7 December 2006
Agentes out-horrifies Turistas
Agentes makes Turistas look like a tourist bureau
commercial
Sao Paulo, Brazil -- As the flap continues here over the B-grade horror
film, Turistas, an even more controversial movie is about to be
released.
 Agentes will be released into distribution sometime
next month and is expected to set a new level of anxiety among the
world's travelers.
While Turistas has plenty of blood and guts—and plenty of T and
A, too—Agentes proves to be much more frightening as this true-to-life
horror flick documents the escapades of those who the hospitality
industry euphemistically refer to as "customer service agents."
The movie stars Madison Gratten as Jennifer, a mean-spirited a hotel
clerk and Sean Whitkeson as Brian, Jennifer's roommate and an even more
devilish airline gate agent. At every turn, the film graphically
illustrates how these couple of low-paid low-lives can ruin property,
careers, families and even send otherwise composed travelers into
psychotherapy.
In one rather disturbing scene Brian (played by Whitkeson) assigns a
seat to an elderly woman who he feels has "dissed" him by asking him to
give her a seat assignment instead of chatting with other agents behind
the counter. Brian obliges but then seats the woman between a mother
carrying an infant on her lap and a loser with terminal body odor. Then
he sends the woman's checked luggage to Istanbul.
In another scene Jennifer is seen putting a hotel guest in a room across the hall
from an ice machine and next to a room booked by a fraternity in town
for a college football game.
Samuel Riutell, executive producer of the film, told Travel Fox that the
movie cost just over $22 million to produce and that he expects to gross
over $435 million worldwide. "That," said Riutell, "is a tremendous
payback especially since no airline is likely to purchase it for
on-board viewing nor is any hotel likely to offer it among their
in-house movie selections."
Agentes runs 92 minutes and is rated NP.
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