SPIN THE BOTTLEA nerd-turned-hunk (Holter Graham) invites former childhood pals for a weekend reunion in Vermont in this micro-budgeted variation on “The Big Chill.”Running time: 86 minutes. Not rated. At the Pioneer, Third Street at Avenue A.

EVEN Amy Sohn’s detractors have tired of describing her as a poor man’s version of fellow sex columnist Candace Bushnell – but the long-delayed release of “Spin the Bottle” virtually invites such comparisons.

This Sohn-written, micro-budgeted variant on “The Big Chill” was completed more than three years ago – well before Bushnell’s glossy “Sex and the City” premiered to critical acclaim on HBO – but the dialogue actually contains a disparaging reference to the star of Bushnell’s series, Sarah Jessica Parker.

Instead of Bushnell’s glamorous settings, Sohn’s little movie (more than competently directed by first-timer Jamie Yerkes) takes place entirely at a modest vacation cabin on a lake in Vermont.

A pair of needy women and an uptight lawyer in their late 20s have been invited up for the weekend – by an ex-friend none of them has seen or even heard from since the eighth grade.

Jonah (the magnetic Holter Graham), the host, has developed from a nerd into a hunk with a beard and a pierced nose.

His physical attributes are endlessly remarked on by the sex-obsessed Alex (Jessica Faller) and the romantically depressed Rachel (Heather Goldenhersh) – not to mention Bev (Kim Winter), who’s newly engaged to the very nervous lawyer Ted (Mitchell Riggs).

When the charming Jonah entices the drunken gathering into a game of spin-the-bottle (and musical beds), it’s not exactly surprising that he has scores to settle – and his principal prey isn’t any of the women.

It’s poor Ted, a portion of whose anatomy is described by one of the women as “flat and boring – like his personality.”

“Spin the Bottle” has some good lines and engaging performances, but ultimately it’s as shallow as its characters. “Sex and the Country” it isn’t.