Spread
Spread
R | 17 January 2009 (USA)
Spread Trailers

A gigolo must contend with the prospect that he has found true love.

Reviews
Mjeteconer

Just perfect...

... View More
Pluskylang

Great Film overall

... View More
Console

best movie i've ever seen.

... View More
Aneesa Wardle

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

... View More
Ben Jamieson

when i first read the plot summary, i was expecting a fairly bland, generic movie. this is not what i saw. I enjoyed this movie and it was not something you'd expect from Ashton Kutcher. the original story plot and strong characters made this movie far better than a low budget, 1 star movie ever should be. the versatility of Kutcher is shown as he plays a character that isn't anything like is normal. i thought the movie was entertaining due to the new, fresh plot line. Despite the fact there was a fair amount of 'adult' content within, it managed to keep your mind of of this and use it in an almost tasteful way, and use it to build the root of the characters even stronger. this is definitely a film i recommend, the only reason i give it a 7 is because of the fact this could have been made far better with a higher budget. going on plot alone, this is a solid 9. if you have 1hr and a half, watch it.

... View More
Roth van Turnhout

This movie as labeled as a sex-Comedy. But is not really a comedy, nor a porn movie. It's more like a drama. There's plenty of gratuitous nudity and sex to go around until the second half of the film which switched gears and the movie turned into a sappy romantic Drama. The movie is original, but has a lightweight story with little on the side of character development , amidst some hot sex scenes.With the exception of Anne Heche's performance, the acting was completely stiff and devoid of any emotion and expresions. The only real acting came from Heche. Unfortunately, this movie is all about Ashton Kutcher. Kutcher drags down the entire proceedings. He did his best as the lead role of Nikki, but this movie shows, that Ashton Kutcher is just not a very good actor.The acting gets worse in the second half when Heche disappears for Margarita Levieva, who take over the female lead with even worse acting than Kutcher.Anne Heche great performance is the only reason to go and watch this movie.

... View More
MBunge

Spread isn't funny and generates very little drama because it's all about a main character you have no reason to give a damn about, but for the first 70 minutes or so it seems like it has a point to make and that's enough to hold your interest. It also helps that there's a smokin' hot and very naked Anne Heche on screen for some of that time. Then it flounders into a final 20 minutes that abandons every interesting possibility suggested in the story and replaces it with the worst kind of hackneyed clichés all built around a truly absurd supporting character. This was never going to be a great film, but it nosedives into laughably bad by the end.Nikki (Ashton Kutcher) is a man-whore cruising through the Los Angeles party scene. Once, he was one of the thousands of young people who flock to LA every year seeking fame and fortune. Now still very handsome but not all that young, all Nikki seeks is a constant supply of young chicks to bang and a series of sugar mommies to support him. With no home and no car, Nikki seduces older, well off women and insinuates himself into their lives until he gets bored and moves on to another conquest. His latest meal ticket is Sam (Anne Heche), who he throws himself at and relentlessly screws until she trusts him enough to leave him in her Hollywood hills home when she goes to New York. At that point, Nikki throws a big party in Sam's home and starts boinking young women on the side, until Sam catches him in that act. But after a flash of anger, Sam decides to keep Nikki around as her live-in boy toy.Now so far in this movie, Heche has been impressively nude just enough to hold your attention and while Spread hasn't been all that entertaining, it appears at this point it might have something to say about Nikki, Sam and their relationship. That turned out to be a bad assumption on my part. Instead of plunging into Sam and Nikki and exploring them as real people living real lives, Nikki just arbitrarily falls in love with a waitress named Heather (Margarita Levieva), almost entirely because she's the only woman in the story who resists his charms. Sam then catches Nikki cheating on her far less flagrantly than before, but this time she kicks him out. Then Nikki's life arbitrarily (there's that word again) falls apart and he winds up almost homeless and hustling middle-aged ladies at hotel pools for sandwiches.Heather then arbitrarily (getting the hint?) decides to take Nikki and let him live with her. They start acting like boyfriend and girlfriend until Nikki finds out that Heather has a rich fiancée in New York City. They sort of but not quite have a fight, Heather runs away to the Big Apple and then this thing turns into a lame romantic-comedy where Nikki flies to New York to win her back. He doesn't get her back, and the film ends with Nikki in some nebulous state of existence in LA.Spread is yet another motion picture that is reasonably well executed but horribly ill conceived. The entire thing is centered on Nikki. No other character exists except in connection to him. However, there's almost nothing interesting about him. He's an amoral and purposeless drifter who gets by in life entirely on his good looks and lack of a conscious. It's only when Sam catches him getting a blow job in her home but still keeps him around that there's even a hint of anything intriguing about this story. Sam takes control of the relationship and her own life at that moment and there's every indication that it's going to lead to a deeper look into why these two people are they way they are and the nature of their free floating sexual and personal connection.Nothing like that happens. Sam is just arbitrarily (that word keeps coming up, doesn't it?) ejected from the story and Nikki is thrown together with Heather, with the painfully obvious idea that Heather winds up treating Nikki the way he used to treat women and boy, isn't that all ironic and stuff? But Heather doesn't really treat Nikki the way he used to treat women, so there goes all that, and she turns out to be a completely unbelievable character. She begins in the story as a waitress in LA, dating older guys for their money and eventually hooking up with Nikki. Then we find out she's got a rich New York fiancée, but if that's true…what the hell is she doing working as a waitress in LA, dating older guys and hooking up with a man-whore like Nikki? This film never makes even the vaguest attempt to explain or justify any of that.Spread isn't aggressively horrible. Heche gives a nice performance and looks even nicer without any clothes on. Ultimately, though, it's not funny or clever and you never think or feel anything about what happens in this movie. Skip it.

... View More
MovieBuff26

"Spread" is about this guy named Nikki. He is a homeless man but has sex with girls and tries to start relationships with them and which he has no intention on keeping. He uses the women for a place to stay. He finds this girl named Samantha at a club in the beginning of the movie. After a night of sex with each other Samantha starts to like him and Nikki moves in with her.While Sam is out of town Nikki meets this waitress that he actually likes.She plays hard to get at first but Nikki always gets the girl with his charm. They go out to dinner but she leaves early because she has to go and does not state why.He then finds her swimming in his pool. They have sex and he finds out the next morning that she has a boyfriend. During the time Sam is away in New York for business Nikki cheats on her with three different girls.Sam comes home early and catches Nikki in the act. She does not throw him out but soon arrange something out.Nikki later on in the movie meets up with Heather at a pool somewhere in LA. He then finds out that Heather does the same thing to people as he does. The movie continues on.....I found this movie to be interesting. It didn't keep me on the edge of my seat, wondering what would happen next. But, it did keep me interested.The ending could have definitely been predicted. Besides the fact. I liked that he would just have sex with so many girls and not feel anything for them after wards.It has a different storyline to it than most movies in my opinion. The Actresses were very attractive, so the casting crew did a good job on their part. Those were my likes about the film.My dislikes are that it could have had more comedy in it. Just some more jokes. I do not know what the Wardrobe was thinking for Nikki's clothing during the movie. A gigolo would not be dressing in suspenders with a scarf tied to his neck. I really don't think that would give a good impression on a girl.Over all pretty decent film. Not the best I have ever seen but it has potential. I would recommend seeing this film if you like to see naked hot women and and interesting plot.

... View More