Taglines: Scam or be scammed!
Set in New York, Whipped is about a group of three single men, buddies from college, whom meet every Sunday at their local diner hangout to discuss their favorite sport: scoring with women. Their conversations (always revealing, sometimes revolting, and occasionally riotous) revolve around the weekend past and the girls that these three egotistical and narcissistic swingers were able or unable to “scam.”
However, when all three single guys unknowingly go after the same “perfect” woman, Mia (Amanda Peet), they begin to question their skirt-chasing ways. Squabbling breaks out amongst the group as they compete for her attention and suddenly, the fate of their ritual and their friendships, becomes uncertain. Who will win the morning round table bragging rights? You’ll be surprised.
Whipped is a 2000 comedy film directed by Peter M. Cohen. It stars Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt, Judah Domke, Zorie Barber, Jonathan Abrahams, Callie Thorne, Montse Viader, Linda Udd, Jill Sorensen and Elaina Erika Davis. The film was the feature debut for writer and director Peter M. Cohen.
Film Review for Whipped
”Whipped” may set an all-time record for raw tonnage of sexual fear and loathing spewed per minute by a Hollywood movie. This bottom-feeding monstrosity of a comedy was produced, directed and written by Peter M. Cohen, whose screenplay conjures more leering euphemisms for male body parts and sexual acts than any film in recent memory.
The characters who sling the dirt are three Manhattan yuppies who take nasty relish in ”scamming” attractive young women into sleeping with them. Brad (Brian Van Holt), the slickest of the three, likes to approach strangers and pretend to be their best friend’s brother. That best friend is always named Jen, he sneers, since ”they all have friends named Jen.” In his mind’s eye, Brad is a sophisticated Manhattan answer to Tom Cruise in ”Risky Business.”
Zeke (Zorie Barber), who has no doubts that he’s the coolest dude on the planet, identifies with the young Mickey Rourke and affects a shallow post-Beat hipness. Jonathan (Jonathan Abrahams), the sensitive one, wears a goatee and talks about being in touch with his feminine side. Hanging on to their coattails is their old friend Eric (Judah Domke), who has been married for two years and tries (but fails) to impress them with his tales of domestic sexual exploits involving a juicer and an egg beater.
Who are these guys anyway? They must be fairly well heeled. Yet for men in their 20’s, they talk as if their brains were implants wrested from frightened 14-year-old male virgins. Each week this pathetic group meets for Sunday breakfast, where they exchange gross-out descriptions of their latest conquests. These rap sessions, in which the euphemisms fly, make up most of the movie’s attempts at humor. But the dirty talk is so painfully forced and emphatic it lacks any comic spontaneity. Even the movie’s signature gross-out bit, in which a young man desperately tries to retrieve a whirring vibrator from an unflushed toilet, is bungled.
At one Sunday brunch Brad, Zeke and Jonathan rhapsodize over having finally met that special someone whom they can actually respect. Their dream dates turn out to be the same woman, Mia (Amanda Peet), who picked up all three within a matter of days. Mia has that rare knack of being all things to all men: beautiful, sensual, caring, worshipful, a perfect companion and sizzling bed partner.
There are moments when this dirty-mouthed revenge comedy becomes so mean-spirited that you almost gasp at its cruelty. As the crafty Mia carries on simultaneous affairs with these besotted idiots, vowing to each that he’s the one she truly loves, they unaccountably turn on one other instead of on her. When we finally hear Mia’s side of the story, her contemptuous evaluations of these self-styled Don Juans’ sexual performance and physical attributes carry comic sexual warfare in the movies to a new low.
Whipped (2000)
Directed by: Peter M. Cohen
Starring: Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt, Judah Domke, Zorie Barber, Jonathan Abrahams, Callie Thorne, Montse Viader, Linda Udd, Jill Sorensen, Elaina Erika Davis
Screenplay by: Peter M. Cohen
Production Design by: Katherine M. Szilagyi
Cinematography by: Peter B. Kowalski
Film Editing by: Tom McArdle
Costume Design by: Karen Kozlowski
Set Decoration by: Colette Miller
art Direction by: Svetlana Rabey
Music by: Michael Montes
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexual content and language.
Distributed by: Destination Films
Release Date: September 1, 2000
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