"What the world needs now," once sand Dionne Warwick, "is love sweet love." But she was wrong. What the world actually needs now is for Jennifer Garner to get naked in a rubbish-sounding erotic thriller. And by "the world," we mean "over-sexed teenage boys."
That’s Disney’s reasoning, anyway. It’s just signed up Jennifer Garner for Sabbatical, a thrilling film that’s a bit on the erotic side, too.
Jennifer Garner (DVDs) wants it all right now. In the last few months she’s
got married to Ben Affleck and let him get her . And then, as her
hormone-crazed body is at the height of it’s postnatal weirdness, she’s going to
walk around in front of a camera naked for the forthcoming Disney
erotic thriller Sabbatical.
Sabbatical could well be the first decent mainstream erotic thriller
in years. After all, Jennifer Garner has a giant legion of geeky,
dribbling comic book fans who have all imagined what she looked like naked throughout every second of Alias and Elektra. And presumably Sabbatical will give them
their chance.
But on the other hand, erotic thrillers are – well – a bit, you
know, shit. Sliver, Body Of Evidence, Colour Of Night, Jade, In The
Cut, The Getaway, Fair Game… all movies that have a) been so cack that
they have actually ended careers, and b) only really been watched by sneaky
randy 13-year-old boys when they get broadcast on TV and their parents are sleeping.
But what of Jennifer Garner in Sabbatical? Will Sabbatical buck the
trend of lousy erotic thrillers? Here’s the plot, according to Reuters:
A couple… hits the doldrums in their seventh year of marriage. To
inject some life into their union, they decide to take a two-week
sabbatical from each other during which, within a set of rules, they
can do whatever they want. When the wife returns to the agreed-upon
meeting place two weeks later, however, she discovers that her husband
has disappeared.
We could be wrong, but we’ve never read a synopsis that screams "1am Wednesday night on Channel 5" louder.
Sabbatical has no release date set.
Read more:
Jennifer Garner takes a Sabbatical – Comingsoon
[story by Stuart Heritage]
TidewaterAlive says
Today we learned that Jen and Ben now have a new little star in their lives, a little girl reportedly named Violet. And, Garner is expected to resume her film career soon. Last spring, she began filming “Catch and Release,” which is set to open in 2006.