Movie Review: An Absurd Trip to Hollywood in 'Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass'
The raunchy comedy sends Gail Daughtry to Los Angeles after Jennifer Aniston sleeps with her fiancé, setting up a celebrity chase for Jon Hamm.
- On Thursday, July 9, Sony Pictures Classics releases 'Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass' in limited theaters, starring Zoey Deutch as a Kansas hairdresser pursuing actor Jon Hamm.
- After her fiancé, Tom , uses his 'celebrity sex pass' on Jennifer Aniston, Gail Daughtry embarks on a 'Wizard of Oz'-like journey to Los Angeles with coworker Otto .
- Director David Wain and co-writer Ken Marino gathered an ensemble including John Slattery, Ben Wang, and Miles Gutierrez-Riley, with cameos from Paul Rudd and Weird Al Yankovic throughout the 94-minute runtime.
- Complications arise when Gail accidentally acquires a briefcase belonging to criminal Ludovica , forcing the group into action-packed confrontations while attempting to locate Hamm in Hollywood.
- Rated R for sexual content and violence, the film receives mixed reviews; critics describe it as 'wildly uneven but often very funny,' though some find the screenplay aimless per Wain's chaotic style.
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A little more than halfway through the extremely silly “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass,” the main character questions the very idea behind her journey, and, by extension, the movie itself. In it, Zoey Deutch’s character Gail embarks on a “Wizard of Oz”-like journey from Kansas to Hollywood to even the score with her fiance and have sex with her celebrity free-pass: Jon Hamm. “Ridiculous. It’s stupid. Just an utterly pointless premise,”…
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Movie Review: An absurd trip to Hollywood in 'Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass'
Zoey Deutch plays a Kansas hairdresser who embarks on a journey to Los Angeles to have sex with Jon Hamm in “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.”
‘Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass’ Review: Somewhere over the rainbow... is Jon Hamm!
One wouldn’t expect an affectionate send-up of 'The Wizard of Oz' to be so manic and sex-crazed, but David Wain, Ken Marino, and the game cast led by Zoey Deutch manage to make it work.
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