A Vida Secreta de Zoe

A little more romantic than most recent films about sex addiction like Nymphomaniac part 1 and 2, but thankfully the movie does not dumb down the condition. Instead, simplifies it greatly.

The movie focus is on a happily married woman who fills a void in her life when an affair with another man triggers her sex addiction using a more romantic approach.

The entire cast did a good acting job. I've never seen William Levy in anything before, but I thought he played a good "Mistress" in this film. Lead actress Sharon Leal and Boris Kodjoe were also good in the movie.

Not as melodramatic as you would expect from movies like this, and it had some pretty awesome love scenes. A winning combo for me.

Addicted is a 2014 American erotic drama thriller directed by Billie Woodruff starring Sharon leal, Boris Kodjoe, Tyson Beckford, Kat graham and William Levy. So the storyline is not bad as this does happen in real life as Zoe in the film being addicted to sex and how it can cause serious problems when in a relationship I think there showed that rather well in the movie with plenty of hot men lol. The acting was not the best but there did try their best to portray the characters. Very predictable In places but okay film have seen so much better though. So if you like fifty shades then you will like this just not as good. Currently streaming on Netflix right now. For adults only.

I love movies and never walk out. I walked out of this one after sitting through a painful 40 minutes or so. It is hideously awful in every way: terrible script (written by idiotic middle school kids?), god-awful, idiotic acting and directing. It was boring to boot, even though it was supposed to be about sex addiction, and it was supposed to have beautiful people in it. It wasn't even good as porn. Actual porn is far better, even as non-porn, than this. The leading actress was not beautiful, or believable in any way. None of the actors had any credibility nor did they rescue any part of the incomprehensibly stupid script so as to make any moment seem even vaguely possible or real. Was everyone associated with this "film" a complete idiot with an IQ below 80?

This is supposed to be a tale of sex addiction? Because it feels a lot more like one of those terrible Lifetime melodramas.

Synopsis: Addicted is a 2014 American erotic thriller drama film directed by Bille Woodruff from a screenplay by Christina Welsh and Ernie Barbarash, based on Zane's novel of the same name. It stars Sharon Leal, Boris Kodjoe, Tasha Smith, Tyson Beckford, Emayatzy Corinealdi, and William Levy. The film was released in the United States on October 10, 2014, by Lionsgate. It received generally negative reviews from critics.

Successful businesswoman Zoe Reynard (Sharon Leal) seems to have a charmed life. She has a wonderful, loving husband (Boris Kodjoe), two beautiful children and a thriving career. However, as perfect as her life might look to other people, Zoe is secretly tormented by nymphomania. Her need for constant sexual gratification leads her into a secretive existence -- one that, ultimately, may put her family, career and life on the line. Based on a novel by Zane.

This movie has a lot of problems.

Briefly, it's the story of a young professional woman, Zoe, with a husband, Jason, who would be every woman's - and some men's - wet dream. He has a perfect, muscled body, a smile that could melt an iceberg, and he even washes the dishes. They have sex 2 or 3 times a day. Not a week, a day.

But it isn't enough for her. She wants more.

But more of what? That's one of the problems with this movie. There is a lot of sex in it, though none of it shocking by modern movie standards. But for all the sex, we still have to guess at what Zoe wants. Is it yet more sex? Different sex? Kinkier sex? Is this a distant cousin to *Fifty Shades of Grey* that dares not speak of its desires? Zoe hooks up with an unsubtle but muscled white painter - who, in my eyes, has no talent - and has with him what looks like pretty much the same sort of sex she had been having with her husband. Then she hooks up with a messenger on a motorcycle. Their sex, though no doubt wonderful, looks pretty much the same as what she is having with the other two men, though it usually takes place on a table.

In between all this, Zoe ignores her children and lets her work go down the drain. She is, we are to believe, a sex addict.

That's the first problem. Zoe comes across as insatiable, but not really addicted. She only has men who are so astoundingly handsome/sexy that they would tempt all but the most virtuous. Yet if this movie had been called *Insatiable*, she would have come across as a harlot rather than a sick individual to be pitied, and would have lost the sympathies of the intended audience of well-meaning 20-40 something women. If she were actually addicted to sex, she would have had sex with anyone, and that is not the case. She is only attracted to the hottest men.

The second problem is that her poor husband, Jason, evidently detects nothing once Zoe is unfaithful to him - daily. When he does finally learn he's unhappy, of course, but we know so little about him, he's so poorly developed, that we still can't sympathize with him, though he is the potentially most sympathetic character in the movie.

These actors could probably all have done a lot better if they had been given a script that had developed characters and not just cardboard cut-outs. As it is, we get to watch a lot of evidently passionate sex performed by beautiful bodies, and then at the end have to listen to a few lectures on sexual addiction, which don't come across as very convincing. Zoe's particular case is never explored, so it's hard to believe in it or feel for her.

Zoe's sexual problems with Jason needed to be made clearer. How was he failing her? Jason needs to have been given a character; it's not enough for him just to look great. The script just doesn't make any of the characters interesting and sympathetic, and that's fatal here.