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| ==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||
| According to the British online newspaper '']'', the film will center on "allegations made by Trump allies" about Hunter Biden's foreign business deals.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Spocchia |first1=Gina |title='My Son Hunter': Conservative filmmakers crowdfund for movie about Hunter Biden |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hunter-biden-film-laptop-crowdfund-b1820291.html |access-date=August 28, 2022 |work=The Independent |date=March 21, 2021}}</ref><ref name=NME/> The producers stated that the film will depict the alleged "business dealings and lifestyle of Hunter Biden".<ref name=Fox2/> | According to the British online newspaper '']'', the film will center on "allegations made by Trump allies" about Hunter Biden's foreign business deals.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Spocchia |first1=Gina |title='My Son Hunter': Conservative filmmakers crowdfund for movie about Hunter Biden |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hunter-biden-film-laptop-crowdfund-b1820291.html |access-date=August 28, 2022 |work=The Independent |date=March 21, 2021}}</ref><ref name=NME/> The producers stated that the film will depict the alleged "business dealings and lifestyle of Hunter Biden".<ref name=Fox2/> | ||
| ==Plot== | |||
| In December 2019, Hunter meets a stripper named Kitty at a drug-fueled sex party at ], and leaves with her to buy more drugs at a gang hideout. During the drive and their return to the hotel villa, they open up to each other about their deeply troubled personal lives. | |||
| A ] team led by Agent Hound walks directly into the villa to greet Hunter, and ask him to meet with ] near their ]. Joe and Hunter sit in the parked car to talk privately, where Joe warns Hunter that the FBI subpoenaed his laptop from a repair shop that he forgot to retrieve it from. Hunter tells his father about the laptop’s sordid contents, ranging from pictures depicting his sex and drug addictions to emails regarding their ethically questionable business dealings in foreign countries, and the two of them brainstorm about how to minimize the damage to their reputations. | |||
| Curious as to what they might be discussing, Kitty Google searches “Joe Biden scandal” but only seems to find flattering articles. Tyrone, the bodyguard assigned by Kitty’s boss to protect her for the night, explains that the results are biased and shows her how to use an alternative search engine. Once Hunter comes back inside the villa, Kitty warns him that news stories about his laptop are already on ] and alternative media sites, but reassures him that she doesn’t believe what they’re saying. | |||
| As they grow more physically and emotionally intimate during a week-long stay in the Villa, Kitty confides that her real name is Grace Henderson. Hunter asks her to marry him and although she declines for the time being, she tells him that she still wants to be with him and help him sort his life out. By drawing from her estranged father’s advice over the years as a lawyer and Christian missionary in China, she offers to coach him for interviews and depositions. A hotel employee then comes in and asks them to leave, due to guest complaints and Hunter’s card being declined. Hunter rudely tosses cards and cash at him before they leave. | |||
| Hunter and Grace continue their conversation at his house, where he goes into detail about how he provided Chinese officials favorable treatment from his father in exchange for money. As she grows more disillusioned, she tells him about a Chinese woman that her family befriended during their missionary years who was taken to a concentration camp, and how Hunter’s dealings further enabled China’s human rights abuses. She then tells Hunter that she thinks he subconsciously wanted his laptop found by the authorities, out of resentment towards his father and personal guilt, when they’re interrupted by Joe calling Hunter to tell him that ], successfully redirecting media attention away from them. As Grace leaves Hunter’s house she notices Tyrone standing guard outside, and he gives her audio recordings of practically all of Hunter’s dialogue over the last week, which he initially recorded for liability purposes. When Tyrone walks back inside, Hunter asks him to bring Kitty back to him, and Tyrone simply scoffs at him. | |||
| Having broken up with Hunter, Grace reaches out to her father, and asks for his advice on what to do with the tapes. He advises her to release them, in accordance with the Rule of Discovery. Grace quits her job as a stripper, and calls one of her former clients - a married newspaper reporter with whom she’d been having an affair - to try to share the tapes with him, but he refuses to make a story of them due to his hatred for Donald Trump. | |||
| Grace imagines an alternate reality in which she alone shared the tapes online, endured death threats, and received help from ] to circulate them widely enough to validate his claims about Hunter’s laptop, resulting in Trump winning re-election and Hunter being arrested by the FBI. However, she declined to share the tapes, and instead moved to a new residence and reconciled with her father, telling the audience “I guess that’s what fairytale endings are for, to show us what should have been, what could be, if only we’d change and do something… Or maybe in the end, the truth itself has become the fairytale”. | |||
| ==Cast== | ==Cast== | ||
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| *] as Agent Hound, a secret service agent<ref name=Deadline/><ref name=Movieweb>{{cite web |url=https://movieweb.com/my-son-hunter-gina-carano/ |title=Gina Carano to Play Secret Service Agent in Hunter Biden Biopic My Son Hunter |date=November 19, 2021 |publisher=MovieWeb.com}}</ref><ref name=Newsweek>{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ex-mandalorian-star-gina-carano-play-secret-service-agent-hunter-biden-film-1651059 |title=Ex-'Mandalorian' Star Gina Carano to Play Secret Service Agent in Hunter Biden Film |publisher=Newsweek |last=Villarreal |first=Daniel}}</ref> | *] as Agent Hound, a secret service agent<ref name=Deadline/><ref name=Movieweb>{{cite web |url=https://movieweb.com/my-son-hunter-gina-carano/ |title=Gina Carano to Play Secret Service Agent in Hunter Biden Biopic My Son Hunter |date=November 19, 2021 |publisher=MovieWeb.com}}</ref><ref name=Newsweek>{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ex-mandalorian-star-gina-carano-play-secret-service-agent-hunter-biden-film-1651059 |title=Ex-'Mandalorian' Star Gina Carano to Play Secret Service Agent in Hunter Biden Film |publisher=Newsweek |last=Villarreal |first=Daniel}}</ref> | ||
| *] as U.S. president ]<ref name=Fox>{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/john-james-my-son-hunter-joe-biden-biopic-injury-filming-serbia-hospital-method-acting |title='Dynasty' star John James rushed to hospital amid filming Biden biopic: 'Took method acting to a new level' |last=Overhultz |first=Lauryn |publisher=Fox News |date=November 16, 2021}}</ref><ref name=Deadline2/><ref name=Deseret/><ref name=Hill>{{cite web |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/578357-john-james-to-portray-biden-in-upcoming-biopic-my-son-hunter |title=John James to portray Biden in upcoming biopic 'My Son Hunter' |last=Polus |first=Sarah |work=The Hill}}</ref><ref name=Fox25>{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dynasty-star-john-james-president-joe-biden-my-son-hunter-movie-hunter-biden |title=Former 'Dynasty' star John James' to star as President Biden in 'My Son Hunter': 'The script has it all' |publisher=Fox News |date=October 25, 2021 |last=Nolasco |first=Stephanie}}</ref> | *] as U.S. president ]<ref name=Fox>{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/john-james-my-son-hunter-joe-biden-biopic-injury-filming-serbia-hospital-method-acting |title='Dynasty' star John James rushed to hospital amid filming Biden biopic: 'Took method acting to a new level' |last=Overhultz |first=Lauryn |publisher=Fox News |date=November 16, 2021}}</ref><ref name=Deadline2/><ref name=Deseret/><ref name=Hill>{{cite web |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/578357-john-james-to-portray-biden-in-upcoming-biopic-my-son-hunter |title=John James to portray Biden in upcoming biopic 'My Son Hunter' |last=Polus |first=Sarah |work=The Hill}}</ref><ref name=Fox25>{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dynasty-star-john-james-president-joe-biden-my-son-hunter-movie-hunter-biden |title=Former 'Dynasty' star John James' to star as President Biden in 'My Son Hunter': 'The script has it all' |publisher=Fox News |date=October 25, 2021 |last=Nolasco |first=Stephanie}}</ref> | ||
| *Emma Gojkovic as Grace |
*Emma Gojkovic as Grace "Kitty" Henderson | ||
| *] as Tyrone <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/inside-secretive-private-screening-anti-biden-movie-my-son-hunter-1738304 | title=Inside the secretive private screening of anti-Biden movie, 'My Son Hunter': No red carpet | website=] | date=September 2022 }}</ref> | *] as Tyrone <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/inside-secretive-private-screening-anti-biden-movie-my-son-hunter-1738304 | title=Inside the secretive private screening of anti-Biden movie, 'My Son Hunter': No red carpet | website=] | date=September 2022 }}</ref> | ||
| *] as Terence | *] as Terence | ||
Revision as of 03:21, 20 December 2022
2022 American film
| My Son Hunter | |
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 Promotional poster | |
| Directed by | Robert Davi |
| Written by | |
| Produced by | |
| Starring | |
| Production company | The Unreported Story Society |
| Distributed by | Breitbart News |
| Release date |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.75 million |
My Son Hunter is a film directed by Robert Davi and starring Laurence Fox, Gina Carano and John James. The film centers on Hunter Biden, the son of US president Joe Biden. In 2021, Donald Trump accused Hunter Biden of corruption. It is, according to The Guardian's Catherine Shoard, the "debut fiction attempt" of documentarians Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer. The film is being distributed by American far-right news website Breitbart News, and was released on September 7, 2022.
Synopsis
According to the British online newspaper The Independent, the film will center on "allegations made by Trump allies" about Hunter Biden's foreign business deals. The producers stated that the film will depict the alleged "business dealings and lifestyle of Hunter Biden".
Plot
In December 2019, Hunter meets a stripper named Kitty at a drug-fueled sex party at Chateau Marmont, and leaves with her to buy more drugs at a gang hideout. During the drive and their return to the hotel villa, they open up to each other about their deeply troubled personal lives.
A Secret Service team led by Agent Hound walks directly into the villa to greet Hunter, and ask him to meet with his father near their Chevy Suburban. Joe and Hunter sit in the parked car to talk privately, where Joe warns Hunter that the FBI subpoenaed his laptop from a repair shop that he forgot to retrieve it from. Hunter tells his father about the laptop’s sordid contents, ranging from pictures depicting his sex and drug addictions to emails regarding their ethically questionable business dealings in foreign countries, and the two of them brainstorm about how to minimize the damage to their reputations.
Curious as to what they might be discussing, Kitty Google searches “Joe Biden scandal” but only seems to find flattering articles. Tyrone, the bodyguard assigned by Kitty’s boss to protect her for the night, explains that the results are biased and shows her how to use an alternative search engine. Once Hunter comes back inside the villa, Kitty warns him that news stories about his laptop are already on Fox News and alternative media sites, but reassures him that she doesn’t believe what they’re saying.
As they grow more physically and emotionally intimate during a week-long stay in the Villa, Kitty confides that her real name is Grace Henderson. Hunter asks her to marry him and although she declines for the time being, she tells him that she still wants to be with him and help him sort his life out. By drawing from her estranged father’s advice over the years as a lawyer and Christian missionary in China, she offers to coach him for interviews and depositions. A hotel employee then comes in and asks them to leave, due to guest complaints and Hunter’s card being declined. Hunter rudely tosses cards and cash at him before they leave.
Hunter and Grace continue their conversation at his house, where he goes into detail about how he provided Chinese officials favorable treatment from his father in exchange for money. As she grows more disillusioned, she tells him about a Chinese woman that her family befriended during their missionary years who was taken to a concentration camp, and how Hunter’s dealings further enabled China’s human rights abuses. She then tells Hunter that she thinks he subconsciously wanted his laptop found by the authorities, out of resentment towards his father and personal guilt, when they’re interrupted by Joe calling Hunter to tell him that Donald Trump has been impeached, successfully redirecting media attention away from them. As Grace leaves Hunter’s house she notices Tyrone standing guard outside, and he gives her audio recordings of practically all of Hunter’s dialogue over the last week, which he initially recorded for liability purposes. When Tyrone walks back inside, Hunter asks him to bring Kitty back to him, and Tyrone simply scoffs at him.
Having broken up with Hunter, Grace reaches out to her father, and asks for his advice on what to do with the tapes. He advises her to release them, in accordance with the Rule of Discovery. Grace quits her job as a stripper, and calls one of her former clients - a married newspaper reporter with whom she’d been having an affair - to try to share the tapes with him, but he refuses to make a story of them due to his hatred for Donald Trump.
Grace imagines an alternate reality in which she alone shared the tapes online, endured death threats, and received help from Rudy Giuliani to circulate them widely enough to validate his claims about Hunter’s laptop, resulting in Trump winning re-election and Hunter being arrested by the FBI. However, she declined to share the tapes, and instead moved to a new residence and reconciled with her father, telling the audience “I guess that’s what fairytale endings are for, to show us what should have been, what could be, if only we’d change and do something… Or maybe in the end, the truth itself has become the fairytale”.
Cast
- Laurence Fox as Hunter Biden
- Gina Carano as Agent Hound, a secret service agent
- John James as U.S. president Joe Biden
- Emma Gojkovic as Grace "Kitty" Henderson
- Franklin Ayodele as Tyrone
- Joe Nichols as Terence
- Jay Lim as Ye Jianming
- Ljubisa Milisic as Mykola Zlochevsky
- Sasa Djordjevic as Viktor Yanukovych
- Donald Borza II as Dinesh D'Souza
- Dean Jones as Stephen Miller
- Starr Jones as Louie Gohmert
- Nenad Herakovic as Devon Archer
Development and filming
Two conservative Irish filmmakers, Ann McElhinney and Phelim McAleer, are developing the film while attempting to raise its budget. When the film was first announced, it introduced its attempt to raise 2.5 million dollars via a private crowdfunding site. Currently, the project has raised over 2.5 million dollars from crowdfunding on its official site. Pre-production started as early as February 2021 according to star Gina Carano. The movie's crew includes Robert Davi as director, and Phelim McAleer & Ann McElhinney as producers.
Gina Carano, who will be playing a "world-weary" secret service agent in the film stated: "The script was instantly intriguing and side achingly hilarious to me, especially after being newly exposed to the political realm in 2020. Robert Davi is someone who reached out to me as soon as I was 'canceled' in Feb. 2021. I signed on in support of him and one of my favorite humans, Laurence Fox."
Production began in October 2021 in Serbia, and lasted for four weeks. During filming John James, who portrayed Joe Biden, had an off-set injury and was rushed to the hospital, though he continued filming after treatment saying that "the show must go on".
Reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 67% of 6 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.6/10.
The Spectator Australia called the movie a "socially dangerous, ego-damaging, and down-right delicious exposé of the Hunter Biden laptop scandal". Armond White of National Review said that the film "serves a muckraking, restorative function", and wrote: "Make no mistake, McAleer is polemical, but My Son Hunter doesn't condemn Hunter Biden so much as understand him and the nature of his offense — thus demonstrating the ultimate form of journalistic scruples."
Charles Bramesco of The Guardian wrote: "Writing critically about a film like My Son Hunter feels kind of like sending the kid making fart noises from the back of the class to detention", and described the film as a "fiction-laced retelling of the Hunter Biden laptop nothingburger" and a "dank bog of paranoia and conspiracy theorizing that is the sophomore directorial effort from Robert Davi." Naomi Fry of The New Yorker called the film "an amateurish, often batshit, if very occasionally vulgarly amusing satire-cum-thriller-cum-melodrama-cum-propaganda-organ, which switches between modes with the head-spinning unexpectedness of a Surrealist cutup."
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