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GIGOLO
By Raj Sangha

GENRE: Drama
LOGLINE:

After being imprisoned following a heist gone wrong, a well-endowed expert thief is recruited into the porn industry, where he faces a reckoning of love and loss, only to end up fighting a frame job for a murder he didn't commit.

SYNOPSIS:

We open in an opulent manor house that is in the process of being broken into by the rakishly handsome gentleman thief JACK and his compatriots LENNY and CHARLIE. Using safe cracking equipment, Jack manages to crack a secure safe, unveiling bars of gold inside. He then leaves his trademark behind -- a ten inch dildo, which he always utilises as a parting gift. They head out with the gold. Moments later, an ARISTOCRAT and his WIFE return home and are stunned to find they've been burgled. Lenny gets a call from their overseer GEORGE, who directs them towards their next job -- stealing a laptop from JONAS SMITH, a famous movie director. Lenny decides to cut Charlie out of this gig so they can split a larger share of the proceeds. Jack is uneasy with this arrangement, but ultimately goes along with it.

Using the proceeds from the prior heist, Charlie goes to a prestigious art gallery, where a SELLER convinces him to buy a painting of money by "Bottategi" for twenty thousand pounds, promising it will go up in value. Charlie calls Lenny asking for a loan and tells him how much he spent on the painting, but Lenny tells him that work has dried up. However, Charlie then runs into George and learns about the job, furious and stung that he's been cut out of the mix. Jack and Lenny show up at Jonas's home to steal the laptop, which contains confidential screenplays. As they scour the house we see Jonas out for dinner with friends. He gets a call from his younger GIRLFRIEND who asks him for a sexual liaison. He goes to meet her at his house, showing up earlier than Jack and Lenny expected. Lenny makes a run for it but Jack is stuck in the closet with the dildo left out in the open, where Jonas's girlfriend mistakes it as part of their foreplay. When Jonas happens upon it and says it isn't his, she grows angry and assumes he's cheating on her. But finally, he gets through to her that someone's in the house. He creeps towards the closet and discovers Jack, catching him red handed.

Jack is arrested and sent to prison. There, he's frisked by a guard who notices that he has a very large penis. Guard tells his friend to call an acquaintance of theirs -- BEN DOVER, a prolific porn director -- and tell him that they've spotted some potential new talent. We find Ben in his penthouse where he films KEN, a generic hunk, and beautiful bimbo CRYSTAL, as they engage in fervent sex. Ben takes the Guard's call and agrees to meet with Jack. Charlie goes to confront Lenny angrily about the prior gig, but Lenny ameliorates him by offering another heist job. The guard takes Jack aside in prison and tells him he has a gift due to being so well hung. He invites in Ben, who offers him a job. Incredibly enthused, Jack agrees, but wonders how he's going to get sprung from prison. We then learn that the JUDGE who sentenced Jack is a client of Ben's escort service. Ben blackmails the Judge into lessening Jack's sentence and setting him free.

Ben takes Jack to his penthouse and introduces him to Crystal. Ben films them as they passionately get it on. At a ballet performance at Royal Albert Hall, we find ROMAN a wealthy Russian oligarch and his beautiful wife SVETLANA. Theirs is a loveless marriage due to Roman's wandering eye for other women. Roman humiliates Svetlana by running off with a sexy Ticket Hostess right in front of her. Jack, at the same venue, approaches Svetlana and begins trying to charm her. She's subtly attracted to him and accepts his business card. Ben films a scene between Jack and Crystal and male porn star MATT and Mediterranean honey JORJA watch on. It's clear that Matt is smitten and very much in love with Crystal, who's being banged by Jack. Later, Jack hangs out and snorts coke with Matt, Crystal, and JANI, black and bubbly. Later, Crystal gives Jack the idea to write about his experiences in porn. Jack then shows up at Svetlana's opulent home and the two of them quickly get down and dirty. Later, Jack begins to write his autobiography, entitled "FANTASY LOVE." After sex, Svetlana tells Jack that she wants him to dispose of Roman. Jack won't go along with it, but she says if he refuses she'll tell Roman and have him killed instead. She then informs Jack that Roman has a safe with over four million pounds sterling in it which will be his once Roman's out of the picture. Jack agrees. We see Roman at his work in a stockbroking firm overseeing the trading floor, where he asks his assistant MICHELLE out for dinner.

Matt and Crystal have sex on camera while Jack barges in, frustrated, approaching Jani and begins penetrating her roughly to blow off steam about what he is embroiled in. He tells Jani about the four million sterling offer. In turn, Jani tells Jack that she thinks Crystal might be in love with him. Just then, Crystal walks in on Jack and Jani together and storms out, hurt. Jack goes to find her and tells her that his attraction for her is purely physical -- not love. Ben comes in and starts inquiring about what's going on. When he learns that Jack has turned Crystal's love down, he grows angry and condemns Jack and Jani. Jack changes the title of his book to "LOVE'S COMPLEXITIES" and continues working on it. Lenny calls him up while watching one of Jack's pornos -- he's learned about his new career. Lenny proposes a gig to Jack, but Jack says he's onto something much larger that they could work out: Roman's four million pound haul.

Jack makes love with Svetlana again and afterwards she tells him that the safe is located behind a certain painting above her fireplace. Roman has his date with Michelle, then they proceed up to his room to have sex. Jack does research on Roman and finds that he's involved with various criminal dealings. After shooting a scene, Matt confesses his love to Crystal, but she tells him she doesn't feel the same way, devastating him. Meanwhile, Lenny tells Charlie about the four million, as well as Jack's adult career. Later, Jack gets a call from Jani informing him that Crystal was found dead. She was murdered by an unknown assailant. Ben tells the porn stars to go about their business and leave the matter to the police.

The cops arrive at Jack's place to question him over Crystal's death. They ask where Jack was at the time of Crystal's murder, and he tells them he was with Svetlana. The cops tell Jack they'll need to substantiate his claim. Roman encounters Michelle at the office and cruelly breaks off their relationship while also firing her. The police officers go to Svetlana to confirm Jack's alibi, but she wishes to avoid scandal and denies that she was with him. Svetlana calls Jack, angry about the police showing up, and when he learns she denied his alibi, he realises he's screwed. Charlie meets with Lenny and suggests selling his painting for some cash. They go to an auction house only for the painting to sell for a meagre hundred pounds. Charlie realises he was misled and duped by the seller.

Ben gives Jack a USB containing a porn scene of Crystal's -- her last -- which he wants him to edit. Roman makes amends with Svetlana and they fall for each other anew, passionately making love. Jack finishes his manuscript and again retitles it "THE PUNISHMENT OF LOVING." Lenny and Charlie show up at Jack's place to discuss the heist of Roman's millions. Lenny says he has a plan. Jack takes his manuscript to a female AGENT, who agrees to set up the book to be published for something in exchange -- to have sex with a real porn star. They then have sex in her office and she lives out her fantasy. Lenny and Charlie recruit Jani to work for them. They use her to help distract Roman outside his home with her sexuality, thus pissing off Svetlana. As Roman rushes off after her, the coast is clear. Jack, Lenny and Charlie enter the house, ready for their biggest heist ever. But will they be able to get away scot-free with the life-changing haul, or will the long arm of the law catch up with them first? And, furthermore, with Jack pegged to Crystal's murder, will Jack be able to prove his innocence? Will Jack ever learn the truth about Crystal's murder? These mysteries unfurl in shocking fashion, leading to a wholly unexpected climax.

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