How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town (2015) Reviews

• It's rather adult...which should come as a surprise to no one!

  MartinHafer2016-01-11

  With a title like "How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town", you can pretty much expect that this will be an adult film...and it is very adult at times. Sex is talked about throughout the film and the ending consists of a lot of folks getting naked and having steamy sex. However, despite all the sex talk and nudity towards the end, it's not as gratuitous as you might imagine and the nudity isn't especially graphic or gratuitous. Beneath it all, it's a story about people and characters...albeit rather horny, repressed and screwed up ones. So, if you are easily offended or embarrassed, you probably should look elsewhere. Otherwise, it's a pleasant film and I'd like to see more from these folks in the future...more films that is, not necessarily more of them...if you know what I mean. When the story begins, Cassie is a teenager and is about to lose her virginity. However, instead of a night of love and passion that she'll never forget, it turns out to be a night of total embarrassment that she'll probably never live down! The film then jumps 12 years ahead. Cassie apparently left this small town long ago and her way of dealing with the embarrassment and nasty 'friends' is by writing a column about sex...and now she's considered a worldwide sexpert. However, when her mother dies, she forces herself to return to this hated Canadian small town and deal with the folks she's longed to forget. At first, they are stuffy and nasty...just as she expects. In particular, Heather treats her awfully...just like 12 years ago. However, something strange soon happens...this same snooty and stuck up Heather decides to see just how liberated Cassie really is and suggests that she host an orgy! Plus, Heather has a hidden agenda through all this. Cassie at first declines...but eventually, oddly, agrees. But the road to hot, sweaty, amoral sex is a very bumpy one...especially since everyone, including Cassie, end up having quite a few sexual hang-ups. Will this crazed orgy take place...or will it simply be a case of all talk and little, if any, action? The film's plot is all about sex...there's no way around that. By the end of the film a lot of folks are having sex..in fact, pretty much everyone is. That's not exactly a surprise. But what makes the film worth seeing isn't the bits of nudity and titillation but the little stories you see as well as the fullness of the characters. I enjoyed most of the stories though I felt that they were occasionally a bit uneven and difficult to believe. At times, it seems like a comedy but at other times it's a bit dark and even sad..plus who acts like these folks?! This made the experience of watching the film a bit odd to say the least. And, overall it was still a very good and very original movie...and it's worth seeing with someone you love. By the way, writer/director Jeremy Lalonde has mostly helmed short movies before this film and I expect that he'll only continue to improve with future projects--so he's definitely someone to watch. Also, interestingly, like quite a few new films lately, this one was crowd funded and seems to have made the most of a rather small budget.

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• Below expectations

  alle-64-5547022016-04-05

  Don*t expect too much: the trailer let you expect a funny, clever story with good actors and some tasty erotic. The story is good, but presented uninspired, many gags are lame and flat and finally, the graphic could easily be described as prude. OK, right: a movie with a story like that does with the right skills not need nudity at all. But with a scene the male actor clawing into the breast of the him riding woman to avoid nudity the film becomes hypocrite and lame ! The most explicit scene is a young, half naked no name actress, the rest is uptight avoidance. If they would play everything fully clothed, it would at least be art. Grow up, America !

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• Not At All Funny --- Even Less Sexy

  MikeSNation2017-02-11

  It took me two attempts to get through this movie, and the only reason I did is that I'm the type of person who absolutely insists on watching an entire movie unless it is completely unwatchable. I fell asleep on the first attempt, and got through the second time though it wasn't any better. I was wide awake on both attempts. This movie is not that horrid, but it is quite boring with a predictable and unfunny script. The acting is not great but I've seen the stars of this (the two main female leads) in other movies where they were fantastic, so I think the real problem here is that they didn't have much to work with (again, the script). It just seems like a lazy, boring movie, where they probably got funding from a studio based entirely on walking in and saying "hey we can get these two sexy women to be in a movie that's about an orgy" and then they coasted on that. It's not at all funny and even less sexy.

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• Mature but restrained, adult but innocent

  envision-greater2016-09-15

  I'm surprised this doesn't have more reviews. I went in not expecting much more than a naughty indie film trying to sell the movie on the title and the premise. I came out the other end charmed and laughing at the honest silliness of it all. It's a truthful look at small-town folk who feel it's time to infuse a little excitement into their lives. Jewel Staite doesn't even have to try and she's adorably down to earth, and the rest of the cast fills out the ranks in fun, albeit sometimes one-note, tones. If you're expecting excessive nudity and R-rated raunchiness, you're looking in the wrong place (although there's a brief topless streaking scene early on - the only real nudity in the movie). Instead, this really is a small-town/intimate/true-to-life look at what happens when lifetime friends and neighbors decide an orgy is the answer to all their woes. Things get awkward, personal discoveries are made, and the movie ends with the most inspiring/heartfelt/upbeat orgasm face montage and streaking scene you'll ever see. It sounds funny, I know, but it's a sweet film with a sugary adult ending. Give it a try. I was pleasantly surprised.

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• Not Funny

  liseroy-068652017-04-20

  This movie is just not funny. I am not sure what else to say since I don't think this movie has anything else going for it at all either. I was very disappointed. The two main actresses in this are actually very good in most other things I have seen them in. The main reason we watched this were because these actresses were in it but the movie was just awful. I don't know if they just turned in an unusually bad performance or if they were just coasting or in it for a quick pay check, or if they just had nothing to work with as far as a script and director went, or some combination of these things? But it was just a very bad, boring, unfunny movie. Also very unoriginal and predictable, and most of the other actors were just plain bad. Highly recommend skipping it.

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