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The promotional materials for Middle Men assert that this movie would like to take us back to a simpler time?a time when the Internet wasn?t used for buying things, when record stores still existed, and when people got their porn on paper?and then show us how it all changed after the advent of anodyne-sounding line items on your credit-card billing statement. Indeed, during its beginning and closing minutes, the film seems to want to play some kind of explanatory role regarding how we got here, to modernity, with our crazy, mixed-up digital world. But viewing every minute in between suggests something nearly opposite: that its makers actually adore the contemporary, oft-discussed problem of conveying tone on the Internet, and are hoping to bring some of that same contextual chaos into the cineplex?specifically, into a period piece focused on some very recent history.

The film?s entire based-on-real-life story revolves around one businessman (played by Luke Wilson), who labors mightily in order to remain of several minds about the porn business for an impressive length of time. That is to say, he would like to be a key economic player at the beginning of its mid-?90s online distribution model (only a ?middle man? on the credit-card side, thus the title), while remaining a blushing innocent when it comes to the nitty-gritty grind of smut?s production. Much later, while still swearing that he?s not a pornographer, Wilson?s character decides to date a Webcam starlet after separating from the mother of his children. I think this is called having it several ways, though the movie isn?t much interested in helping us keep track.

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