Two Moon Junction (1988)

Director:

Zalman King

Writers:

Zalman King (story) &
MacGregor Douglas (story) ...

Release Date:

29 April 1988 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Uncontrollable Passion. Undeniable Heat.

Plot:

A young Southern débutante temporarily abandons her posh lifestyle and upcoming, semi-arranged marriage to have a lustful and erotic fling with a rugged drifter who works at a local carnival.

Plot Keywords:

Carnival | Marriage | Erotic | Grandmother | Senator

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Sherilyn Fenn	...	April
Richard Tyson	...	Perry
Louise Fletcher	...	Belle
Burl Ives	...	Sheriff Earl Hawkins
Kristy McNichol	...	Patti Jean
Martin Hewitt	...	Chad
Juanita Moore	...	Delilah
Don Galloway	...	Senator Delongpre
Millie Perkins	...	Mrs. Delongpre
Milla Jovovich	...	Samantha (as Milla)
Nicole Rosselle	...	Jody
Kerry Remsen	...	Carolee
Hervé Villechaize	...	Smiley (as Herve Villechaize)
Dabbs Greer	...	Kyle
Chris Pedersen	...	Speed (as Chris Pederson)

Runtime:

104 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Canada:R (Canadian Home Video rating) | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Netherlands:16 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Company:

DDM Film Corporation

Trivia:

The final film of Hervé Villechaize.

Goofs:

Continuity: At the end of the movie, when April is in Perry's shower, we see her left hand without any jewelry. In a subsequent close-up of the same hand, there's an engagement ring and wedding band.

Quotes:

Belle Delongpre: The Delongpre family can claim three governors, two United States senators, three electives of the House of Representatives, a Supreme Court justice, and an ambassador to Chile. And at our table we've had the likes of General Patton, Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, the actress Tallulah Bankhead, and Truman Capote... and that film star Grace Kelly before she married her prince... and Betty Ford after her rehabilitation.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Benchwarmers (2006)

Soundtrack:

You Are So Beautiful

The two moons certainly were conjoined quite a lot

The hardest part of making a soft-focus soft-porn sex film must be finding two attractive leads (or three, if that's your thing) to screw-screw-fight-resolve-screw for the cameras. Having done that, the plot and dialogue is largely incidental; the characters become the scenery, the sex becomes the language, the story ... well, there just isn't one. Zalman King surely did find two fine looking leads, and they certainly did look good on screen (sexual chemistry and all that). Richard Tyson had his shirt off at every turn, and had the chest to do so, while Sherilyn Fenn was all legs, curves, beauty spots and peroxide. And when they had pseudo-sex, it looked relatively passionate and realistic. All very nice and going to plan so far.

Now, the cliche-ridden story. April (Fenn) is a Southern beauty, the pride of her family, bearer of the Dixie-whistling eggs that will carry on the family name; she's a carbon-copy of her grandmother (Fletcher) who's a cross between Mae West and Dixie Carter. April's also engaged to a handsome but ultimately boring young man with terrific prospects; the marriage therefore represents a union of great Southern families and cannot be jeopardized. But April feels (shock, horror) frustrated, cornered, in need of sexual experimentation ... and when muscle-bound carny Perry (Tyson) turns up, she's easy pickings. Another hauling-out of that age-old social question: why do nice young girls shun nice young boys, and pursue muscle-bound beefcake that's long on testosterone, but short on brains and money. Ho hum.

Despite all this, Two Moon Junction isn't a psychological drama, it's an excuse for sex - so there's sex, more sex, falling-out sex and making-up sex. Aside from making some fun of the folks down south, the plot does nothing else but justify the four or five sex scenes and pad out the screen time between them. For its genre, it does all this moderately well, though it's strictly 'thinking caps off'.