Dirty Love (film)

Dirty Love
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Mallory Asher
Written by	Jenny McCarthy
Produced by	John Mallory Asher B. J. Davis Rod Hamilton Kimberley Kates Michael Manasseri Jenny McCarthy Trent Walford
Starring	Jenny McCarthy Eddie Kaye Thomas Carmen Electra Victor Webster Kam Heskin
Cinematography	Eric Wycoff
Edited by	Warren Bowman
Music by	D. A. Young
Production companies	Big Screen Entertainment Group DEJ Productions Double Down Entertainment Palisades Pictures
Distributed by	First Look International
Release dates	January 2005 (2005-01) (Sundance) September 23, 2005 (2005-09-23)
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$36,099

Dirty Love is a 2005 American romantic comedy film written by Jenny McCarthy and directed by John Mallory Asher. The film stars McCarthy alongside Eddie Kaye Thomas, Carmen Electra, Victor Webster and Kam Heskin. The film follows a photographer's misadventures in dating after her boyfriend cheats on her.

The film was first shown at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival followed by a limited theatrical release on September 23, 2005. Dirty Love was universally panned by critics who criticized its humor, screenplay, acting, Asher's direction, and cinematography. At the 26th Golden Raspberry Awards, the film won four of its six razzie nominations, including Worst Picture, Worst Screenplay, Worst Director, and Worst Actress for McCarthy. It is often considered to be one of the worst films of all time.

Plot

Struggling photographer Rebecca Sommers finds her model boyfriend Richard in bed with another woman. Her life falls apart, and she alternates between desire for revenge upon him, sexual promiscuity, and abandonment of all hope of love. Her best friends, Michelle and Carrie, try to set her up on dates. These include one with a freakish magician and another with a man who gives her ecstasy and has a fetish for fish. She attempts to make Richard jealous by taking a director, who is reminiscent of Woody Allen, to a runway show, but he ends up vomiting on her breasts in front of everyone.

Ultimately, Rebecca realizes she should focus her energy on being with someone who truly loves her, and that turns out to be John, her nerdy, effeminate but caring best male friend who has been supportive of her through the entire ordeal.

Cast

• Jenny McCarthy as Rebecca Sommers
• Eddie Kaye Thomas as John
• Carmen Electra as Michelle López
• Victor Webster as Richard
• Kam Heskin as Carrie Winters
• Deryck Whibley as Tony
• Guillermo Díaz as Tom Houdini

Development

At the time of filming, McCarthy and Asher were married; they divorced the month the film was released.

Release

Box office

Dirty Love opened theatrically on September 23, 2005, in 44 venues and earned $23,281 in its opening weekend. The film ended its run two weeks later, on October 6, 2005, having grossed a mere $36,099 in the domestic box office.

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 6% of 31 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 2.8/10. The website's consensus reads: "The laugh-free Dirty Love is a comedy dead zone -- it's aggressively crude and shoddily constructed." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 9 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".

Film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave a rare zero-star rating and said it was the third-worst film of 2005. In his written review, he stated, "Here is a film so pitiful, it doesn't rise to the level of badness. It is hopelessly incompetent."

Stephen Holden of The New York Times gave the film 0/5 stars, writing: "Even by the standards of its bottom-feeding genre, 'Dirty Love' clings to the gutter like a rat in garbage."

Jeremy C. Fox of Pajiba highlighted ironic enjoyment of the film, stating, "Dirty Love is in the worst possible taste. It has crossed the Himalayas of bad taste and come out the other side. And for that reason, if no other, I kinda love it." He concludes, "The response to Dirty Love says less about the movie than it does the bullying, herd-following nature of most movie critics." Oz of eFilmCritic gave the film 3/5 and said "Dirty Love is a surprisingly good effort that will fall short only because of poor direction, poor editing, and the stigma of the lead having only previously been involved in crap."

Awards and honors

Award	Category	Recipient	Result
Golden Raspberry Awards	Worst Picture		Won
	Worst Director	John Mallory Asher	Won
	Worst Actress	Jenny McCarthy	Won
	Worst Supporting Actress	Carmen Electra	Nominated
	Worst Screenplay	Jenny McCarthy	Won
	Worst Screen Couple	Jenny McCarthy and "anyone dumb enough to befriend or date her"	Nominated
Stinkers Bad Movie Awards	Worst Picture		Nominated
	Worst Actress	Jenny McCarthy	Nominated
	Worst Supporting Actress	Carmen Electra	Nominated
	Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy		Nominated
	Most Annoying Fake Accent (Female)	Carmen Electra	Nominated

See also

• List of American films of 2005

External links

• Dirty Love at IMDb
• Dirty Love at Box Office Mojo
• Dirty Love at Rotten Tomatoes
• Dirty Love at Metacritic