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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Carla Gugino amps up her heat factor--and proves she's more than a leading lady--in the title role of Elektra Luxx. Elektra Luxx is actually a sequel of sorts to Women in Trouble, but Luxx can be appreciated on its own. For Elektra Luxx has charm, wit, true hilarity, and more than a little mystery, along with its joyous celebration of sexy womanhood. Writer-director Sebastian Gutierrez (companion of Gugino) appears poised to take over the flashy-sex-comedy genre as first crafted by Pedro Almodóvar (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown). Gugino again plays former porn star Elektra Luxx, who's retired from "the biz" and teaching community college classes called "How to Have Sex like a Porn Star" to housewives. She's pregnant and happy--until a friend, Cora (Marley Shelton), reappears in her life with a proposition that's a bit of blackmail, a bit of gumshoeing, and a lot of farcical sexiness. Gugino is a wonder (and the wonder is that Hollywood hasn't used her more often as a star), able to combine comedy, poignancy, maturity, and boatloads of sex appeal into one believable package. The supporting cast is also great fun, including Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception, 500 Days of Summer) as the narrator of sorts, a porn blogger devoted to the career of Elektra Luxx, and reigning supreme from the basement of his mom's house. The other starlets, including Shelton, Adrianne Palicki, Emmanuelle Chriqui, and Malin Akerman, show a great gift for slapstick comedy and seem to be having a grand old time--a light feeling that's infectious for the viewer. Timothy Olyphant plays a hunky guy in the middle of the blackmail plot, and has plenty of star quality too. But Elektra Luxx is really a buddy film for and about women, without a trace of the tawdry that could accompany the subject matter. This isn't to say the raunch factor isn't high--it is, so Elektra Luxx definitely isn't for kids. But grownups enjoying a modern spin on a splendid sex farce will have plenty of fun with Elektra Luxx. --A.T. Hurley

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