Man of the Year

Sep 15, 1995

1h 26m

★ 3.1

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

Overview

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?

Genres

Comedy

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Cast

Dirk

Dirk Shafer

Angela Lucassy

Mary Stein

Tammy Shafer

Claudette Sutherland

Ken Shafer

Cal Bartlett

Vivian

Vivian Paxton

Mike Miller

Michael Ornstein

Kelly Bound

Beth Broderick

Betty Levy

Cynthia Szigeti

Howie Diadone

Dennis Bailey

Ed, the photographer

Charles Sloane

Dr. Marsha Demarkey

Phyllis Franklin

Pledge Cartwright

Bill Brochtrup

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