Is there really such a thing as a celebrity sex pass? It’s an apparent agreement between two lovers that each may pick one celebrity for sex (if given the chance) without violating the relationship. Don’t ask me if it’s a real-life practice. My only knowledge of it is found in the current movie “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” starring Zoe Deutch in the title role.
Gail is a rural Kansas hairdresser who is engaged to her boyfriend, Tom (played by Michael Cassidy), and they are two weeks away from their wedding. Tom explains to Gail the arrangement of a celebrity sex pass and chooses British actress Tilda Swinton. For her part, Gail chooses Jon Hamm of Madmen fame (who plays himself). But when the couple goes to a book signing featuring Jennifer Aniston (who plays herself), Tom decides to choose Ms. Aniston as his celebrity sex pass instead of Ms. Swinton.
Low and behold, Tom manages a sexual encounter with Ms. Aniston at the location of the book signing. Gail discovers them and it’s an embarrassing scene. Or is it? Are our standards of behavior now so low that sex is so casual? Written and directed by David Wain, the movie is a celebration of hedonism.
Angry at her fiance, Gail decides to take a trip to a hair stylist convention in Los Angeles with Otto, her best friend and co-worker at the salon. When they arrive at the airport in Los Angeles, Gail’s briefcase is taken by mistake by two villains while she takes possession of their briefcase (which contains government documents and plans to induce worldwide market crashes). This morphs into the subplot to the sex pass.
On the advice of psychic Charlotte (played by Kerri Kenney-Silver), Gail decides to even the score with Tom and seek her sex pass with Jon Hamm. Gail and Otto go to Hamm’s agency where they meet aspiring agent Caleb (played by Ben Wang). Though Caleb isn’t able to produce Jon Hamm, he agrees to help the pair (only to get himself fired from the talent agency). But Caleb also manages to swipe Hamm’s last known address from an agency file and the trio follows the lead.
As it happens, Hamm had moved to another location a year earlier. The home is now occupied by “Weird Al” Yankovic (who plays himself). This leads them to photographer Vincent (Ken Marino) whose long standing ambition happens to be getting a picture of Jon Hamm (which he failed to do a decade earlier which prompted him to be fired from People Magazine). Vincent joins the trio and they follow a lead which winds up in a dead-end neighborhood.
But it’s not a total loss. Living in this neighborhood is John Slattery (who starred with Hamm on Madmen and who also plays himself). Slattery leads them to Hamm’s residence. Hamm’s assistant offers them access to the actor on the condition that they provide Hamm with a solid idea for a movie.
Remember the briefcase switch. The group looks into the briefcase in the car and discovers it’s not Gail’s. More important is that they’ve discovered the documents belonging to the sinister Ludovica (played by Sabrina Imacciatore). The group uncovers this conspiracy and comes up with the idea that it would make a great movie script. In the meantime, Ludovica and her thugs are pursuing Gail.
The group overcomes Ludovica’s gang and makes its way back to Hamm’s residence. Though Hamm isn’t interested in the movie idea, he extends favors to the group, including willingness to be Gail’s celebrity sex pass. If all of this is too much for you, don’t feel bad. It’s too much for me too. “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” is a celebration of degenerate behavior (not unlike that displayed when Ms. Aniston starred on Friends).
Needless to say, this is not a family movie. But it’s also a sorry state of affairs if “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass” connects with adults (whose standards are emulated by their sons and daughters).
John O’Neill of Allen Park writes a weekly review.
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