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Hustler White (2002)

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DIRECTOR: Rick Castro, Bruce La Bruce
STARRING: Tony Ward, Bruce La Bruce, Alex Austin, Kevin Kramer, Ron Athey
LANGUAGE: English
RUN TIME: 79 mins
RATING: R Not for sale to persons under age 18.

Product Code: 712267960729

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This, the third opus from Canadian bad-boy director LaBruce, delves into the world of L.A. male prostitutes and gleefully criss-crosses the lines between daring and boring; porn and art; and avant-garde satire and obnoxious gross-out. Jurgen Anger (LaBruce) is a prissy German writer who falls hard for Monti Ward (Tony Ward), a street hustler thug.

Offering half-hearted homages to such films as Sunset Boulevard and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, the action jerks from this brief outline of a plot to a series of disconnected sexual encounters, whose only commonality is that the sex involves everything except the loving kind. There are cigarette burns, skin-head mummification, razors slashing flesh, and a gang bang by a roomful of black men on a compliant blond. There�s also occasional humor and appearances by some familiar faces (performance artist Ron Athey, porn star Kevin Kramer).

But overall, the film has a curious lifeless quality, like we�re watching a film made by a director who doesn�t give a fuck, featuring actors only awkwardly enacting out what they are instructed to do and a plot more interested in simple shock value. But any film which infuriates a gay male audience and prompts furious walkouts (most noticeable during a sex scene involving an amputee and his plunging stump of a leg) can�t be all bad. It�s bad LaBruce but still infuriating watchable.