Virtual Sexuality (1999)

Director:

Nick Hurran

Writers:

Chloe Rayban (novel)
Nick Fisher (writer)

Release Date:

2 July 1999 (UK)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

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

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Virtual Reality | Teenage Girl | Desire | Love | Sex

Cast

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

MPAA:

Rated R for nudity, sexuality and related language.

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Netherlands:12 | Iceland:L | Australia:M | Canada:14A | Sweden:11 | UK:15 | USA:R | Germany:12 | Argentina:16 | Finland:S

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Company:

The Noel Gay Motion Picture Company

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!

Movie Connections:

References "Red Dwarf" (1988)

Soundtrack:

Piano Concerto No 21

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.