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No Skin Off My Ass

1991 · 73 min

A scrappy, provocative punk provocation that mixes explicit desire with deadpan absurdity, asking you to lean into its grimy, confrontational charm.

Directed by: Bruce LaBruce
Genres: Drama, Romance
Starring: Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Klaus von Buecker

Tagline: Being a fag is a definite plus
Overview: A lonely hairdresser watches the title sequence of "That Cold Day in the Park" then visits a local park to invite a down-and-out skinhead to his apartment. He draws the silent man a bath and talks to him as he soaks. He locks his guest in a bedroom. Next day, the skinhead leaves through the window and visits his sister, who's making a film called "Sisters of the SLA." He helps with a screen-test. The hairdresser has dreams and fantasies involving the skinhead, the skinhead returns to visit him, and then the filmmaker pays a call on the two men, exposing her brother as faking his silence and pretending a lack of sexual interest. Fantasies can come true.

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Directed by: Bruce LaBruce
Genres: Drama, Romance
Starring: Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Klaus von Buecker

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Tone: absurdstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
campystrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
identity
sexuality
isolation
art
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
unreliable narrator
Content intensity: Gore none
Language strong
Violence mild
Sex strong

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Humour	5
Realism	6
Romance	6
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama, romance
Directed by: Bruce LaBruce
Written by: Bruce LaBruce
Starring: Bruce LaBruce, G.B. Jones, Klaus von Buecker, Caroline Azar, Beverly Breckenridge, Laurel Pervis, Kate Ashley, Jena von Brücker
Runtime: 73 min
Country: Canada
Languages: English

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