A week in the life of a Soho pimp - Woody (Robert Cavanah) as seen through the lens of a documentary camera team: A week which spirals brutally out of control when the Chinese up their muscle [clarification needed] on Woody's boss's territory, a girl goes missing, and a snuff webcast appears, showing a former employee being murdered, with another potential webcast impending.
In a parallel story, aspiring young rent-boy Stanley (Danny Dyer) discovers that life in the sex-trade is tougher than he though it would be when he is sold to sinister businessman Zeb (Martin Compston).
Pimp has been panned by critics. It holds a rare 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 13 reviews, with an average score of 2.2 out of 10.[2]Mark Kermode gave the film a scathing review, noting that "staggeringly, Danny Dyer is miscast" as a mob boss and said that his performance would be "funny if it wasn't so pathetic and tragic."[3] Cath Clarke in The Guardian described Pimp as "snoringly predictable...With nil insight – into the sex industry or anything else – you might conclude Pimp is a film for men who get their kicks watching Dyer strut around leering at topless women who – in the parlance of the film – look like "the basic pleasure model".[4] Ellen E. Jones in Total Film stated : "You wouldn't think a film could actually be both very boring and very offensive. Pimp is that paradox made flesh."[5]
British film historian I.Q. Hunter, discussing the question "What is the worst British film ever made?", listed Pimp as one of the candidates for that title.[6]
Box office
The film only grossed £205[1] and was pulled from cinemas after only one screening on its opening day.
Home media
The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 24 May 2010,[7][8] just four days after it was released in cinemas.
^Jones, Ellen E. (14 May 2010). "Pimp". Total Film. Retrieved 28 January 2014.
^Hunter, I. Q. (2012). "From Window Cleaner to Potato Man". In Hunter, I. Q.; Porter, Laraine (eds.). British Comedy Cinema. Routledge. p. 154. ISBN978-0415666671.
^"Pimp (DVD)". Amazon. 24 May 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2016.
