“Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass,” the story of a naive young hairdresser who travels to Hollywood hoping to sleep with Jon Hamm, has been described as an absurdist, deeply meta, gloriously raunchy comedy since it debuted at Sundance. But the new film from “Wet Hot American Summer” director David Wain and his co-writer Ken Marino is also a riff on “The Wizard of Oz.”
“As we were constructing the story of this woman who has to figure out what to do in the event of her husband-to-be making his celebrity pass agreement a reality, it just started to organically make sense to us that there was like a ‘Wizard of Oz’ thread,” Wain says. “It seemed organically part of the DNA of what we were doing.”
So like Dorthy Gale, Gail is a naive young girl from Kansas. Only this time, instead of floating over the rainbow, she…
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