An attractive but conservative mid-30's housewife stays at the house of her sexually open daughter and soon becomes involved in her daughter's swinger lifestyle.
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Pete
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Carol (Rebecca Brooke) is a young happily married New Yorker, who enjoys being part of a swinging foursome with her husband and a befriended couple. One day Carol's widowed mother (Jennifer Welles) comes to stay in their house, but she is more on the conservative side and doesn't know about her partner-swapping daughter. Could she ever open up to this sexually open lifestyle? Written by Perception_de_Ambiguity
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swinging | sex | sexual desire | dysfunctional marriage | cheating wife |Taglines:
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3 December 1975 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Confession of an American Housewife See more »Box Office
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Jennifer Robinson: So, I'll enjoy it while it lasts. Nothing is permanent, baby, nothing.
Pete: But why? Why you leaving with this guy?
Anna: You're wanted here very much.
Jennifer Robinson: You all want me.
[kisses Carole goodbye]
Jennifer Robinson: But, he needs me.
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Carole: Mama, you're much older than he is!Jennifer Robinson: So, I'll enjoy it while it lasts. Nothing is permanent, baby, nothing.
Pete: But why? Why you leaving with this guy?
Anna: You're wanted here very much.
Jennifer Robinson: You all want me.
[kisses Carole goodbye]
Jennifer Robinson: But, he needs me.
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Taken less seriously and not looking at the plot as a whole it is almost understandable if it gets dismissed as primarily a soft porno hiding in the cloak of a melodrama, since the individual scenes are structured like cliché set-ups for porn scenes.
But WOAH! This turned out to be so much more captivating and thoughtfully put together than the first minutes and the sleazy 70's porno look suggested. The plot develops naturally and builds-up to reveal what turns out to be the movie's main theme. What begins as a movie about a conservative, middle-aged mom opening up to new sexual experiences through the initiative of her daughter ends up as a movie about a mother/daughter relationship with unspoken sexual tensions.
And there is something to be said about how certain colors stick out on that sleazy 70's porno footage which can work artistic wonders on dames wearing colorful makeup typical of that decade as can be witnessed in 'Confessions of a Young American Housewife'...
I'm giving this 8 out of 10 young housewives getting upstaged among her swinger friends by her still juicy mother who everyone wants to feel up and who has the desire to be felt up but is too uptight (for now)