Meet Monica Velour

{{Infobox film

| name = Meet Monica Velour

| image = Meet Monica Velour.jpg

| director = Keith Bearden

| producer =

| writer = Keith Bearden

| starring = Kim Cattrall
Dustin Ingram

| music = Andrew Hollander

| cinematography = Masanobu Takayanagi

| editing = Naomi Geraghty

| distributor = Anchor Bay Films

| released = {{Film date|2010|04||Tribeca}}

| runtime = 98 min.

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

}}

Meet Monica Velour is a 2010 American independent comedy-drama film written and directed by Keith Bearden.{{cite news|last=Owen Gleiberman|title=Movie Review: Meet Monica Velour|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20482439,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110418060545/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20482439,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2011|accessdate=4 June 2012|newspaper=Entertainment Weekly|date=April 19, 2011}}{{cite news|last=Tom Long|title=Review: Cattrall is bright spot in so-so 'Monica Velour'|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20110415/ENT02/104150336#ixzz1wpZBEjxQ|accessdate=4 June 2012|newspaper=The Detroit News|date=April 15, 2011|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130121093828/http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20110415/ENT02/104150336%23ixzz1wpZBEjxQ|archivedate=21 January 2013}}

The film premiered at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.{{cite news|last=Daniel Hubschman |title=Exclusive Interviews With The Director & Star Of 'Meet Monica Velour' |url=http://www.hollywood.com/news/Exclusive_Interviews_With_The_Director_Star_Of_Meet_Monica_Velour/7781799 |accessdate=4 June 2012 |newspaper=Hollywood.com |date=April 7, 2011 |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130125092602/http://www.hollywood.com/news/Exclusive_Interviews_With_The_Director_Star_Of_Meet_Monica_Velour/7781799 |archivedate=25 January 2013 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|last=Frank Scheck|title=Meet Monica Velour: Film Review|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/meet-monica-velour-film-review-29542|accessdate=4 June 2012|newspaper=The Hollywood Review|date=October 15, 2010}}

Plot summary

A young man meets his dream woman (and isn't the least rather troubled that she's a washed-up porn actress 30 years his senior) in this independent coming-of-age comedy. Tobe Hulbert (Dustin Ingram) is a 17-year-old high school graduate who is the working definition of a loser—he's nerdy and socially inept, he lives with his eccentric grandfather (Brian Dennehy), his closest friend, Kenny (Daniel Yelsky), is only 12 years old, and he drives a beat-up hot-dog wagon with a giant frankfurter bolted to the roof. Among his other obsessions, Tobe is fascinated with adult movies of the 1970s and 1980s, and his favorite actress is Monica Velour (Kim Cattrall), who in her heyday was the hottest star in porn. When Tobe discovers there's a collector living in Indiana (Keith David) who is willing to buy his wagon for a good price and Monica Velour will be appearing at a gentleman's club nearby, he decides fate is smiling on him and hits the road. However, the "gentleman's club" turns out to be a sleazy dive and time hasn't been kind to Monica; when several patrons begin shouting insults at her, Tobe defends her honor and gets beat up for his trouble. Monica gratefully befriends Tobe and lets him stay at the trailer park she calls home; he begins to imagine he might have a chance with the woman of his dreams, but while she sees Tobe as a kindred spirit, she has bigger things to deal with, including a career that's going nowhere, an ugly relationship with her ex-husband, and a contentious battle to win back custody of her daughter.