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Title: An Awkward Sexual Adventure (2012)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jonas Chernick | ... | Jordan Abrams | |
| Emily Hampshire | ... | Julia Bowe | |
| Sarah Manninen | ... | Rachel Stern | |
| Vik Sahay | ... | Dandak | |
| Melissa Marie Elias | ... | Reshma (as Melissa Elias) | |
| Marina Stephenson Kerr | ... | Ruth | |
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Mike Bell | ... | Naked Tom |
| Andrea del Campo | ... | Sapphire | |
| Onalee Ames | ... | Gypsy the Stripper | |
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Randy Apostle | ... | Rabbi Finklestein |
| Dean Harder | ... | Bank Manager | |
| Tamara Gorski | ... | Tanya | |
| Sarah Constible | ... | Kelly | |
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Jessica Burleson | ... | Melanie |
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Stephen Eric McIntyre | ... | Spike the Bouncer |
Thirty-seven year old Winnipeg-based accountant Jordan Abrams, a proverbial doormat of a man, has pined after Rachel Stern since he was twelve. He finally got her to be his girlfriend last year after she being a peripheral or not so peripheral part of his life all these years. Now, in a relationship for a year, Jordan plans on asking her to marry him on a week-long romantic vacation they are taking to Niagara Falls. Rachel not only decides not to go on the trip, but dumps him when he, learning that she isn't going, asks her to marry him the day before the trip instead. The primary reason she dumps him?: he's lousy in bed, she not being able to envision bad, boring sex with him for the rest of her life. Rachel convinces him to take the vacation by himself, instead hanging out in Toronto with his college friend Dandak, his return from the vacation when they will talk about the break-up in more detail. Dandak, a sex machine, sees his role in his mending his friend's broken heart as ... Written by Huggo
In addition to hot chicks, it gets a point for a double-entendre in the title. There are multiple awkward adventures and the main adventurer is truly awkward. Something along the lines of a romantic comedy involving a socially awkward, insecure man, or possibly even worse, socially retarded.
The version I saw probably needs a cut or 2 to get an R or NC17 rating for theaters, which should give you the correct impression that it's also a very sexual film. There's plenty of sexual, adventurous fun to help balance the awkwardness and to avoid this becoming a gross-out comedy.
It's mainly over-the-top comedy with a lot of role reversals to add surprises (the direction of the film becomes as obvious as where men entering a sex club are going). The writer/director also throws in enough loops to make you wonder.
Besides capturing discomfort on film, add this to the list of 2012 films (For a Good Time Call, Giant Mechanical Man) using a breakup to launch a distinct story with some innovative techniques that don't require massive FX or superstar actors.