Shortbus (2006)

Directed by

John Cameron Mitchell

Genre

drama film, comedy drama, erotic film, romance film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 589 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of New Yorkers in their twenties and thirties navigate relationships and personal struggles. They find connection at a weekly salon that mixes art and sex in a Brooklyn apartment.

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What happens

Shortbus is a 2006 American erotic comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell. The plot revolves around a sexually diverse ensemble of colorful characters trying desperately to connect in an early 2000s New York City. The characters converge in a weekly Brooklyn artistic/sexual salon loosely inspired by various underground NYC gatherings that took place in the early 2000s. According to Mitchell, the film attempts to "employ sex in new cinematic ways because it's too interesting to leave to porn." Shortbus includes a variety of explicit scenes containing non-simulated sexual intercourse with visible penetration and male ejaculation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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