{"id":2502818,"date":"2026-07-15T10:07:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2502818"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:07:15","slug":"movie-review-originality-cant-save-gail-daughtry-and-the-celebrity-sex-pass-the-news-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/movie-review-originality-cant-save-gail-daughtry-and-the-celebrity-sex-pass-the-news-herald\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie review: Originality can\u2019t save \u2018Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass\u2019 \u2013 The News Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Is there really such a thing as a celebrity sex pass?\u00a0 It\u2019s an apparent agreement between two lovers that each may pick one celebrity for sex (if given the chance) without violating the relationship. Don\u2019t ask me if it\u2019s a real-life practice. My only knowledge of it is found in the current movie \u201cGail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass\u201d starring Zoe Deutch in the title role.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Low and behold, Tom manages a sexual encounter with Ms. Aniston at the location of the book signing. Gail discovers them and it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s agency where they meet aspiring agent Caleb (played by Ben Wang). Though Caleb isn\u2019t 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\u2019s last known address from an agency file and the trio follows the lead.<\/p>\n<p>As it happens, Hamm had moved to another location a year earlier. The home is now occupied by \u201cWeird Al\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s 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\u2019s residence. Hamm\u2019s assistant offers them access to the actor on the condition that they provide Hamm with a solid idea for a movie.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the briefcase switch. The group looks into the briefcase in the car and discovers it\u2019s not Gail\u2019s. More important is that they\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n<p>The group overcomes Ludovica\u2019s gang and makes its way back to Hamm\u2019s residence. Though Hamm isn\u2019t interested in the movie idea, he extends favors to the group, including willingness to be Gail\u2019s celebrity sex pass. If all of this is too much for you, don\u2019t feel bad. It\u2019s too much for me too. \u201cGail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass\u201d is a celebration of degenerate behavior (not unlike that displayed when Ms. Aniston starred on Friends).<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this is not a family movie. But it\u2019s also a sorry state of affairs if \u201cGail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass\u201d connects with adults (whose standards are emulated by their sons and daughters).<\/p>\n<p><em>John O\u2019Neill of Allen Park writes a weekly review.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1423540\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone size-article_inline\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John O&#8217;Neill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thenewsherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there really such a thing as a celebrity sex pass?\u00a0 It\u2019s an apparent agreement between two lovers that each may pick one celebrity for sex (if given the chance) without violating the relationship. Don\u2019t ask me if it\u2019s a real-life practice. 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