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Ostensibly a pilot for a reality TV show, this weird documentary pushes the genre to the extreme. "Casting three leading men and three leading women (one of whom will earn $10,000 in 72 hours). 21-30, non-union, in shape, attractive, uninhibited," reads the classified ad. After weeding out scores of freakish non-starters (a game septuagenarian; an ingénue sporting a red clown nose), director James Ronald Whitney narrows the hopefuls to a few dozen nubile exhibitionists who gladly partake in the full-frontal playacting. Then, reminded that "uninhibited" means more than baring skin, they bare their souls. Tears flow as each in turn comes clean about bulimia, rape, and attempted suicide, disclosures voiced over footage of them pimping and primping earlier in the audition, to jarring effect. The final six must perform tasks offering comic relief, such as procuring urine samples from strangers on the street or enlisting strangers to come to a hotel room for a "naked trio." Between the laughs come more stark confessionals: Tourette’s syndrome; male prostitution; murdered parents. More shocking than these realities, though, is the director’s bald-faced cynicism. (97 minutes)
BY MIKE MILIARD
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