Plot Summary: "My Normal" is the story of Natalie, a young lesbian from the Lower East
Side, who's struggling to find a balance between her dreams of becoming
a film maker and her lifestyle as a dominatrix. Her exotic looks and
unconventional techniques make her one of the most desirable mistresses
in the NYC underground. After befriending her weed dealer and igniting a
steamy love affair with her new girl, Natalie gets an internship on a
real movie set. But if everything she ever wanted is becoming a reality,
why is her life falling apart? When it seems that all is lost, Natalie
realizes that the only way to turn her dreams into reality is to use her
unique talents as a dominatrix to get exactly what she wants.
IMDB Ratings: 4.2/10 from 480 users
Release Date: 2009
(USA)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director: Irving Schwartz
Writers: Abdul Malik Abbott, Renee Garzon, 2 more credits »
Stars: Nicole LaLiberte, Ty Jones, Dawn Noel | See full cast and crew »
Storyline:
"My Normal" is the story of Natalie, a young lesbian from the Lower East
Side, who's struggling to find a balance between her dreams of becoming
a film maker and her lifestyle as a dominatrix. Her exotic looks and
unconventional techniques make her one of the most desirable mistresses
in the NYC underground. After befriending her weed dealer and igniting a
steamy love affair with her new girl, Natalie gets an internship on a
real movie set. But if everything she ever wanted is becoming a reality,
why is her life falling apart? When it seems that all is lost, Natalie
realizes that the only way to turn her dreams into reality is to use her
unique talents as a dominatrix to get exactly what she wants.
My Normal User Reviews:
The
greatest redeeming quality of My Normal is that it's so awful it
becomes fun (I use that term dangerously loosely) to watch. There are so
few truly quality movies produced in the lesbian genre, a quote from a
genuinely good movie comes to mind, and forgive me for paraphrasing:
(Audiences are|) so thirsty for it they'll crawl through the desert
toward a mirage, and when they discover there's no water, they'll drink
the sand." The LGBT audience too often praises movies that in the
mainstream would be considered unwatchable. When crumbs are all you get,
you learn to appreciate even the most indigestible morsels.
The
acting here, with the exception of Nicole LaLiberte and Ty Jones, is
routinely atrocious. Other actors here simply act as set dressing for
the leads. But the producers seem set on damning even their lead
character by constantly placing a lit cigarette in her hand. The
problem? She so obviously doesn't smoke, she looks like a 12-year old
playing at grown-up. Ty Jones, playing a street-wise writer, is given
such an astonishingly lack of vocabulary you wonder how he ever wrote a
page of dialogue.
It's probably a good idea to have some vague
knowledge of the content about which you write a script, but that
doesn't stop anyone here. This film's projected as an erotic romp, but
with the exception of a single scene or two, it's as innocuous as any
prime-time show. Unless, of course, you define erotic as dildos sitting
on counters, tables, chairs and stools.
There are few redeeming
qualities in the script. The dialogue is actually laughable; see if you
can get through an hour and 15 without talking back to the screen.
Emotion is non-existent. The answer to stress relief, stress, employment
and social lubrication is drugs. And what exceedingly few plot lines
are interesting are never followed to their end. This film would much
rather go for a broad laugh, yet it misses over and over. Truly, people
from all walks of life should be offended by this movie.
There
should be more LGBT content out there; God knows there's an audience.
But of what does exist, there are scores of better choices than this
self-satisfied "comedy."
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