A Canadian radio company threatened to fire until people like Francis Ford Coppola, Gus Van Sant, Julianne Moore, Bart Freudelich, and Moby came on board and helped Lee.
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Even worse is that when Sook-Yin Lee, a well-known radio personality in Canada was found out to star in a film that would feature explicit sex. Three of the people later dropped out in early 2004 with funding all falling through. Before going into a workshop and a STD test, the actors and Mitchell collaborated on the characters while Mitchell worked on his screenplay. Mitchell invited the 400 people for a thing in New York City before choosing nine people that included Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Raphael Barker, PJ DeBoy, Peter Stickles, and Jay Brannan. He and Gertler received several thousand tapes before choosing around 400 that included a tape from Tarnation director Jonathan Caouette which was a clip from that eventual film. In response to the way European approached sex on film, Mitchell wanted to do something that was a more positive response. Starting in 2003 with producer Howard Gertler, Mitchell posted a website talking about an untitled sex project he wanted to do. Jay Brannan is wonderful as the young Ceth who is attracted to both James and Jamie while being unaware of James' depression. Peter Stickles is great as stalker Caleb who pines for the same affection that James and Jamie has while not wanting them to see the two breakup. Justin Bond is wonderful as the club's owner and leader who reveals to Sofia of what it takes to connect with others as his presence lights up the room. Adam Hardman is excellent as submissive Jesse who wants to be beaten and try to talk to the more aggressive Severin. Alan Mandell is great as an aging ex-mayor who expresses his regrets of not being more helping while giving advice to the young Ceth. Donut, Ray Rivas as the drag Shabbos Goy, and musician Scott Matthew as the club's bandleader. The film's huge ensemble cast includes some memorable small performances and cameos from Tarnation director Jonathan Caouette, Hedwig star Miriam Shor, a musician named Bitch (no really), Shanti Carson, Jan Hilmer, Paul Oakley Stovall as a club patron named Magnus, Bradford Scobie as a club patron named Dr.
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Mitchell's direction and his decision to use New York City as the center point is inspiring where he proves that even in the strangest of places, there is someone for everyone. Even the orgy sequences where people are having unsimulated sex might seem shocking but it serves to convey the sense of connection that the characters are trying to find. Some times it's playful, other times it's pretty deep. Mitchell approaches it with realism but also with great care where the sex is important to the film in relation to what the characters are feeling or how they are reacting to each other. Then there's the sex where it may be called explicit to some due to scenes of ejaculation, penetration, masturbation, oral sex, and all sorts of hijinks. Mitchell truly has matured as a director by engaging his camera into some heavy, deep moments where the characters are trying to understand something. Mitchell's direction is similar to not just the loose, improvisational style of Robert Altman as well as the character study of Gus Van Sant. Sofia continues to walk around in the club where she encounters an orgy where she sees a beautiful straight couple (Shanti Carson and Jan Hilmer) having the kind of sex that Sofia had been wanting. James and Jamie take in Ceth, who they find attractive in order to open their relationship more as James has been spooked by death lately after finding a dead man in a pool where he's a lifeguard.
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After a discussion with James and Jamie, they take her to a club called Shortbus where she meets Severin as well as group of eccentric people including transvestite Justin Bond (Justin Bond), a young man named Ceth (Jay Brannan), and former NYC mayor named Tobias (Alan Mandell). The Canadian-Chinese woman is having problems achieving an orgasm that has put a damper in her marriage to Rob (Raphael Barker). James and Jamie go to couple counseling sessions with a therapist named Sofia (Sook-Yin Lee). It's a typical day in New York City where a dominatrix named Severin (Lindsay Beamish) is punishing a client named Jesse (Adam Hardman) while a gay couple named James (Paul Dawson) and Jamie (PJ DeBoy) are having problems.