The Sex Monster (1999)

Marty Barnes gets more than he wishes for when he asks his wife to join him in a menage-a-trois. She loves it and he has created a Sex Monster.

Director:

Mike Binder

Writer:

Mike Binder

Stars:

Mariel Hemingway, Mike Binder, Renée Humphrey

3 wins.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mariel Hemingway	...	Laura Barnes
Mike Binder	...	Marty Barnes
Renée Humphrey	...	Didi
Taylor Nichols	...	Billy
Missy Crider	...	Diva
Christopher Lawford	...	Dave Pembroke
Joanna Heimbold	...	Evie Pembroke
Kevin Pollak	...	Dr. Jerry Berman
Stephen Baldwin	...	Murphy
Anita Barone	...	Carol
Kara Zediker	...	Ellen
Marisol Nichols	...	Lucia
Holland Taylor	...	Muriel
Melissa Denton	...	Salon Customer
Noah Stone	...	Danny

Storyline

A neurotic L.A. building contractor pushes his wife into entering into a three way sexual relationship. Unfortunately for him, his wife gets more out of it than he does and becomes a tigress seducing every female she meets including the contractor's secretary.

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Plot Keywords:

lesbian kiss | sex scene | bisexual woman | female frontal nudity | swimming pool | 

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Taglines:

A comedy that answers the question "What would happen if your wife said yes to a menage-a-trois... and loved it!"

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for strong sexual content including dialogue and for language

Did You Know?

Goofs

The first time Marty pours himself a cup of coffee and spills it, the spilled coffee disappears and his cup moves about between shots.

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Quotes

Marty Barnes: So, where are you from, Didi? Chicago or something?
Didi: I'm from all over. I'm an Army brat.
Marty Barnes: Army brat. That is intense. Tell us about it.
Didi: Well, I lived with my Dad on U.S. Army bases in Texas, Kentucky and elsewhere until I was 14. And then out of nowhere I met my Mom again. My parents got divorced when I was only a baby. I lived with her until we decided that we hated each other. And then I sort of hitchhiked around the country until I was 17 when I met this woman who I moved down to Miami, Florida ...
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Connections

Referenced in Creating 'The Upside of Anger' (2005)

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Soundtracks

Take The L Train (To 8th Ave.)
Written by Lati Kronlund
Performed by Brooklyn Funk Essentials
Courtesy of The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment

User Reviews

Mike Binder is no Woody Allen..

If Binder sold HBO on his pathetic "Mind of the Married Man" series based on having written and directed and starred in this film, it wouldn't surprise me, as both had a lot of the same elements and ideas, and both were equally lame.

Binder is no Woody Allen. For that matter, he's no Albert Brooks either. He's not even a Gene Wilder, about the most unlikely actor for a sex farce I can imagine, but then maybe women see some kind of appeal to that sad puppy personna..

But someone must think Binder is funny, else they wouldn't be throwing money at him as HBO did..

Sex Monster (don't let the title deceive you.. this isn't a movie about Godzilla humping Tokyo).. can be taken as a prequel to Mind of the Married Man with one exception.. instead of fantasizing and visualizing in his mind, other women in bed with his wife, this film explores the possibilities in a very tame way. If you're looking for Mariel Hemingway nude, forget it. In fact for a sex romp, this film has alarmingly little nudity at all. Lots of tease shots, and women moaning and groaning behind a closed bedroom door, one almost topless shot in a swimming pool, that's about it.

Mariel Hemingway, still gorgeous after all these years, and quite a screen presence, plays Binder's straight and faithful wife to whom he pitches the idea of a second woman in bed with them.. most every guy's unfulfilled fantasy.. at first put off by the concept, she aims to please him, she warms to it, then dives face first, as it were, into it, to the point that he got what he wished for and now he wants to un-wish it..

The way this film was shot and edited reminds me of an even tamer version of the way "adult" hardcore videos are presented on tape, versus how they end up on channels like "Spice" where you see the tops of a lot of heads bobbing up and down..

I kept waiting and waiting for the big payoff.. but this is a sex film with no "money shot", both literally and figuratively.

It's a one line joke that somehow got stretched to an hour an a half, and it moves at such a glacial pace that I actually fell asleep the first time I tried to watch it.

Mariel Hemingway is still beautiful, still talented, and she deserves to be pitched much better scripts than this one, and someone needs to tell Binder that his fantasies are simply just not rip-roaringly hilarious..

Details

Official Sites:

Sunlight Productions

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

15 May 1999 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Sex Monster

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Greentrees Films, Sun-Lite Pictures (II), Trimark Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1