CompleteMartialArts.com - In the Flesh
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Manufacturer: Wolfe Video
Starring: Dane Ritter, Sandi Scheier, Ed Corbin, Shimley Reynolds, Randy Cohlmia
Directed By: Ben Taylor
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0754703761576
Format: Color
Label: Wolfe Video
Manufacturer: Wolfe Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Wolfe Video
Release Date: 2000-08-22
Running Time: 105
Studio: Wolfe Video
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Editorial Reviews:
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Phillip Kirsch (hulking Ed Corbin) is having a bad day: he's a closeted undercover cop in Atlanta who has fallen for Oliver (Dane Ritter), a clean-cut male prostitute who is the prime suspect in a murder and narcotics case. What's a guy to do? Writer-director Ben Taylor's amusingly awful, deadly earnest drama would have us believe that, of course, Kirsch supplies an alibi for the troubled hunk and they both learn to love while dodging his superiors and the real killer. The laughable police practices here seem gleaned from bad TV--cops pass manila folders around and mutter things like "Good work, kid"--and the hustler bar where Oliver spends his evenings is even more of a hoot. Phillip is first smitten after watching Oliver sway awkwardly near the club's jukebox, a solitary tear running down his face. "Being in love," we are told, "is not much fun." There's not much flesh here, dammit, but there's a bit of accidental fun. On DVD, you can watch all this in letterbox format, with deluded commentary from Taylor himself. --Steve Wiecking
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: I LIKED IT
Comment: I LIKED IT ENOUGH TO BUY IT. NOT AN ANG LEE, BUT REALLY EARNEST AND HONEST. AND I LIKE THE ENDING BETTER!!!! MOVIE QUEENS MAY PAN IT BUT I SAY, GET IT AND MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND.
Customer Rating:
Summary: In the Flesh
Comment: In the Flesh was not in the Flesh...but the guys were hot.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A fresh breath from the average gay movie
Comment: Atlanta. Cops. Drugs. Murder. Sex. Accusations. Hustling. Double lives. Sound familiar? Now add gay love between the cop and the hustler. Sound familiar? Didn't think so.
In the Flesh takes on quite a task, and it does so well. Oliver (Dane Ritter) is the sexiest guy working the hustler bar. He's 21, he's a full-time student, he comes from money, he has the looks....and he's been using them, every night, for years. Then one night, life gets quite a bit more complicated. First, he catches the eye of an older man, Philip (Ed Corbin). Little does he know, Philip is an undercover cop trying to bust the place for drugs. Turns out, however, drugs take a back seat to
attraction, and Mr. Cop develops quite the interest in Mr. Sex Worker. Needless to say, the disaster has only begun. Soon thereafter, Oliver becomes a suspect in a murder case when one of his regulars dies in a car wreck. What ensues is an extremely difficult series of decisions for everyone -- does Philip trust Oliver? Does Oliver trust Philip? When does a trick become a life-changing partner? Can they both dig themselves out? Why did all this happen?
I'm not going to say that In the Flesh is the best movie I've ever seen, but it's definitely good. It's unique, intense, at times entertaining, certainily thought-provoking, and overall, a fresh breath from the average gay movie.
Customer Rating:
Summary: a little more Flesh ....Please!
Comment: This movie is so bad. that it's almost Good!
In the Flesh. the story of the timid relationship
between a very Hot! vice cop and a clean cut middle class
male postitute. Could have been a much better film that it
was.
The dialog and the scenes looked as if it was lifted from
a bad 70's cop tv series!
The only saving grace for the film is that you get to salivate
over Ed Corbin's very big, and very hot body! Almost worth
the price!
Perhaps this could have been a better film if a more daring
studio had made it.
With a better script and a little more sex, it would've been
great!
Customer Rating:
Summary: I loved it!
Comment: Almost anything is better than a big budget Hollywood movie. I have to chuckle while reading some of the reveiws of In The Flesh because people are saying the story, the scenes, the acting are all implausible. Have you watched a Hollywood movie lately?? Even the rolling credits of those movies are implausible.
I know guys exactly like Phillip Kirsch...the strong, brooding, silent type. And Oliver is the unlikely prostitute with a heart of gold. Many viewed this movie as a gay detective-murder-mystery movie. I didn't. I saw it as a struggling love story between to supposed opposites--a cop and a prostitute. Both Phillip and Oliver are sruggling to find middle ground. Oliver is stuck doing what he does in order to keep perpetuating a bad situation--supporting his sister's drug habit. Phillip comes off as the straight laced, pure cop who struggles to enjoy life and have fun.
I think the movie is much more complex that first meets the eye. I think there is much more to the alibi than meets the eye. Does Phillip provide Oliver with an alibi because he fell instantly in love with him or does Phillip, as a cop, instinctively know that Oliver didn't do it and therefore doesn't want to see an innocent person get charged with a crime?
One reviewer wrote that the only people who like this film are those who aren't used to seeing gay themed films....WRONG! I primarily watch gay themed films, have seem hundreds of them....and I still loved In the Flesh.
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