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  • 2014
  • NC-17
  • Cavu Pictures
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2014
  • NC-17
  • Cavu Pictures
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Lucky Bastard is the found-footage story of a pornographic website that sponsors a contest for its subscribers—a contest in which the prize is having sex with a porn star. The entire film is shot from the point of view of the website’s cameras recording the on-screen and behind-the-scenes action.

Directed By: Robert Nathan

Written By: Lukas Kendall, Robert Nathan

  • 2014
  • NC-17
  • Cavu Pictures
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2014
  • NC-17
  • Cavu Pictures
  • 1 h 34 m

Lucky Bastard

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Lucky Bastard is the found-footage story of a pornographic website that sponsors a contest for its subscribers—a contest in which the prize is having sex with a porn star. The entire film is shot from the point of view of the website’s cameras recording the on-screen and behind-the-scenes action.

Directed By: Robert Nathan

Written By: Lukas Kendall, Robert Nathan

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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56% Negative
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70
Mar 6, 2014
Lucky Bastard is a bold little thriller — and deft cautionary tale.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 11, 2014
The film is most successful when humanizing the people behind the objectification, with lives beyond the smut.
By Rob Staeger FULL REVIEW
50
Feb 13, 2014
Less exploitative and a bit smarter than its seedy adult-film setting would suggest, the shoestring-budgeted film is nevertheless a niche outing that will rely on a stunty premise to attract voyeurs to its debut this Valentine's Day.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
38
Feb 12, 2014
In the end, considering the numerous ways the film goes limp, it seems credibility still eludes the found-footage genre.
By Drew Hunt FULL REVIEW
30
Feb 13, 2014
Robert Nathan’s Lucky Bastard is a sorry-looking found-footage thriller as unconvincing as its characters’ thrashing orgasms.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
12
Feb 12, 2014
No amount of actorly dedication can change the pointlessness of watching unpleasant things happening to uniformly unpleasant people.
By Sara Stewart FULL REVIEW
10
Feb 12, 2014
Lucky Bastard mostly combines the worst of all worlds: the less-clever-than-it-thinks script of old-school porn, the piercing brightness and flatness of video production, an especially lackluster rendering of the played-out found-footage horror concept.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Vineyard Haven
Release Date Feb 14, 2014
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating NC-17
Genres
Tagline This will not end well.
Website https://www.facebook.com/luckybastardmovie
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