Tagline: Got dumped?
Rebecca is devastated when she comes home one night and finds Richard, her supermodel boyfriend, with another woman in their bed. To mend her broken heart, she takes a strange trip of sexual encounters. With the help of a bossy psychic and her off-beat friends, Rebecca finds that the path to true love is right in front of her.
“Dirty Love” is a modern-day Cinderella story which sees disaster-prone Jenny McCarthy embark on an outrageous and hilarious journey in search of true love. In the film, Rebecca (McCarthy) is betrayed by her boyfriend and following a palm reader’s prophecy goes in search of her perfect partner. This riotous and entertaining dating spree gets her slapped by a fish at one point, and even lands her in jail!
A sexy woman discovers just how hard it can be to find a worthwhile man in this outrageous romantic comedy. Rebecca (Jenny McCarthy) is a beautiful blonde who thinks she has it made with her hunky boyfriend, Richard however, when she comes home early one day and finds him in bed with another woman, she realizes that isn’t quite the case.
Devastated, Rebecca takes the advice of her friends Carrie (Kam Heskin), a half-bright actress, and Michelle (Carmen Electra), a racially confused beautician, and throws herself back into the dating game to prove to Richard that she can do better.
However, there’s a problem — Rebecca is a bit of a klutz, she keeps ending up with men who are either crazy or strange, and each date she goes on ends in disaster. Does Rebecca have any chance at either finding new love or winning Richard back? And is it possible her pal John (Eddie Kaye Thomas) might be interested in being more than just friends? Dirty Love was written by leading lady Jenny McCarthy and directed by John Asher, McCarthy’s husband.
Review
The fame-famished onetime MTV hostess Jenny McCarthy wrote and stars in ”Dirty Love,” a gross-out comedy that proudly announces itself as carrying on the (ahem) cinematic tradition of ”Porky’s.” In its wildest dreams it does.
In this pitiful shambles of a sex farce, Ms. McCarthy is Rebecca, a struggling photographer who goes bonkers on discovering her crude lug of a boyfriend, Richard (Victor Webster), in bed with another girl. Each of the blind dates with whom she hopes to make him jealous is more pathetic than the last. One vomits on her as she pulls him onto her chest at a fashion show. Another botches the party trick of yanking the tablecloth out from under a meal and empties a restaurant dinner on her lap.
Rebecca’s two sidekicks — Michelle (Carmen Electra), a body waxer who speaks in preschool ebonics and imagines she’s black, and Carrie (Kam Heskin), a bimbo who confuses Woody Allen with Woody Harrelson — are of no help, either to Rebecca or to the movie.
In the most protracted gag, Rebecca suffers a menstrual crisis in a supermarket that leaves rivers of blood in the aisles. That embarrassment follows another gag (and I mean gag) involving body orifices stuffed with fish. Through it all, Rebecca’s nerdy male pal John (Eddie Kaye Thomas) pines to be the Prince Charming who will show her the difference between dirty and pure.
Even by the standards of its bottom-feeding genre, ”Dirty Love” clings to the gutter like a rat in garbage. Ms. McCarthy compensates for her utter lack of comedic skills by making clown faces and emitting earsplitting omigod’s after each humiliation. Think of her as the MTV-schooled version of Anna Nicole Smith: a self-abasing exhibitionist who would do absolutely anything to be noticed. By Stephen Holden, New York Times.
These production notes provided by First Look Pictures.
Dirty Love
Starring: Jenny McCarthy, Carmen Electra, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Victor Webster, Kathy Griffin, Kam Heskin, Sum 41
Directed by: John Asher
Screenplay by: Jenny McCarthy
Release: September 23, 2005
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexuality, crude humor, language and some drug use.
Studio: First Look Pictures
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $36,099 (100.0%)
Foreign: —
Total: $36,099 (Worldwide)