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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
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Directed by	Mike Mitchell
Produced by	Barry Bernadi Sid Ganis
Written by	Harris Goldberg Rob Schneider
Starring	Rob Schneider Eddie Griffin Arija Bareikis
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	10 December 1999
Running time	88 min.
Country	USA
Followed by	Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo is a 1999 comedy film starring Rob Schneider. Other cast members include Eddie Griffin, Amy Poehler, Oded Fehr, Arija Bareikis, and William Forsythe.

Two of Schneider's fellow alumni from the long-running television sketch-comedy series Saturday Night Live are in the film: Norm MacDonald makes a cameo appearance, and the film's executive producer Adam Sandler provides a voiceover. Current SNL cast member Amy Poehler also has a cameo.

It was directed by Mike Mitchell.

A sequel, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, was released on August 12, 2005.

The plot is based around Deuce Bigalow, a goofball fishtank repairman and fish caretaker. One house call finds him meeting male prostitute Antoine Laconte (Oded Fehr), who ultimately requests that Deuce care for his fish and home while he's on vacation. However, while making a grilled cheese sandwich in the toaster, Deuce accidentally sets Antoine's kitchen on fire and smashes an expensive fish tank. Deuce fears for his life and is forced to find a way to pay off Antoine for the damage. A few phone calls later, T.J. Hicks (Eddie Griffin) offers to help Deuce make enough money to buy a new fish tank, but the job isn't exactly what he expects. With T.J. as his pimp, Deuce must briefly take over Antoine's role as a gigolo to make the money back. The women Deuce meets are not exactly what he's expecting; they include a woman suffering from narcolepsy, one suffering from Tourette's syndrome, one who weighs close to 750 pounds, and one who is so tall that her face is always cropped out of the frame.

Deuce, unwilling to have sex with these women, decides to make them feel better about themselves so they don't have to feel like they need prositution: the woman with Tourette's syndrome is taken to a baseball game so her insults are accepted, for example. During this time Deuce is pursued by Detective Chuck Fowler (William Forsythe), who demands Antoine's black book of clients and threatens to take Deuce to jail if he doesn't comply. Eventually Deuce falls in love with one of his clients , Kate (Arija Bareikis), who has a fake leg. She breaks up with Deuce when the she finds out he was a prostitute hired by her friends, but they reconcile once Deuce admits he loves her and gives back the money he was paid. Eventually Deuce offers his services to Detective Fowler's wife, and Deuce thus discovers that he wants to take down Antoine for sleeping with his wife: evidently his thin penis makes him a poor lover.

Deuce helps Detective Fowler please his wife via other methods like stripping and erotic dancing, and the two make peace. However, Deuce is still taken into custody on prostitution charges, as Fowler needs someone to bring in. But, after hearing the testimony of Deuce's clients, it is revealed that he never slept with any of them except for Kate, and since he gave back the money and wasn't paid for sex, he is cleared of all charges. Using the money he did make, Deuce restores Antoine's apartment, but in doing so accidentally kills the prize fish of Antoine's aquarium. Antoine returns moments afterwards, and is subsequently outraged. He attacks Deuce but is held off by an overweight client, and is then arrested by Detective Fowler.

• Rob Schneider as Deuce Bigalow
• Eddie Griffin as T.J. Hicks
• William Forsythe as Detective Chuck Fowler
• Oded Fehr as Antoine LaConte
• Arija Bareikis as Kate
• Gail O'Grady as Claire
• Big Boy as Jabba Lady/Fluisa/Naomi
• Amy Poehler as Ruth
• Bree Turner as Allyson
• Norm MacDonald as the Bartender

• Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo at the Internet Movie Database