Porn director and his regular screenwriter Jennifer Allison overdo the blatant proselytizing in favor of porn as free expression in this otherwise pleasant enough Wicked Pictures vehicle for endearing star Kaylani Lei.
Voicing over much of the story's exposition and point-of-view, Lei portrays a young girl in L.A. on the rebound from a failed relationship with Evan Stone, who turns out to be a sex addict typical of the internet age in his fondness for sexual chat rooms and on-line pornography.
Urged by her BFF Mindy (a nice supporting performance unfortunately not earning the actress a screen credit, as NonSex Roles here get no Wicked respect) to get back into the dating pool, Kaylani herself goes on line and not surprisingly attracts numerous potential beaus, settling upon Barrett Blade, who turns out to be a porn director.
But Kaylani keeps an open mind, despite her misgivings about the Adult Industry, and the film segues into illustrative defense of Blade's profession and life style. He hangs out almost exclusively with Industry types, shown in a poker game loaded with cameos, of whom only Fred Lincoln and Alex Sanders were immediately recognizable to me (again, no help from the skimpy on-screen credits), and even takes Kaylani to a strip club where he lays down the law with a diva of a stripper (Devon Lee, nude dancing quite impressively, but not getting any credit from Wicked brass) who won't make films with him unless she's always the star.
Lei concludes that porn people are just like "regular people" and there's nothing wrong or harmful about how they choose to make a living. Raven can't resist a cutesy ending, in which after lover Blade deposits his money shot on Lei's kisser, we hear the director (presumably Raven himself) yell "And cut!", directly repeating the Blade shout at the end of a torrid Carmel Moore/Marco Banderas sex scene he shot with Kaylani in attendance to see how it's done. The inside-out reference here to the fact that Kaylani is a porn star merely playing Little Miss Innocent is hardly subtle.
Sex scenes are arousing, and cancel out the heavy-handed message of such a trivial movie.
Voicing over much of the story's exposition and point-of-view, Lei portrays a young girl in L.A. on the rebound from a failed relationship with Evan Stone, who turns out to be a sex addict typical of the internet age in his fondness for sexual chat rooms and on-line pornography.
Urged by her BFF Mindy (a nice supporting performance unfortunately not earning the actress a screen credit, as NonSex Roles here get no Wicked respect) to get back into the dating pool, Kaylani herself goes on line and not surprisingly attracts numerous potential beaus, settling upon Barrett Blade, who turns out to be a porn director.
But Kaylani keeps an open mind, despite her misgivings about the Adult Industry, and the film segues into illustrative defense of Blade's profession and life style. He hangs out almost exclusively with Industry types, shown in a poker game loaded with cameos, of whom only Fred Lincoln and Alex Sanders were immediately recognizable to me (again, no help from the skimpy on-screen credits), and even takes Kaylani to a strip club where he lays down the law with a diva of a stripper (Devon Lee, nude dancing quite impressively, but not getting any credit from Wicked brass) who won't make films with him unless she's always the star.
Lei concludes that porn people are just like "regular people" and there's nothing wrong or harmful about how they choose to make a living. Raven can't resist a cutesy ending, in which after lover Blade deposits his money shot on Lei's kisser, we hear the director (presumably Raven himself) yell "And cut!", directly repeating the Blade shout at the end of a torrid Carmel Moore/Marco Banderas sex scene he shot with Kaylani in attendance to see how it's done. The inside-out reference here to the fact that Kaylani is a porn star merely playing Little Miss Innocent is hardly subtle.
Sex scenes are arousing, and cancel out the heavy-handed message of such a trivial movie.