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2.6/10   85 votes
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Director:
Brad T. Gottfred
Writer:
Brad T. Gottfred (writer)
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Release Date:
2008 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama
Plot:
ORGIES AND THE MEANING OF LIFE is an eccentric and exciting film illuminating the inner and outer life of Baxter Goode... more | add synopsis
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IMDb's unfortunate summaries more

Cast

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Brad T. Gottfred ... Baxter

Lindsay Wray ... Allison
Katherine Carlson ... Denny
Jackie Mah ... Leslie

Julie Hays ... Andrea
Kathy Tinder ... Georgia

Lena Bookall ... Claire
Brooks Douglass ... Jack Goode

Remy Thorne ... Child Baxter
Gloria Grant ... Baxter's Mom
Michael Okarma ... Theodore

Bonnie Wickeraad ... Emma

Taya Asimos ... Samantha
Ursula Vari ... Adelaide
Courtney Rackley ... Mystery Girl
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Additional Details

Runtime:
USA:90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
USA:Approved
Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Company:
Cyur Films more

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62 out of 85 people found the following comment useful:-
IMDb's unfortunate summaries, 5 November 2008
1/10
Author: groggo from Toronto, Canada wmmacd@hotmail.com

This was a pretty flimsy film that tried for artsy and ended up as an excursion in confusion. It tries to be 'profound' and 'existential,' yet it is never for a moment convincing.

If you read the IMDb summary for this film, you'd think you were in for something really special, a once-in-a-lifetime examination of a young man's travail. The problem is, the gushing summary was submitted, word-for-word, through the film's website.

IMDb has to clean up its act. This flagrant 'puff-piece' by the film's principals and promoters should never have appeared on IMDb as an 'objective' summary of the film itself.

Basically, the story concerns a young man's desire to have his book published. It's a book about stick figures trying to find meaning that transcends orgies with real and imaginary women. The young man searches for 'The One,' which is shorthand for what mere mortals used to call 'a true love'. In this film, 'The One,' a hackneyed term at the best of times, becomes an over-inflated motif for bargain-basement philosophy. The film is little more than an examination of a man's angst in trying to find himself. Despite IMDb's unctuous, self-serving summary, there's nothing new here at all.

This is not an existential film. It's just another 'coming of age' flick that haughtily pretends it's something else.

I've said it before: IMDb very often cannot be trusted as a reliable source for film summaries and even criticism. Many of the people who give outrageously high ratings on the IMDb board are those who made the film and their myriad friends. At best, it's spectacularly misleading.

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