Man of the Year

"He as a centerfold who revealed everything ... but the truth."

Mar 15 1996 N/A 1h 26m
Comedy, Romance

First-time director Dirk Shafer also penned this raucous "mockumentary," a blend of fact and fiction that re-creates his 1992 reign as Playgirl magazine's Centerfold of the Year. When Shafer chooses to keep the fact that he's gay a secret from the magazine's editors, he finds himself living the ultimate lie -- and incapable of giving female readers what they really want. Will he succumb to his lover's pressures to come out of the closet?

Plot

Mockumentary look at Playgirl Magazine centerfold and 1992 Man of the Year, Dirk Shafer, who kept it a secret from the magazine that he is gay. Most of the film is a fictionalized retelling of Dirk's decision to send a photograph to Playgirl, his selection as a centerfold and then Man of the Year, his many TV interviews, his friend Vivian Paxton posing as his beard, and the pressures from his live-in lover to come out of the closet. Interspersed with this chronological narrative are a black and white look at an evening Dirk spends with Angela Lucassey, a woman from Reno who wins Playgirl's national contest to have a date with Dirk, and an interview with a stripper who tracks Dirk down.

Written by

Dirk Shafer

Directed by

Dirk Shafer

Cast

Vivian Paxton, Claudette Sutherland, Michael Ornstein

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
363
Average Rating
5.9 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA