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Once upon a time, Tracy (Sean Weathers) was the life of the party, with
(in no particular order), sex, drugs and alcohol topping his list of
priorities. But he has mended his ways since, has found back to the church
and God, and now Jesus is his single priority in life - oh, Jesus and a
girl named Felicia, who's about as devout a Christian as him, and who
seems to like him more than a little - and yet, when he asks her out, she
turns him down quite brutally, he is so devastated that it totally throws
him off the rails, and when Monet (Crystal Bates), an old flame, invites
him to her apartment, he willingly accepts, gets drunk and has sex with
her ... when he learns that she has a boyfriend though this throws him
into a pit of guilt and self-pity. A few days later though, Felicia enters
his life again to tell him she has made a mistake and that she's ready to
commit to him now. They decide to not rush things though and postpone
their first sexual encounter for the time being - enough time for Tracy's
guilt to grow to unbearable heights, and to confess the affair with Monet
to her when he finally has Felicia in her underwear ... needless to say,
she throws him out and never wants to see him again. In his desparation,
Tracy visits a prostitute upon being dumped by Felicia, then desperately
tries to get back together with Monet, in increasingly psychotic phone
messages, until her boyfriend tells him off in an almost violent manner. Felicia
calls Tracy to give him another chance, and this time, despite the guilt
weighing in on him, he refrains from telling her about his sexual
shenanigans. He proposes to her, and she accepts - in a word, Tracy is that
close to paradise ... but there's still the bachelor party to live through
- has anybody ordered hookers? Waliek Crandall plays Tracy's best friend
and voice of reason - even if his advice is not always the best ... Despite
being called Mandingo Sex Addict, this movie is a lot less of a sex
fest than the title suggests - though make no mistake here, there are
plenty of sex scenes of the hard softcore variety, with some very hot
women, too. Anyways, the film as such is more of a character piece with
its dramatic and comedic spots in all the right places, that basically
asks the question "What are moral standards good for if you make no
efforts to live up to them?" - though it lets the audience find its
own answer and sympathizes with its very fallible lead character instead
of condemning him for his (obvious) flaws. Stylistically, the film is
quite obviously a low budget indie effort - which by no means means it
looks sloppy, but it has that sometimes adventurous indie feel to it that
might at times result in certain technical inadequacies, on the other in a
fresh and no-holds-barred approach to its narrative, and this film takes
chances that a studio movie just won't ... Very interesting and very
entertaining!
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