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Though it begins promisingly enough, The Fluffer eventually descends into melodrama.
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Those in search of a film about gay men disillusioned in Hollywood with a better script and more dramatic heft should rent Gods And Monsters or Thom Fitzgerald's Beefcake. May 24, 2002 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Those in search of a film about gay men disillusioned in Hollywood with a better script and more dramatic heft should rent Gods And Monsters or Thom Fitzgerald's Beefcake.
Susan Walker
More tasteful, sensitive and original than you might imagine. Mar 29, 2002 | Rating: 4/5
More tasteful, sensitive and original than you might imagine.
Michael O'Sullivan
Glatzer and Wash try to explore the nature of obsession and the ambiguity of sexual categories in The Fluffer, but it's hard to give two hoots about any of these characters. Mar 22, 2002 | Full Review…
Glatzer and Wash try to explore the nature of obsession and the ambiguity of sexual categories in The Fluffer, but it's hard to give two hoots about any of these characters.
Edward Guthmann
A witty, sad, informed view of obsession, submission and the sex industry. Feb 21, 2002 | Rating: C+
A witty, sad, informed view of obsession, submission and the sex industry.
Jane Sumner
Johnny ... remains something of a cipher, and the film mostly shies away from the issues it raises. Feb 8, 2002 | Rating: 2/4
Johnny ... remains something of a cipher, and the film mostly shies away from the issues it raises.
Moira MacDonald
Glatzer and West's entertaining film mixes comedy with a more serious, if slightly unconvincing, end message about infatuation. Jan 21, 2002 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Glatzer and West's entertaining film mixes comedy with a more serious, if slightly unconvincing, end message about infatuation.
Jamie Russell
mostly limp drama aimed for a gay audience. Sep 7, 2014 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
mostly limp drama aimed for a gay audience.
Dennis Schwartz
Funny and sensitive for all its faults, The Fluffer is nevertheless unlikely to break out of the gay cinema ghetto. Dec 8, 2002 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
Funny and sensitive for all its faults, The Fluffer is nevertheless unlikely to break out of the gay cinema ghetto.
Bob Westal
Saturated with deep, rich color and low-key visual wit, and graced with sympathetic performances. Sep 30, 2002 | Full Review…
Saturated with deep, rich color and low-key visual wit, and graced with sympathetic performances.
Ernest Hardy
Bills itself 'both a satiric look at the porn industry and a dark tale of obsession' -- proof that self-description is often self-delusion. Aug 27, 2002 | Rating: D | Full Review…
Bills itself 'both a satiric look at the porn industry and a dark tale of obsession' -- proof that self-description is often self-delusion.
Brent Simon
The film never follows its own logic, but also never goes down the path you think it will Aug 19, 2002 | Full Review…
The film never follows its own logic, but also never goes down the path you think it will
Jason Clark
...too much of the lives of the stars of "The Fluffer" and not enough of the examination of the porn business. Jul 1, 2002 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
...too much of the lives of the stars of "The Fluffer" and not enough of the examination of the porn business.
Robin Clifford
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