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Official Throwback Discussion - Tomcats [SPOILERS]

Posted by LiteraryBoner


# As an ongoing project, /r/movies will be posting Throwback Discussion threads weekly for the movies that came out this same weekend 25 years ago. As a reminder, Official Discussion threads are for discussing the movie and not for meta sub discussion. --- ## **Tomcats (2001)** **Summary** A group of friends make a pact to pay a large sum to the last among them to get married—but complications arise when one man tries to rig the outcome. **Director** Gregory Poirier **Writer** Gregory Poirier **Cast** * Jerry O'Connell as Michael Delaney * Shannon Elizabeth as Natalie Parker * Jake Busey as Kyle Brenner * Horatio Sanz as Steve * Bill Maher as Carlos **Rotten Tomatoes:** [14%](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/tomcats) **Metacritic:** [23](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/tomcats/critic-reviews/) **VOD / Release** Theatrical release **Trailer** [Official Trailer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFV99Kt65ts&pp=ygUPdG9tY2F0cyB0cmFpbGVy) ---
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LiteraryBoner Apr 3, 2026 +1
I just watched this movie and it really unlodged some memory minerals from my brain. I distinctly remember my dad watching this on Cable when I was a kid, specifically the scene where they say, "Don't forget, we're gonna sleep with every girl in the world!" then it cuts to a dream sequence where all these hot women of different ethnicities are lined up to have sex with Jerry O'Connel. My whole life I always remembered Charlie Sheen in this movie but it was O'Connel all along. Anyways, not a bad movie if you can get past some off color humor. There's a scene where someone bites into a cancerous inflamed male testicle in an up close shot. There's a really long gag where O'Connel tries to sleep with a sheepish librarian then she handcuffs him to the bed and becomes a d*********. There's a running joke that Horatio Sanz' wife, played by Jaime Pressley, is sleeping with their housemaid Consuela. The plot is that O'Connel owes Mob Boss Bill Maher money from trying to impress a redhead at a Vegas c***** that he tries to cash in on a long running bet him and his friends have to be the last bachelor of the group. To do this he has to help classic shallow ladies man Jake Busey fall in love, so he finds Shannon Elizabeth, a woman from Busey's past, and convinces her to marry him so they could split the money. But of course he falls in love with her and the whole movie is basically just a horndog fantasy. But I didn't hate it. 5/10 Fun cameo: during the climax Jerry O'Connel is wearing stripper clothes and he runs into a little girl at a park where a cop starts chasing him. The little girl is Dakota Fanning. Also, it's crazy that this is like the fifth raunchy sex comedy of the first three months of 2001. We really used to get like 15 of these a year lol. Now we get basically zero.
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Proper-Refuse-7291 Apr 3, 2026 +3
Man I remember catching this on cable way too many times in the early 2000s. Peak "dumb comedy that somehow gets you to watch the whole thing" energy, even though you know it's terrible. Jerry O'Connell deserved better but Jake Busey was perfectly unhinged in it.
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