Writer-director Nica Noelle continues to make breakthroughs in Adult Cinema, with this unusual feature, combining old-fashioned romance with thematic ideas and barrier-surmounting mixing of genres.
In recent years she directed over a hundred Gay porn movies, with male casts, unprecedented for a female director. (Prior to that she had made her mark as both actress and auteur of lesbian features, more traditionally "women's work", to use that archaic phrase.)
Here she dares to knit together in a cohesive and convincing narrative equal helpings of both boy/boy and boy/girl explicit sex (and romantic at that), heretofore unthinkable given the rigid demarcation between marketing to specific audiences. It is noteworthy that she also made great strides in taking transsexual performers out of a stereotyped niche to become mainstream sex workers on screen.
Fifty-something actress Andi James stars as a housewife and breadwinner, who has an important job in publishing, while her husband Marcus London is suffering through a midlife crisis. Lately he's been going to auditions for acting (mainly in advertising projects), but being turned down as "too old" for the father roles. Though his wife solidly backs him, he's losing confidence.
We see them make love in a naturalistic Nica style of XXX scene, using a condom and specifically omitting any cum shot.
These parents support their Gay son Brandon Wilde (fine casting of a very popular actor who Nica often starred in her Gay movies), who has taken up with a formerly "straight" boyfriend recently, after liaisons with fellow gays. He's encouraged to bring the boy (Dante Colle, a current go-to actor in all sorts of porn contexts) to spend the summer at their New Hampshire home.
Nica juggles the key subplots and relationships with ease, namely Marcus and Andi's loving marriage, Brandon and Dante's hot and unprotected sex together, Brandon relapsing and having (off-camera) sex with a Gay ex, and ultimately at the movie's climax: Andi's romance with young Dante (with a condom once again utilized). I especially liked the bittersweet imagery and subtle acting of the show's ending.
Andi is quite impressive in an unglamorized central role, not fetishized as a GILF nor given fake-looking attributes. And Nica is never condescending to Gay performers or characters, treating them and their foibles sympathetically.
It's a quiet, simple sort of movie, but therein lies its strength, especially contrasted with such a plethora of in-your-face gonzo porn videos dominating the marketplace.
In recent years she directed over a hundred Gay porn movies, with male casts, unprecedented for a female director. (Prior to that she had made her mark as both actress and auteur of lesbian features, more traditionally "women's work", to use that archaic phrase.)
Here she dares to knit together in a cohesive and convincing narrative equal helpings of both boy/boy and boy/girl explicit sex (and romantic at that), heretofore unthinkable given the rigid demarcation between marketing to specific audiences. It is noteworthy that she also made great strides in taking transsexual performers out of a stereotyped niche to become mainstream sex workers on screen.
Fifty-something actress Andi James stars as a housewife and breadwinner, who has an important job in publishing, while her husband Marcus London is suffering through a midlife crisis. Lately he's been going to auditions for acting (mainly in advertising projects), but being turned down as "too old" for the father roles. Though his wife solidly backs him, he's losing confidence.
We see them make love in a naturalistic Nica style of XXX scene, using a condom and specifically omitting any cum shot.
These parents support their Gay son Brandon Wilde (fine casting of a very popular actor who Nica often starred in her Gay movies), who has taken up with a formerly "straight" boyfriend recently, after liaisons with fellow gays. He's encouraged to bring the boy (Dante Colle, a current go-to actor in all sorts of porn contexts) to spend the summer at their New Hampshire home.
Nica juggles the key subplots and relationships with ease, namely Marcus and Andi's loving marriage, Brandon and Dante's hot and unprotected sex together, Brandon relapsing and having (off-camera) sex with a Gay ex, and ultimately at the movie's climax: Andi's romance with young Dante (with a condom once again utilized). I especially liked the bittersweet imagery and subtle acting of the show's ending.
Andi is quite impressive in an unglamorized central role, not fetishized as a GILF nor given fake-looking attributes. And Nica is never condescending to Gay performers or characters, treating them and their foibles sympathetically.
It's a quiet, simple sort of movie, but therein lies its strength, especially contrasted with such a plethora of in-your-face gonzo porn videos dominating the marketplace.