Pimp
The movie follows a week which spirals brutally out of contro in the life of Woody, a once-successful Soho pimp caught in a treacherous world of dangerous criminals and lethal femme fatales.
18 April 1965, Haringey, London, England, UK
24 July 1977, Canning Town, London, England, UK
8 June 1976, Brixton, London, England, UK
8 May 1984, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
6 March 1981, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
16 May 1979, Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia [now Slovak Republic]
1970
27 January 1974, Stockport, England, UK
20 December 1965, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
28 August 1968, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
April1985, London, England, UK
7 January 1963, Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
May 21, 2010
Both breathtakingly crass and unintentionally funny without ever being engaging or entertaining.
May 21, 2010
Everything about this supposedly raw exposé feels like yesterday's news.
May 21, 2010
The sight of Dyer operating under the delusion he's channelling Al Pacino is grim enough, but the real blame must be laid at the door of director/star/co-writer Cavanah, who seriously underperforms in all three roles.
May 21, 2010
With nil insight - into the sex industry or anything else - you might conclude Pimp is a film for men who get their kicks watching Dyer strut around leering at topless women who -- in the parlance of the film -- look like "the basic pleasure model".
May 21, 2010
You wouldn't think a film could actually be both very boring and very offensive. Pimp is that paradox made flesh
May 21, 2010
With its excessive levels of casual racism, sexism and homophobia, the film feels like nothing more than a rejected 'Derek and Clive' sketch that's been stripped of eloquence and irony and calibrated instead for cheap, leery laughs.
May 21, 2010
Tight close-ups and direct-to- camera confessionals are the order of the day in a film so peppered with sleazy sex, casual violence and endless swearing that it comes perilously close to caricature. Nobody's finest hour.
May 21, 2010
For a film that limply purports to lift the lid on the sordid world of Soho sex trafficking this dismal offering is chock full of rank misogyny.
May 21, 2010
Awful -- bad acting, the worst kind of cockney clichés.
May 21, 2010
It does, however, make you pity the desperate men and women who allow themselves to be degraded on camera for a few quid (the actors in Pimp).
May 21, 2010
The plot, concerning the identity of a snuff-movie killer, is a gruesome mixture of sexual sadism and sentimentality, made even less palatable by dialogue of quarter-witted aggression.
