- Zerophilia
Infobox Film
name = Zerophilia
caption = Promotional poster
director = Martin Curland
producer = Gregory Lanese
Matt Radecki
Martin Curland
Alan Grossbard
Jay Whitney Brown
writer = Martin Curland
starring =Taylor Handley Gina Bellman Kyle Schmid Kelly LeBrock
music = Kevin McDaniels
Edie Pijpers
cinematography = Graham Futerfas
distributor =TLA Releasing Allumination Filmworks
Microangelo Entertainment
released =October 13 , 2006
runtime = 90 min.
country = USA
language = English
budget = $325,000
website = http://www.ZerophiliaMovie.com
imdb_id = 0421090"Zerophilia" is a
romantic comedy film with speculative-fiction elements directed by Motion Pictures' Student Academy Award winning director Martin Curland and produced by Microangelo Entertainment. It is about a young man who discovers that he has a genetic condition which causes him to change gender when he's aroused.Plot
"Zerophilia" is a condition that the movie as well as the International Organization of Zerophiliacs claims affects approximately 1,000 or more people in the world, who have an extra "Z" chromosome. Following their first experience of sexual intercourse, Zerophiliacs begin to change gender whenever they are sexually aroused. Luke (
Taylor Handley ), a young man who is somewhat insecure about his masculinity, begins to exhibit Zerophilia following a sexual encounter with a woman (Kelly LeBrock ). He meets Michelle (Rebecca Mozo) and experiences partial transformations when they go out together.He confides about his partial transformations to his best friend Keenan (Dustin Seavey), who contacts Dr. Sydney Catchadourian (
Gina Bellman ). Dr. Catchadourian persuades Luke to go through a full transformation. Luke accomplishes this through masturbation and becomes "Luca." Luca has difficulty achieving an orgasm to change back, even with coaching from Keenan's girlfriend Janine (Alison Folland ). However, a visit by Michelle's attractive brother, Max (Kyle Schmid ), who flirts with "Luke's cousin", enables her to get sufficiently aroused to complete the transformation back into Luke.Luke is threatened by his gender transformation and the questions of sexuality it raises; he seeks help from Sydney. She tells him that a Zerophiliac can become "a-morphic" and stop changing gender only by having sex with another Zerophiliac... such as herself. He relents, but discovers afterward that she wasn't telling him the full truth: an a-morphic Zerophiliac can still change by having sex with another Zerophiliac; Dr. Catchadourian was only using him to change herself into a man, leaving Luke as a woman, Luca.
Comic tensions arise from Luke's efforts to keep Michelle at a distance, Max's defensiveness about his sister, Luca's half-hearted resistance to Max's affections and Luke's confused aggression toward Max. When Michelle discovers that Luke had sex with Dr. Catchadourian, she feels betrayed. Hoping to find Michelle, Luca seeks out Max and reveals the depth of her/(his) affection for Michelle and how sorry he is to have betrayed her. Max is touched by her apology, and reveals that he is actually Michelle. They make love...repeatedly, both changing gender, destined to live happily ever-after alternately as Luca and Max and Luke and Michelle.
Cast
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Taylor Handley as Luke
*Kyle Schmid as Max
*Alison Folland as Janine
*Gina Bellman as Sydney (female)
*Marieh Delfino as Luca
*Dustin Seavey as Keenan
*Rebecca Mozo as Michelle
*Kelly LeBrock (cameo) as the mysterious woman who deflowers LukeRelease
The film was released on
October 13 ,2006 in theaters in North America. It was released internationally on DVD in February 2007.The screenplay can be found on The International Movie Screenplay Database, http://www.imsdb.com
External links
* [http://www.ZerophiliaMovie.com Official site]
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* [http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/movies/13zero.html REVIEW - New York Times] (October 13 ,2006 , "New York Times ")
* [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117932053.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 REVIEW - Variety] (November 6 ,2006 , "Variety")
* [http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=2518 REVIEW - Slant Magazine] (2006 , Slant Magazine)
* [http://www.insightnews.com/aesthetics.asp?mode=display&articleID=2677 REVIEW - Insight News] (February 19 ,2007 , Insight News)
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