Lust auf Sex

I remember I saw this film in 1981. Being in my early twenties, it had an impact in me. It deals about obsessions in a man that having not aged to well due to a excessively free lifestyle, has to coupe with the fact that his own sexual capabilities are fading. Now, he can only get his act together, sometimes, after he watches his beautiful girlfriend being fondled by other men. On one occasion, he even hired a guy to be with her while he watched from a closet. The case is, his girlfriend,trying to help him so that he could perform, agreed to the thing. For the man, not going all the way while making love was a personal trauma. The circumstances about his descend are very well shown, almost in a classy way.

Your ticket is no longer valid explores something that recent surveys have shown all to well: it is a fantasy of many men to watch their partners doing it with another man. Whether that comes true or not is another issue.

The surroundings of the film are great as well as its locations. It has its funny moments also.There is a short part from that great actor, George Peppard.

Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid is a strange title for a film, but it works as a metaphor. The ticket is Richard Harris's penis, and the reason it is no longer valid is that he can no longer get an erection.

The film is about a business mogul named Jason (Harris) who has a younger lover called Laura (Dale). As the pressures of his deteriorating business begin to tell on him, Jason discovers that his sex life is also affected. He is losing his ability to get an erection and satisfy her in bed. To make matters worse, he begins to have dreams about a gypsy stud having sex with her, and finds himself shamefully excited by these dreams. In the end, he contemplates suicide in order to spare his lovely lady the unhappiness of a sexless relationship.

It's a bizarre and often tasteless film, with the most unusual cast you could ever hope to find in such a project. However, the performances are pretty good, especially Harris who somehow manages to convince in one of the most near-unplayable roles of his career. George Peppard is good too as a racist rival banker, who uses dirty language like "f@ck" and "c*nt" as if it's going out of fashion. Beyond the performances, there isn't that much to recommend the film. It tries to deal with its themes seriously and meaningfully, but it ends up playing like a campy sleazefest, mixed in with some fake overtones of tragedy.

If upon hearing the title of this movie, you don't immediately know what it's referring to, you shouldn't be watching it. This completely cheesy, ridiculously '80s sex-fest is hilarious - and totally entertaining to the ladies in the audience. I would absolutely watch it again, with a bottle of bubbly and a bunch of my girlfriends to giggle with.

Richard Harris starts off the movie with a high-end job, a beautiful young wife, and the world at his fingertips. But when he goes to a party and chats with his old friend George Peppard, he succumbs to the power of suggestion. George lets it slip that he's not the stallion he once was in the bedroom, and Richard is afraid that since they're both of the same advancing years, he might suffer from the same "partial" problem. It's a bit of a shock to hear George Peppard saying such racy jokes, but it's still very funny and naughty to see someone who acted before the Production Code was dismantled act in one of these movies. It will be an even greater shock - for those who grew up watching the Harry Potter movies - to see Richard Harris in graphic sex scenes. But those who are a little older and are used to seeing him baring his bod (still lovely to look at, even at fifty years old) won't find anything objectionable in this nasty drama. His striptease in the rain: there's nothing objectionable in that.

You'll be able to tell right away if this movie is for you or not. My motivation to watch it is obvious, but it'll pretty much be impossible not to get a crush on Richard Harris after watching this movie. You'll find out.

Kiddy Warning: Obviously, you have control over your own children. However, due to graphic sex scenes, I wouldn't let my kids watch it.

I totally recommend this movie if you are a Richard Harris fan (who isn't?), if you don't dig him, nix this as it is somewhat shameless. Once again, Richard is being his usual exhibitionist self...the way I like it. He is so utterly not self-conscious about his shameless parading, he becomes attractive for that very reason. Too bad there was no full monty a girl can be curious, right ).

This was a rather disgusting movie is alot of ways, but at the same time, I think it was really wonderful. It was a gross-out way to show men the extent they will go to in preservation of their sex drive or lack thereof. Richard Harris is wonderful as the man who's losing everything at the same time, and goes to the most extreme measures to hold on to his fortunes in business and romance. The sex fantasy sequences are stupid and gratuitous, it could have been a much better film without them. I don't want to give too much away but Harris' performance as "Jason" is a tour de force. Jennifer Dale is excellent as "Laura", the young girl who would love him no matter what.