The Trouble with Young Stuff (1977)

Director:

Joseph W. Sarno

Genre:

Adult

Tagline:

Willing Sexperts are Eager to Learn!

Plot:

In a southern mill town, cousin Matilda, an oversexed young lady, visits Alice and Rose. Hidden family secrets emerge in this sex packed potboiler...

Plot Keywords:

Sex | Hardcore | Lesbian Sex | Lesbian Scene | Lesbianism

Cast

Marlene Willoughby	...	Rose Volare
Nancy Dare	...	Dinah Miller
Jenny Baxter	...	Matilda Harris (as Sarah Barnes)
Sonny Landham	...	Lane the Milkman
Crystal Sync	...	Alice (as Christine Williams)
Gloria Leonard	...	Dinah's Mother
Robert Kerman	...	Norman (as Richard Bolla)
Roger Caine	...	Jack

Also Known As:

Girl Trouble (USA) (reissue title)
The Trouble with Young Chicks (USA) (bowdlerized title)
Young Stuff

Runtime:

USA:110 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:X | USA:X (self applied)

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Inside Jennifer Welles (1977)

hotsy title doesn't really match film

NY porn production, credited onscreen to the direction of Odus Hamlin, strongly resembles the work of 1960s softcore auteur Joseph W Sarno and utilizes one of his favorite plots. A closed sexual circle is infiltrated by a free spirit who stirs things up. In this case, 28-ish "teenager" Matilda arrives to spend time with her cousin (Crystal Sync). The cousin shares a house with b.f. and another couple. All are blue-collar working people, though there is just rather vague reference to the workday world. The two cousins have a sexual past, which Sync doesn't like to think about, but the barrier soon comes crashing down.

Story is interesting, though at close to 2 hours, much too long for the genre. The occasional bouts of explicit sex are mostly a little gratuitous and get in the way of the story (or maybe the story is too complex and gets in the way of the explicit sex). Some of the dialogue is tin-ear awful. The cast are all very natural-looking, like real people, and most obviously have professional acting experience.

Lead Crystal Sync is one of the most hardly-the-types you'll ever see in a porn film, a 5'9" brunette distinctly on the skinny side, non-voluptuous, non-glamorous, with cultivated vocal patterns, but she racked up numerous credits in the genre between about 1975 and 1981 and eventually scored enough cash to fix the seriously bucked teeth she had at the time of this picture. (For probably her best work, see 1981's THE TIFFANY MINX, a meaningless title which masks a really interesting and wellmade porno-suspense film.)Tech credits are somewhat primitive, and the musical score (discordant guitar riffs) is strictly a matter of taste.

Some prints of STUFF were retitled GIRL TROUBLE in the late 1980s, when any titles that smacked of underage sex were hastily doctored during the Traci Lords scandal; YOUNG STUFF has nothing to do with the story in any event. This is NOT a film for seekers of cheap porno thrills. It is quite slow, quite long, with "dry" spells that seem to last forever, and walks a very uneasy tightrope between porn grinder and slice of life art film -- eventually not quite working in either direction.

This is a commendable attempt to do something "different" within the porn genre, but it really doesn't work. The sex is realistic and not that photogenic; the discursive story would probably have been more interesting with the sex held to a softcore level and dished out in less seemingly-obligatory manner. I give this a 3.