Jim Enright teams up with talented screenwriter Melissa Monet for the aptly named Wicked feature "True Love", part of the Turn of This Century genre of Couples Romances that truly stand the test of time, up against today's mindless & dominant wall-to-wall sex trend. It's worth noting that it was produced by Shanna McCullough, the great actress who like Candida Royalle for whom she worked was important in that romantic movement.
The star-crossed lovers in question are shy, low-self-esteem Steven St. Croix and his beautiful pal Ava Vincent, caught in the usual rom-com quandary of "she thinks of me as a friend, not a possible lover". This material gets a fresh treatment by Monet, and is likely to grab any Adult Cinema fan who still stands by story-line content as the Gold Standard.
Ava is involved with a bad boy (natch), well-limned by Randy Spears who stays in character as a detestable, egotistical so-and-so throughout the show. I was amused in the DVD menu material to see him listed for over 40 Wicked releases and this is back in 2002, showing how often (must be in the hundreds by now) the label turned to him to support their contract ladies.
Helping the video to hold up 15 years later is casting that avoids the superstar front-loading so common back then. All five women in the cast are striking and beautiful and hot in their sex scenes, notably Amber Michaels, the legendary fetish model, providing effortless anal-sex in her supporting role as a "mercy date" Ava fixes up for despondent Steven, but which he bungles, feeling "not worthy", so she settles for humping restaurateur Frank Fortuna instead.
He's down in the dumps because his beautiful paramour Buffy Sinclair has dumped him for no good reason. Ava ends up with him because randy Randy insists on two-timing her and lying about it with the beauteous Felix Vicious, introduced topless sunbathing in a stylish scene typical of director Jim Enright's attention to detail.
St. Croix and Vincent make their acting seem effortless, and with solid material demonstrate once again the superiority, nay, the necessity of creating characters and situations that make XXX sex content meaningful and not merely generic.
The star-crossed lovers in question are shy, low-self-esteem Steven St. Croix and his beautiful pal Ava Vincent, caught in the usual rom-com quandary of "she thinks of me as a friend, not a possible lover". This material gets a fresh treatment by Monet, and is likely to grab any Adult Cinema fan who still stands by story-line content as the Gold Standard.
Ava is involved with a bad boy (natch), well-limned by Randy Spears who stays in character as a detestable, egotistical so-and-so throughout the show. I was amused in the DVD menu material to see him listed for over 40 Wicked releases and this is back in 2002, showing how often (must be in the hundreds by now) the label turned to him to support their contract ladies.
Helping the video to hold up 15 years later is casting that avoids the superstar front-loading so common back then. All five women in the cast are striking and beautiful and hot in their sex scenes, notably Amber Michaels, the legendary fetish model, providing effortless anal-sex in her supporting role as a "mercy date" Ava fixes up for despondent Steven, but which he bungles, feeling "not worthy", so she settles for humping restaurateur Frank Fortuna instead.
He's down in the dumps because his beautiful paramour Buffy Sinclair has dumped him for no good reason. Ava ends up with him because randy Randy insists on two-timing her and lying about it with the beauteous Felix Vicious, introduced topless sunbathing in a stylish scene typical of director Jim Enright's attention to detail.
St. Croix and Vincent make their acting seem effortless, and with solid material demonstrate once again the superiority, nay, the necessity of creating characters and situations that make XXX sex content meaningful and not merely generic.