Lacey

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Laura Fraser	...	Justine Alice Parker
Rupert Penry-Jones	...	Jake
Luke de Lacey	...	Chas Lovett
Kieran O'Brien	...	Alex Thorne
Steve John Shepherd	...	Jason, Narcissus Guy
Marcelle Duprey	...	Fran
Natasha Bell	...	Isabel Yasmin 'Hoover' Clarke
Laura MacAulay	...	Monica, Narcissus Girl
Roger Frost	...	Frank Lovett
Ruth Sheen	...	Jackie Lovett
Laura Aikman	...	Lucy Parker
Ram John Holder	...	Declan
Amanda Holden	...	Shoe Shop Assistant
Alan Westaway	...	Geoff
William Osborne	...	Sex Shop Assistant

Storyline

Desperate to find her perfect man Justine goes to a technology fair with her nerdy classmate Chas. It's not really her thing but is eventually persuaded to try a virtual reality makeover machine and discovers that she can create her perfect man even if it is only an electronic facsimile. The power surge from a freakish accident causes a part of her psyche to be copied into her virtual perfect man and he becomes real! Chas befriends the somewhat disoriented newly created man, who calls himself Jake, and he explains that it is really Justine inside. Justine is immediately attracted to Jake but he seems more interested in the voluptuous, man-eater known as "the Hoover" who seems to posses an innate ability to attract men without even trying! In sheer frustration Justine decides to date the sleazy Alex in an attempt to become a woman. As the day of the big date looms what will Chas and Jake do to thwart Justine and eventually what will become of Jake?

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Plot Keywords:

virtual reality | teenage girl | male frontal nudity | human relationship | teenager | 

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Taglines:

If you can't find the perfect guy, make one!

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for nudity, sexuality and related language

Details

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 July 1999 (UK)

Also Known As:

Sexualidad virtual

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$43,865 (USA) (3 December 1999)

Gross:

$43,865 (USA) (3 December 1999)

Company Credits

Production Co:

The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

Labourer #1: Hello, Darlin'
Justine: No! You can't just do that! You can't stand in a hole with your arse hanging out and yell 'Hello Darlin'. Its not fair!

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Connections

References Red Dwarf (1988)

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Soundtracks

"Toy"
Written by Moa, Eythor Arnalds
Performed by Moa

User Reviews

Starts out funny enough...

While the premise of this film has been done, it starts out with enough freshness and humor to keep you watching. Justine's early escapades inside the body of her own "perfect man" are quite humorous and Rupert Penry-Jones as Jake does a great job portraying a man, with the "personality" of a teenage girl, Justine. But past the halfway mark this film loses complete direction. We grow to really like the endearing Jake, but we discover that Justine is also a separate entity to him, (i.e. the machine made a double of Justine as a man, so there are two of them, one male, one female). And then the film follows Justine in her efforts to snag Jake, (as she doesn't know he is really her). The movie tries to make her the central character again, and fails because we really don't care anymore -- she's hardly as interesting. It also takes a detour at the moment when some intriguing and more controversial issues are about to be raised. Jake is being seduced by a girl at school that everyone calls, "hoover",(take a guess why), and after she spends sometime kissing him on the street, we never see her again. It raises an interesting question of sexual preference, i.e. justine inside a man's body being attracted to a woman, but the movie skirts the issue, wanting instead to regress into a high school soap opera. At the close of the film Jake is deleted in a quick wrap-up effort to make this a movie about loving yourself and waiting to lose your virginity to a "nice guy," who may not have the looks, but has the personality. Its hokey sub-plot about the scientists trying to recapture Jake to perform scientific experiments on him only hinders the movie even more, making certain scenes into a slapstick comedy. Its unfortunate that something could start out interesting enough and plummet so quickly. But the first half-an-hour is worth watching, if for nothing else than Rupert Penry-Jones (Jake)as he "explores" his new masculine body.