Heartthrob
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- 1990
- 1h 29m
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Off-the-wall porn comedy
Straddling the line between porn comedy and underground movie, Henri Pachard's "Heartthrob" has a delightfully anarchic, improv quality setting it apart from Adult Videos of its day. Thirty-plus years later that gives it a freshness missing from so many thousands of its silly and just corny peers.
Story has a simple vignette structure: Rick Savage expertly plays a surly hotel front desk clerk, sort of a porno equivalent to John Cleese's iconic tv character Basil Fawlty of "Fawlty Towers". He insults and is gratuitously nasty to any and all potential customers who merely ask to book a room. Key incidence of this bad (but quite amusing) behavior is when newlywed couple Derek Lane and Racquel Darrian (that porn team who would later get married in real life) are summarily turned down for a room on their wedding night. We've just seen Rick begrudgingly give out keys to the last two available rooms, so he's correct when he tells them no vacancies, but it's the way that he turns them down that's funny.
In the briefest of cameo roles, Sharon Kane pops up to hand in her key as a sudden check-out, so Rick tells the couple they can have the room, but at $150 for the night. That doesn't sound like so much nowadays of course, but would be about $350 now, exorbitant considering Rick was running a fleabag of a hotel. So Derek turns him down even though the couple has little chance of finding a room elsewhere.
Joey, who's booked one of the two final vacancies before Kane's became available, offers $150 to Derek if he'll let him watch the bride and groom have sex, promising he'll only watch and masturbate. Derek jumps at the chance, but Racquel balks, ultimately conceding. Of course we get to see (along with Joey) the hot couple go at it, in the manager's office on a sofa, as Joey lies and tells them that's okay. After Derek's cum shot (in the air, as Racquel finishes him off with a hand-job), Joey gets very angry and storms off, claiming they have broken tradition, namely "pulling out" on their wedding night rather than conventionally consummating the marriage!
Star of the movie Samantha Strong has a solid sex scene with Joey that's inserted into the show very clumsily, taking place in a hot-tub outdoors -possibly a flashback but unrelated to the movie's setting inside a hotel. Samantha follows up by giving Savage a blow job (which he comically resists, staying in character as uppity and stubborn beyond belief).
Later, she's anxious to have sex with husband Joey but he informs her he's phoned for a prostitute instead, and Kelly Royce shows up as a tough-talking hooker who not accidentally is styled and dressed very much like wife Strong.
Resulting sex scene has Royce having sex with Silvera first, but soon Samantha joins in and the gals reject continuing on with Joey. Ultimately Royce rejects Joey and would rather masturbate. Savage catches her beating off and kicks her out of the hotel, ending the movie with his angry insistence: "No more hooking in my hotel!".
One mystery I couldn't solve satisfactorily about this oddball movie concerns Alexandria Quinn. She's listed in many sources (including IMDb) in the cast but doesn't show up in extant copies of "Heartthrob", likely because she was edited out of her 1990 porn movies when a year later it was discovered she made them illegally at age 17. That would explain the movie's short (68 minutes) surviving running time.
Story has a simple vignette structure: Rick Savage expertly plays a surly hotel front desk clerk, sort of a porno equivalent to John Cleese's iconic tv character Basil Fawlty of "Fawlty Towers". He insults and is gratuitously nasty to any and all potential customers who merely ask to book a room. Key incidence of this bad (but quite amusing) behavior is when newlywed couple Derek Lane and Racquel Darrian (that porn team who would later get married in real life) are summarily turned down for a room on their wedding night. We've just seen Rick begrudgingly give out keys to the last two available rooms, so he's correct when he tells them no vacancies, but it's the way that he turns them down that's funny.
In the briefest of cameo roles, Sharon Kane pops up to hand in her key as a sudden check-out, so Rick tells the couple they can have the room, but at $150 for the night. That doesn't sound like so much nowadays of course, but would be about $350 now, exorbitant considering Rick was running a fleabag of a hotel. So Derek turns him down even though the couple has little chance of finding a room elsewhere.
Joey, who's booked one of the two final vacancies before Kane's became available, offers $150 to Derek if he'll let him watch the bride and groom have sex, promising he'll only watch and masturbate. Derek jumps at the chance, but Racquel balks, ultimately conceding. Of course we get to see (along with Joey) the hot couple go at it, in the manager's office on a sofa, as Joey lies and tells them that's okay. After Derek's cum shot (in the air, as Racquel finishes him off with a hand-job), Joey gets very angry and storms off, claiming they have broken tradition, namely "pulling out" on their wedding night rather than conventionally consummating the marriage!
Star of the movie Samantha Strong has a solid sex scene with Joey that's inserted into the show very clumsily, taking place in a hot-tub outdoors -possibly a flashback but unrelated to the movie's setting inside a hotel. Samantha follows up by giving Savage a blow job (which he comically resists, staying in character as uppity and stubborn beyond belief).
Later, she's anxious to have sex with husband Joey but he informs her he's phoned for a prostitute instead, and Kelly Royce shows up as a tough-talking hooker who not accidentally is styled and dressed very much like wife Strong.
Resulting sex scene has Royce having sex with Silvera first, but soon Samantha joins in and the gals reject continuing on with Joey. Ultimately Royce rejects Joey and would rather masturbate. Savage catches her beating off and kicks her out of the hotel, ending the movie with his angry insistence: "No more hooking in my hotel!".
One mystery I couldn't solve satisfactorily about this oddball movie concerns Alexandria Quinn. She's listed in many sources (including IMDb) in the cast but doesn't show up in extant copies of "Heartthrob", likely because she was edited out of her 1990 porn movies when a year later it was discovered she made them illegally at age 17. That would explain the movie's short (68 minutes) surviving running time.
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- Jul 11, 2022
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