In 1995, everyone had a VCR, music was actually sold in record stores and the world wide web was a new fangled invention. Entrepreneur Jack Harris had the perfect life - a beautiful family and a successful business fixing problem companies. Then he met Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby, two geniuses, but troubled men, who had invented the way adult entertainment is sold over the internet. When Harris agrees to help steer their business, he finds himself in a world of sex and crime all while becoming one of the wealthiest businessmen of his time. Dallas’ own Luke Wilson plays Harris and he talked about the movie and what he found most enjoyable about making this movie.

Tell us a little about the movie.
The story Middle Men [is about] my character Jack Harris who is an entrepreneur. The movie starts with him hearing about these two guys Buck and Wayne. They get the model for how to charge people to look at content on their home computers and everyone who wants to look at pornography has to go through this program and these guys came up with it. They were kind of like idiot savants. They really changed the course of history.

And your character goes into business with them to basically guide them along, but winds up getting sucked in deeper than he’d intended to?
You know, he’s a family man with a couple of kids, and then he just gets into this business which kind of takes off. At the same time, because it is in this completely different world that has a sordid aspect to it, he kind of gets pulled into it a little bit and loses his way and winds up getting involved with the Russian mob and the FBI and starts a romance with one of the girls that works on one of these websites; so, a lot happens to him just from his business.

Tell me about your co-stars in the film?
Buck Dolby and Wayne Beering are played by Giovanni Ribisi and Gabriel Macht and for me that’s one of my favorite parts of the movie just because they bring a great balance of comedy and drama at the same time. Those guys are both really great actors. For me to work with people my own age that I also admire is interesting because I always look to older actors, but both those guys are so good.

Why should people go see this movie?
It’s a really fun wild ride and in the movie you get to sit there and be entertained but you also get to learn a lot about this world that you don’t really know anything about.

Middle Men opens nationwide this week. The film is rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, drug use, language and violence. For all of this week’s new releases and more of your favorite celebs, check out my show Reel Critics on Time Warner Video on Demand under the North Texas programming tab!