An all-time sex comedy classic, some recent infamous flicks, and a movie you've probably never heard of before now await you on August 5 in Movie Nudity History!
2011: The Change-Up
There was quite a bit of hemming and hawing in the community when this comedy got released on this day nine years ago. None of it was necessarily connected to the film itself, which was a perfectly fine body swap comedy with two marginally similar actors—Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds—swapping bodies after drunkenly pissing in a magical fountain one night. The controversy stemmed from the fact that cgi was used to create the illusion of nudity from the film's two lead actresses, Leslie Mann and Olivia Wilde.
This sort of cgi trickery had been done before on films like Machete, but this was full-on nudity that was messed with to trick guys into thinking that Leslie Mann had a substantially bigger rack than she really does...
For her part, Mann would actually go nude for the very first time a year later in This is 40, but for a minute there, it seemed like this could be the future. Instead, we got fooled into thinking that Mann had abnormally smooth breasts. Olivia Wilde got off a little easier as we only get the briefest of out-of-focus peeks at her right breast, created entirely in a computer...
WhileGame of Thrones and various other films and television programs have used cgi to augment nudity since this film, none have done it to this extent, because they know that audiences are smart enough to know when they've been hoodwinked. That or they're just waiting until the technology gets slightly better.
2011: Bellflower
Made for under $20,000, this post-apocalyptic thriller also debuted on this day nine years ago, telling the tale of a pair of seemingly inseparable friends holed up together in an abandoned motel. They spend their days crafting weapons and basically talking about how their friendship is so perfect that nothing could possibly tear it apart. Enter Millie (Jessie Wiseman), who beats one of the boys at a cricket eating competition, causing him to fall for her, naturally! Millie's friend Courtney (Rebekah Brandes) attempts to be the stabilizing fourth wheel to bring the team into alignment, but alas it's not meant to be after a rather disastrous one night stand...
It isn't long before Millie is sleeping with both guys, causing even more jealousy between them and turning their once prosperous friendship into a rivalry. One look at Jessie Wiseman in the buff and it's easy to see why she drove both of these dudes nuts...
2005: Broken Flowers
Seeking tocontinue working almost exclusively withquirky indie filmmakers, Bill Murray began a long working relationship with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch in 2003, appearing as himself in Coffee Cigarettes,before graduating tothe lead role of his next film.As an aging lothario informed that he may have fathered a child with an ex-loversome yearsago, Murray playsyour classic man on a voyage of self-discovery in this flick celebrating its fifteenth anniversary today.
His first stop on his journey to find the son he may have fathered takes him to the home of former lover Sharon Stone. She isn't home, but her teenage daughter Lolita, played by the unforgettable Alexis Dziena, is all too happy to tease him while he waits for her mother to get home...
1983: Risky Business
Mere weeks after April's release of Losin' It, Tom Cruise continued his dominant year of 1983 with this stone cold teen sex comedy classic! The film wastes no time getting to the good stuff, with Francine Locke going nude in the shower in a dream sequence just three minutes in...
Cruise's horny teen thinks he's hit the jackpot when high priced call girl Rebecca De Mornay shows up to sleep with him 28 minutes in, but it's just the beginning of a series of events that's going to plunge him into a world that's crazier than anything he's seen in his sheltered suburban life...
The film's final box office haul of $63 million, when adjusted for inflation, ranks right next to 1999's American Pie, meaning the two films sold roughly the same amount of tickets 16 years apart.
1983: Get Crazy
Perhaps best remembered now as a tax shelter film destined for failure—àla The Producers' "Springtime for Hitler"—this music industry satire starring Malcolm McDowell isn't quite a cult classic worth revisiting, but it's not as bad as its reputation would suggest. That's thanks at least in part to the topless antics of Linnea Quigley, Charity James, and a host of other bare beauties...
