Man of the Year (1995)
September 15, 1995Release Date
Man of the Year (1995)
September 15, 1995Release Date
Plot.
Where to Watch.
This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Vivian Paxton
Self
Mary Stein
Angela Lucassy
Claudette Sutherland
Tammy Shafer
Michael Ornstein
Mike Miller
Cal Bartlett
Ken Shafer
Dirk Shafer
Director
Beth Broderick
Kelly Bound
Matt Keener
Producer
Cynthia Szigeti
Betty Levy
Peitor Angell
Composer
Stephen Timberlake
Cinematographer
Dennis Bailey
Howie Diadone
Barry S. Silver
Editor
Charles Sloane
Ed, the photographer
Ken Solomon
Editor
Ken Solomon
Editor
Details.
Release DateSeptember 15, 1995
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 26m
Content RatingNR
Box Office$209,935
Genres
Wiki.
Man of the Year is a 1995 mockumentary film written, directed by and starring Dirk Shafer. It is a fictionalized account of Shafer's reign as Playgirl magazine's 1992 "Man of the Year" and his struggle with reconciling his public persona as a sex symbol to women with his identity as a gay man. Shafer combines mock interviews (both with some of the actual people involved and with actors standing in for the actual people) with archive footage from Shafer's appearances on talk shows like Donahue, The Maury Povich Show and The Jerry Springer Show (along with an early appearance on Dance Fever) and recreations of events like his Playgirl photoshoots, his "fantasy date" with a Playgirl reader and the death of his friend Pledge Cartwright (played by actor Bill Brochtrup) of an AIDS-related illness to relate the story.