I'm gonna copy and paste what I wrote on another forum
This might be a little long, but bear with me
So I was taking a trip down musical nostalgia lane recently and my golden age was the late 90's, the peak of boy bands (Don't judge...alright judge). So in listening to the music I got to thinking about Lou Pearlman and the creepy accusations about him and various members of his groups like Backstreet Boys and LFO, along with the Ponzi scheme that landed him in jail, where he served time until his death a couple of months ago. I kinda knew the gist of what happened but I wanted to get details. My curiosity led me to the Vanity Fair article "Mad about the Boys" which chronicles Pearlman's odyssey from a blimp enthusiast to music mogul to fugitive http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2007/11/pearlman200711
In the article there's a section about how Pearlman, encircled with lawsuits from the groups he helped and hurt and losing money fast, wanted to venture into Hollywood with the crime romantic-thriller/teen-comedy/??? Longshot
And this movie...oh, boy. I'll save the details but the story is insanely incomprehensible. Jack - a personal trainer/gigolo (uh-huh) gigolates with the wrong wife, and her husband gives him a mission to seduce a widow into giving insider information on her dead husband's business. So Jack has to do this or the guy will kill his little brother, whose useless storyline about being failed basketball player/aspiring spy is thrown in to coincide with his brother's but wraps the film up at the end.
The story is muddled - not knowing who to pander to, the editing atrocious, the acting stinks but what I can't get over is who all is in the film. Paul Sorvino,The Rock, and Gilbert Gottfried were all in it in addition to others but the biggest surprise of all were cameos from boy band members that had sued him (including one co-pilot who needed to get the airplane controls..."in sync"...).
Given how Lou Pearlman's schemes were, it's weird that he would write a film like this.
