Fading Gigolo
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his 'manager', the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
30 May 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
7 August 1980, Saint-Mars-d'Outillé, Sarthe, France
25 December 1987, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
22 December 1972, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France
20 December 1954, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
10 March 1958, Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA
March 09, 2017
Tone-deaf, ugly to look at... Fading Gigolo is one man's tribute to himself, decades too late.
November 07, 2014
Turturro and Allen make for a good double act in some strong scenes, but the film as a whole feels light, without too much real substance.
May 22, 2014
A story that pretends to be about sex but is actually focused on revealing the true nature of intimacy.
August 15, 2014
Though not a Woody Allen picture, it's clear Fading Gigolo is heavily influenced by the work of its supporting actor.
May 08, 2014
The chemistry is just right between Allen and Turturro, who immediately register as best friends for life, and between Stone and Turturro, whose mutual awkwardness gives way to a goofy form of passion.
May 22, 2014
The premise is preposterous and many of the gags are tasteless, yet the tone is gentle, even elegiac, and the players are surprisingly sensitive.
May 08, 2014
While Allen emerges from this mash-up relatively unscathed, Turturro as an implausible male prostitute gets maimed at the intersection of comedy and drama.
May 09, 2014
"Fading Gigolo" may be far from perfect, but it's near impossible to dislike.
April 18, 2016
In his own films, Woody tends to give the meatiest lines to his costars while he walks off with the wisecracks. Here he finds a most gracious host in Turturro, who happily focuses the spotlight on his prize casting coup.
July 01, 2014
In today's economy, Gigolo opens a new service option, but the movie's concept works better when played for absurdity.
May 23, 2014
The preposterousness of this plot marks Fading Gigolo as a vanity project, but it's hard to take Turturro too much to task when he hits so many other grace notes in between blowing his own horn.
October 05, 2014
You wouldn't think that a comedy about a Brooklyn florist who becomes a professional gigolo could possibly be dull, especially one that holds out the prospect of a threesome involving Sharon Stone and Sofia Vergara.
