"The Moguls" presents porn as the new, um, feel-good factor  just another all-American entrepreneurial venture, sparking small-town camaraderie and midlife redemption. Not even a committed toplining turn by Jeff Bridges, in scruffy-dude mode, or the ensemble support of talented character actors can find much of a comic pulse in the material. In his directorial debut, Traeger (who scripted "Dead Man on Campus") collects a handful of mildly wacky residents of white-picket-fence Butterface Fields.

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