‘You screw a few hundred guys, and the world turns against you,” says Kim Cattrall’s character in this low-key comedy about a washed-up porn actress and a virginal geek. You could imagine her most famous creation, Samantha Jones, uttering this quip, but no, here she’s the once-famous star of “Saturday Night Beaver.”
Monica Velour can’t even get a job as a waitress after she’s bounced from a gig at a low-rent strip club. She lives in a trailer and is being bullied by her ex, the father of their daughter.
But this boozy, blowsy survivor is idolized and helped by 17-year-old Tobe (Dustin Ingram, channeling “Napoleon Dynamite” with mixed results), who’s traveled across the country in the family hot-dog truck in hopes he’ll get lucky.
Cattrall, who gained weight for a role in which she looks every one of her 50-something years, makes “Meet Monica Velour” more involving than it sounds. Writer-director Keith Bearden was also smart enough to round up a couple of other old pros: Brian Dennehy, as the hero’s eccentric grandfather, and Keith David, as a wise collector of pop-culture artifacts.