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Шаблон:Infobox film Flypaper is a 1998 American independent comedy film written and directed by Klaus Hoch and starring Craig Sheffer, Robert Loggia, Sadie Frost, John C. McGinley, Illeana Douglas, Talisa Soto, and Lucy Liu. It tells three intertwining tales of violence, sex, and betrayal in Southern California. The film premiered at the American Film Market in 1998 before being released direct-to-video in 2000. It has been deemed strongly reminiscent of Pulp Fiction but lacks Tarantino's flair.

Plot

In Southern California, a woman named Laura watches a tape showing her fiancé Joe flirting with someone whom he bumps into during his morning jog. That someone is Amanda, who has been hired by Laura as her "love decoy" to test whether Joe was being faithful. Upset with this discovery, Laura rejects Amanda's colleague's suggestion that she move on in favor of punishing Joe. Later, Amanda accepts Joe's invitation to his hotel room under the pretense of a date and feign interest in BDSM: she coaxes him into foreplay clad in a dominatrix outfit, taking all but his underwear and socks off and cuffing his wrists and ankles to a bedframe, only to dress up and abandon him afterward. A morose Laura then appears, prepared to cut off his genitals as revenge, but stops the moment he gives an empty apology for cheating on her (after having just denied doing so); instead, she shuns him as immoral and leaves.

Meanwhile, crooks Bobby Ray and Leon bust up a meth lab in the woods and steal the equipment and drug precursors inside before kidnapping drug chemist Dot. Elsewhere, home builder Marvin and his henchman Jack pick up Natalie, a groggy junky whom Marvin has been trying to keep sober, from the dirt and drive her to a hotel to let her catch some sleep. Their car crosses paths with that of Bobby Ray, en route to Natalie's home, where he intends to build another meth lab in her garage to keep Natalie, his sometime-lover, addicted. Unable to find Natalie, Bobby Ray proceeds to chain Dot's ankle to a post, to coerce her into "cooking" for him. Once the men have left, she escapes by tearing the heel of her ankle with the bladed edge of a beer can that she crumpled. She is found limping by Jerry, a snake enthusiast who treats her injury. The two fall for one another, they wed on the spot and consummate the marriage with a kink involving sex in a water-free swimming pool filled with some of Jerry's rattlesnakes, with each consuming a dose of antivenom beforehand.

As Jack looks after Natalie, Marvin returns to his apartment, which Bobby Ray and Leon have burglarized in search of her. Upon awakening, Natalie takes a hit of meth and talks to Jack. This chat transpires into rough casual sex. They are interrupted by Joe, screaming for help from the other side of the room. Jack heeds his pleas, and Joe is freed. Meanwhile, Bobby Ray and Leon beat up Marvin to get him to disclose Natalie's location, but stop after accepting his offer to pay $200,000 to leave her alone for good. However, the pair discover Natalie's hotel room and force their way in. Protecting Natalie, Jack hits Bobby Ray with a golf club and they exchange gunfire. Afraid they might shoot innocent occupants, Bobby Ray and Leon fall back. At the parking lot, the pair's car breaks down and Amanda offers to jump start it with hers. When she discovers Marvin in the trunk of his car as he gets the jumper cables, Bobby Ray fools her into believing that Marvin has agoraphobia when he has actually been kidnapped. While Bobby Ray diverts her attention, Leon agrees to let Marvin in the backseat, on the condition that he helps with his dream business. Bobby Ray, overjoyed he has gotten Amanda's number, drives away unbothered by Marvin being let out.

While driving around the complex, Bobby Ray catches Jack and Natalie leaving together and shoots at them, but ends up hitting Joe, who also happens to be at the scene; Jack and Natalie hide in the men's restroom. Before Bobby Ray can return to the car, Marvin accepts Leon's plan to double cross him once they get the money from the bank. Unable to contact Marvin, Jack and Natalie look for him in his apartment, where they end up discussing the odds that he is her father: Natalie wonders why Marvin would financially support her growing up without a mother (who left her when she was six), and Jack surmises that he must have been in love with her mother, whom he often speaks highly of. Joe awakens in an ambulance van with a flesh wound in his leg. Convinced Laura is trying to kill him, he jumps out of the moving vehicle and goes after her. He happens upon Laura during her jog and chases her to a stranger's home, where they argue. Laura ends up regretting setting him up with Amanda just to prove her point and apologizes, explaining she is the jealous type and has difficulty trusting other people. Joe admits he is still in love with her in spite of everything, and they reconcile.

At the bank's parking lot, Leon shoots Bobby Ray in the head point blank and leaves him for dead. Asked by Marvin how he intends to spend the money, Leon says he will use it to open up a strip club. Marvin drops Leon off at his trailer by the Mexican border and accepts Leon's offer to come by the club someday before leaving. Having survived the gunshot, Bobby Ray goes to the supermarket and buys gauze pads and a super glue, and steals a car where he seals off his gaping wound. Thinking Leon's betrayal was planned by Natalie, Bobby Ray runs his car into her garage, in time to find her and Jack there. Missing Bobby Ray's gunshots, Natalie runs and Jack sneaks up on him and stabs him with a knife before he could fatally shoot her. Bobby Ray, still alive with the knife planted in his head, hitches a ride belonging to a middle-aged couple who agree to take him to fast food before dropping him off at a hospital.

Marvin, Jack, and Natalie later have breakfast together, during which she implores Marvin to tell the truth about whether he is her father, intent on resolving the trauma she has developed over being abandoned. While Marvin says he is unsure that this is the case, he consoles Natalie with a postcard sent by her mother from Ecuador about four years before: in it she asks him to take care of Natalie, and to never tell her daughter about her, explaining "It's too late and much too complicated." However, he encourages Natalie to go to Ecuador, explaining they both deserve closure. Marvin then turns to Jack and says he is retiring from building houses, now ready to invest in Jack's "wacky scheme" which cannot be any worse than Leon's.

Production

Flypaper was shot in 1997, in the period from June 9 to July 16. John C. McGinley did not join the cast until a week into filming. Shane Brolly revealed in 2019 that director Klaus Hoch had granted Sadie Frost's request for a bottle of champagne to drink before filming her sex scene with Brolly. The actor claimed that this was "to calm her nerves".

Release and reception

Flypaper premiered at the American Film Market (AFM), from February 26 to March 6, 1998; it was released direct-to-video on June 27, 2000.

TV Guide called the film among the "second-rate rip-offs" of Pulp Fiction, criticizing it as merely a series of bizarre interwoven storylines devoid of credibility, cohesion, and the "highly idiosyncratic worldview that makes Quentin Tarantino's films so singular". In 2011, Total Film ranked Lucy Liu and James Wilder's sex scene in a water-free pool filled with rattlesnakes as one of the "50 Worst Movie Sex Scenes", advising audiences to look away when "The pair copulate as narked snakes bite their naked bods".

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