Netflix is already celebrating XXX-Mas with the romantic comedy The Merry Gentlemen. And it’s proven to be successful, because… seasonal stripper saga prevails in the streaming service’s charts against titles such as the actioner John Wick, the horror film Tarot or the animated adventure Spellbound – and is currently at number 1.
Christmas film The Merry Gentlemen on Netflix: That’s what it’s about
In The Merry Gentlemen from director Peter Sullivan and screenwriter Marla Sokoloff, Broadway dancer Ashley (Britt Robertson) returns to her hometown just before Christmas. When she learns that her parents (Beth Broderick and Michael Gross) are about to lose their performance theater called The Rhythm Room due to financial difficulties, she quickly hatches a lucrative plan.
Ashley is putting together a male stripper revue called The Merry Gentlemen and has already set her sights on the perfect guys for it: local carpenter Luke (Chad Michael Murray), her brother-in-law Rodger (Marc Anthony Samuel) and bartender Troy (Colt Prattes). ). Of course, it doesn’t take long before things start to crackle between the dancer from New York and one of the small town men.
Although the film only has a review average of 55 out of 100 on Metacritic and was only rated 4.3 by the Moviepilot community, The Merry Gentlemen is currently in 28 countries ranked first in the Netflix movie charts (according to Flixpatrol). In the past few days there have been almost 40 countries.
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A look at Netflix’s series charts reveals something also more or less Christmassy: The Empress. As in the film series with Romy Schneider, which is often repeated at Christmas, it is about the Austrian monarch Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary.