My Awkward Sexual Adventure (Sean Garrity, 2012): Canada

Reviewed by: Alexander Berg Viewed at: Metro 4, Santa Barbara

This is a hilarious sex-comedy that manages to stand apart from the commercial sex comedies you see a lot of today. And if you can manage the embarrassment of asking people where “My Awkward Sexual Adventure” is playing I deeply recommend seeing it in the theater.

This film is about Jordan (Jonas Chernick), a seemingly boring accountant who as he is about to ask his girlfriend Rachel (Sarah Manninen) for her hand in marriage gets dumped because she doesn’t get satisfied enough by him in bed. Jordan thereafter travels to Toronto to spend a week with his friend Dandak (Vik Sahay), a big womanizer who promises to help him with his issue. Unfortunately Dandak meets the love of his life right in the beginning of our story which prevents him from helping Jordan as he doesn’t want to come off as a bad person to his new found love, Jordan is on his own. He soon meets a stripper in dire need of accounting help who agrees to help him get better in bed in exchange for his accounting services. The story takes off and he is faced with strip clubs, cross dressing and much more.

This movie is in some ways one of those sex comedies that you see on TV from time to time but at the same time original. It is not about your typical college kid and his problems to get the girl but instead it is about similar problems after that chapter in his life. The backstory of the movie really shows as you get the feeling that a lot of things have happened around this story that sometimes can be traced back to that college kid. This film is though through and has many hilarious and unexpected moments.

This film discusses the subject of sex a great deal and I think explores the importance of it in a relationship. It also has the standard Romantic comedy concepts of trusting one another, believing in yourself and helping others. Although this does not take up a big part of the film and isn’t preachy at all, here comedy is in the center of the film. The same thing goes for the cinematography and editing that is simple just like it should be in a comedy but I think that they pulled it off really well as it looks like a well produced comedy.

I also had the privilege to see Director Sean Garrity, Actor/Writer Jonas Chernick, Actor Vik Sahay and Producer Juliette Hagopian as they had a Q & A after the screening. This was for me very interesting as it was the first Q & A I have ever been on with the top people of a feature film. They talked a lot about how much went into making this film and how it had been under development for about ten years. They were very inspirational to me as a filmmaker.

I personally loved this film and will most definitely see it when it makes it to the DVD-shelves in the stores, I suggest you do the same.