I Am a Sex Addict

Name: I Am a Sex Addict
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Released: April 5, 2006
Duration: 98 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Caveh Zahedi

2006

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IFC Films | Release Date: April 5, 2006 | Not Rated

Starring: Caveh Zahedi

Summary: Autobiographical filmmaker Caveh Zahedi has made a cult career of his unabashed willingness to be vulnerable on camera. I Am a Sex Addict, a comic reconstruction of his ten-year struggle with sex addiction, is one of his most ambitious, hilarious confessions yet. (IFC Films)

Director: Caveh Zahedi

Genre(s): Biography, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 98 min

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Mick LaSalle

There's no other film like it. It's embarrassingly frank and self-revealing, sometimes funny, sometimes creepy, sometimes both. Read full review

Jim Ridley

Caveh Zahedi's one-of-a-kind movie--a funny, inventive, ground-shifting hybrid of essay film, mea culpa, and pathological real-life romantic farce--aims for truth by wrecking its own verisimilitude. Read full review

Steven Rea

Although there's nothing funny about addiction, Zahedi - a thin, bug-eyed fellow with the air of an R. Crumb sad sack - brings wit and self-deprecation to his tale of obsession and woe. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

A confessional film that's almost too confessional--is like getting buttonholed by a casual acquaintance at a party and then subjected to a flood of highly intimate revelations that just don't stop. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh

Zahedi has been compared to Woody Allen, and he shares Allen's neurotic sense of entitlement and navel-gazing fascination with his own sexual peccadilloes. Whether you find either man funny or infuriating depends in large part on whether you identify more with their narcissistic quests for self-knowledge or the collateral damage left in their wakes. Read full review

Andrew O'Hehir

This film is an inevitable product of our age, and enjoyable, right up to whatever your ickiness threshold is. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Now that even Woody Allen has stopped making "Woody Allen movies," you would think that wannabes would move on, too. Read full review

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TracyR.

Apr 15, 2006

A minor masterpiece of tone.

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