The strongest element of "54" is its star Ryan Phillippe, whose character, Shane O'Shea, sporadically narrates the movie. An ambitious 19-year-old nobody from Jersey City, Shane drives into Manhattan one night with a bunch of friends and finds himself the only member of his party selected for entrance into the magic kingdom presided over by the club's gay social director, Steve Rubell (Mike Meyers). But before being allowed in, Shane is told he must take off his shirt. He obliges happily and displays what one admiring woman who later takes him to bed describes as the body of Michelangelo's "David" attached to a Botticelli face.