Shadowboxer (2005)

[Batsy423 0]

Cuba Gooding Jr. and Helen Mirren are step-mom and -son and assassins AND lovers in this super duper bizarre story. The basic plot is this, Mirren is dying of cancer but she wants to do one last job. The job is to kill this pregnant lady. Instead of killing her, she helps her give birth. Cuba (who I imagined as Radio the whole movie) goes along with it for Mirren even tho he clearly thinks it's a bad idea.

 

A lot of unnecessary nudity and sex should make this an enjoyable watch for Jason. Plenty to discuss from beginning to very end (kind of feels like the whole movie was filler just to get to this ending). Possibly a painful watch for anyone a fan of Cuba Gooding Jr and/or Helen Mirren but definitely a movie needing dissection by the HDTGM team.

[SlidePocket 707]

Also known as the directorial debut of Lee Daniels from "Precious" and "The Butler" fame.

[valequest 0]

Please cover this movie!  So bad it's good

 

[RyanSz 3140]

Bumping this for how batshit insane this movie is and the number of notable people involved with this movie. You have Lee Daniels in his directorial debut, Helen Mirren before she won an Oscar, Cuba Gooding Jr. as her stepson/lover/partner in crime, Stephen Dorff who does a full frontal sex scene that ends with him basically losing his boner and killing a couple people, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a mob doctor and Mo'Nique as a his drug addicted nurse/girlfriend. The most notable scene outside of the Dorff one is easily the bit where a cancer riddled Mirren asks Cuba to mercy kill her so they have sex in the woods and Cuba shoots her in the head as she climaxes. This was released in theaters in six cities including LA and New York City, meaning they were trying to get this eligible for the various film award ceremonies.