Nicole Kidman, Zac Efron and Matthew McConaughey in ‘The Paperboy’
Lee Daniels’ third feature was dismissed when premiering in Cannes.
This overripe slice of Florida swamp pulp lets Nicole Kidman go full Sharon Stone, seemingly taking style tips from the cover of Dusty in Memphis.
Her masturbatory display tantalizing John Cusack’s handcuffed alligator-hunting redneck — he’s locked up for murder — is shocking, too.
Even wilder is her waving off some young women on a beach attempting to neutralize the jellyfish stings covering Zac Efron’s body by urinating on him.
“Move it! If anyone’s gonna piss on him it’s gonna be me!”
At his Cannes press conference, Daniels justified the film’s eroticization of Efron’s character in tight-white undies: “The camera can’t help but love him. And I’m gay. What do you want?”





