Except for the presence of a young Jamie Gillis, LIKE MOTHER...LIKE DAUGHTER features a cast of (permanent) unknowns enthusiastically performing in a dramedy about incest. Like other films from the early years of hardcore features it has an antique fascination and is definitely a diverting time-killer.
Filmmaker Ernest Danna graduated to an all-star NYC porn movie DEVIL'S DUE, but this earlier effort is more entertaining. It basically revolves around a custody battle between divorced dad Bruce (constantly hissable performance by Ralph Carl) and his buxom ex-wife Wanda (Leila Harris, quite credible in the role, bad wig and all). Bruce has returned home after many years in Japan and lays down the law to Wanda that because of her free-love ways and reputation he will take the daughter he hasn't seen since she was an infant with him for keeps.
Daughter Tricia (lovely Kecia Kane who of course looks far older than the teen she's portraying should) has in fact inherited per the title her mom's attitudes towards sex. With her BFF Pam (Nancy Franklin) she spies on everybody and is clever enough (and underhanded too) to turn the tables on daddy to yield the promised incest content. Later in an orgy scene she beds down with mommy for good measure.
Danna's femme cast sport large natural breasts and heavy bush that is instant nostalgia recalling a bygone age in porn. The acting is very good, while the sex is down and dirty -just what the fans ordered. Of special interest is an original jazz score credited to Andrew Burns (everyone uses a pseudonym, including Gillis) that enhances both the sex scenes and the dramatic ones.
Filmmaker Ernest Danna graduated to an all-star NYC porn movie DEVIL'S DUE, but this earlier effort is more entertaining. It basically revolves around a custody battle between divorced dad Bruce (constantly hissable performance by Ralph Carl) and his buxom ex-wife Wanda (Leila Harris, quite credible in the role, bad wig and all). Bruce has returned home after many years in Japan and lays down the law to Wanda that because of her free-love ways and reputation he will take the daughter he hasn't seen since she was an infant with him for keeps.
Daughter Tricia (lovely Kecia Kane who of course looks far older than the teen she's portraying should) has in fact inherited per the title her mom's attitudes towards sex. With her BFF Pam (Nancy Franklin) she spies on everybody and is clever enough (and underhanded too) to turn the tables on daddy to yield the promised incest content. Later in an orgy scene she beds down with mommy for good measure.
Danna's femme cast sport large natural breasts and heavy bush that is instant nostalgia recalling a bygone age in porn. The acting is very good, while the sex is down and dirty -just what the fans ordered. Of special interest is an original jazz score credited to Andrew Burns (everyone uses a pseudonym, including Gillis) that enhances both the sex scenes and the dramatic ones.