Shadowboxer (2006) - LightShed 5

Good movie. 

In Shadowboxer, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Helen Mirren are a couple and contract killers, oh, and stepmother and stepson.  They are hired to kill a pregnant Vanessa Ferlito, who plays the wife of a nasty mob kingpin (Stephen Dorff).  As Helen is about to shoot Vanessa, she starts to have her baby and Helen decides to protect mother and baby.

The movie is somber but somehow not as gross as you'd think (considering the edgy stepmother/stepson sex scenes -- they almost make you not pay attention to all the screen time Cuba's butt gets, almost).

Helen and Cuba were dressed by Vivienne Westwood:

The Westwood wardrobe was not the only gay content in Shadowboxer.  We had a bit more for our gay movie review.  In the first scene with gay content, Macy Gray (who plays Vanessa's best friend) is in a bar, and we see a transvestite/tranny sitting there, just chilling.  Macy Gray buys her a drink.  Cute, right?

But then, later, one of Cuba's hits turns out to be a dad who likes to get it from behind from transvestites.  Cuba shows up in drag and as the dad bends over, Cuba shoots him but sees a card written by the guy's son.  That was a bit of negative light (I think it is fair to assume the guy was cheating on his wife, but that is not certain though).

There were quite a few homo-erotic moments.  In the first homo moment, in the beginning of the movie, before Stephen Dorff is about to kill a guy, he kind of caresses the guy's hair a few times.  Gently and sexually almost.  Later, in an after work-out scene, Cuba is in the locker room and a guy passes behind him, very close.  Cuba acknowledges that but is not bothered.

Everybody was hot in the movie.  Stephen Dorff and Cuba were hot beyond belief.  And Stephen goes full frontal.  You can really see the whole thing, right in the middle of a sex scene. 

Stephen is giving it to a lady, and there's quite a bit of agitation outside his room, so he gets out and you see all.  His sizable tool was protected only by a condom.  And it was soft, flaccid, not semi-erect.   

The movie was so sexual that I almost put it in the I Can't Believe It's Not Porn category, but the lack of a hard penis kept the movie out of that club.  An erect penis is where I draw the line.

So, we had two diverse, uncommon couples, Cuba and Helen, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Mo'nique.  I almost wanted a gay couple included, but was glad there was none. 

The couples, as nicely diverse as they were, turned out to be disturbingly dysfunctional.  Helen and Cuba were stepmother/stepson, and Joseph and Mo'nique were pretty screwed up, she a crack whore and Joseph a mob physician.  So, I was glad us gays were not equated.

Watch the trailer after the jump.

Comments

[Marcus]

Hey, this must be a good movie!
I liked the story!
Besides that, Stephen is very cute!
;-)