Advantages: Great script, good acting, interesting direction, nothing like American Pie Disadvantages: The title lets it down, do men like this exist?
...read the TV-guide synopsis for Roger Dodger, I thought it would be along the lines of a fluffy, teenage sex comedy a la 'American Pie' and I could hardly be forgiven for that assumption - 'When 16-year old Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) visits his uncle Roger (Campbell Scott) in the big city determined to lose his virginity, he is given lessons in life and love.' What the TV-guide didn't mention was, kindly old Uncle Roger turns out to be a smarmy, slimy ... ...failed relationships and cynical outlook, Roger proceeds to give lessons to nephew Nick on how to 'pull' and sleep with women.
With a polished appearance, smart one-liners and an unerring ability to make conversation with whomever he meets, Roger is the antipathy of Nick whose teenage hormones, worldly inexperience and moms basin-cut hair-do are likely to place him at the bottom of any single woman's wish-list of romantic suitors. Set mainly over ...
4ku-Papa 04.03.2008
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Campbell Scott stars in this sophisticated comedy as modern anti-hero Roger Swanson, a ... more
cynical advertising copywriter waging a one-man war in the trenches of Manhattan's single scene. A modern day Casanova (or so he thinks) Roger won't let the small ma...
Roger (Scott) is a sharp-witted advertising copywriter who can talk his way into any ... more
skirt. Which is exactly why his nephew Nick (Eisenberg) pays him a visit. With Nick's virginity at stake Roger takes him out for a one-night crash course in seductio...
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