If you think you've seen it all, go rent Two Moon Junction. I can pretty much guarantee that seeing Burl Ives in this piece of crap softcore erotica will be unlike anything you've seen pop up in a film before. Unfortunately, Ives neither gets naked nor sings "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" in this movie, which would have made it a "must see" for bizarre cinema. Instead you have to settle for seeing Sherilyn Fenn naked, a guy who could be Fabio Jr. suffering from what has to be premature ejaculation and a topless Kristy McNichol giving the best performance in the whole thing.
April (Sherilyn Fenn) is an Alabama rich girl fresh out of college and soon to marry her rich, preppy fiancée Chad (Martin Hewitt). After masturbating in the shower while seemingly re-enacting a scene out of Porky's, April takes her sisters to a nearby traveling carnival. There, April comes to the sexual attention of shirtless carny Perry (Richard Tyson), who spends most of the movie alternating between jerk and a slab of beef. They have sex, which Perry videotapes with the camera that belongs to April's family. When Perry gets himself thrown out of the carnival after a scene that could have been lifted out of an old episode of The A Team or Matt Houston, April, Perry and a hyper cowgirl named Patty Jean (Kristy McNichol) hang out for a while.
After some Sapphic undertones between the two women, Patty Jean just leaves for no particular reason and we get another sex scene with April and Perry. Then April's grandmother Belle (Louise Fletcher) has the sheriff (Burl Ives) run Perry out of town. Perry comes back, however, and even though he's a penniless drifter who lives in a semi and is a foul-tempered drunk, asks April to run away with him. Well, he doesn't really ask her, but I think we're supposed to assume that's what he wants.
Does April run away with Perry? Does she marry her completely inoffensive fiancée? Why does Perry's dead dog get a viking funeral pyre? How could any woman go through as many different hairstyles as April in just two weeks? If you're anxious to find out the answer to these or any other possible questions about Two Moon Junction, you really need to get a hobby or a prescription for muscle relaxants.
This movie has a lot of Sherilyn Fenn in the buff along with the aforementioned topless Kristy McNichol and the oddity of seeing Burl Ives in a softcore erotica flick. If any of that intrigues you, and you can get it at a discount price, go ahead a rent Two Moon Junction. If you want anything at all more than that, forget about it.
The sex scenes in this movie are short, unmemorable and finally conclude with the camera spending an uncomfortably long time fixated on a nude and crying Fenn. McNichol's Patty Jean is the only interesting character in the entire story and none of them behave in a remotely believable or human way. The film doesn't even try and come up with a reason why April would screw around with this Fabio-like carny and it ends with a hilariously melodramatic action scene and a romp in a shower that makes you question if even these filmmakers thought there was a point to this story.
Two Moon Junction was largely writer/director Zalman King's big break. He went on from this to become the king of late night cable erotica with Red Shoes Diaries. I think his time and "talent" would have been better spent sacking groceries at Hy-Vee.
April (Sherilyn Fenn) is an Alabama rich girl fresh out of college and soon to marry her rich, preppy fiancée Chad (Martin Hewitt). After masturbating in the shower while seemingly re-enacting a scene out of Porky's, April takes her sisters to a nearby traveling carnival. There, April comes to the sexual attention of shirtless carny Perry (Richard Tyson), who spends most of the movie alternating between jerk and a slab of beef. They have sex, which Perry videotapes with the camera that belongs to April's family. When Perry gets himself thrown out of the carnival after a scene that could have been lifted out of an old episode of The A Team or Matt Houston, April, Perry and a hyper cowgirl named Patty Jean (Kristy McNichol) hang out for a while.
After some Sapphic undertones between the two women, Patty Jean just leaves for no particular reason and we get another sex scene with April and Perry. Then April's grandmother Belle (Louise Fletcher) has the sheriff (Burl Ives) run Perry out of town. Perry comes back, however, and even though he's a penniless drifter who lives in a semi and is a foul-tempered drunk, asks April to run away with him. Well, he doesn't really ask her, but I think we're supposed to assume that's what he wants.
Does April run away with Perry? Does she marry her completely inoffensive fiancée? Why does Perry's dead dog get a viking funeral pyre? How could any woman go through as many different hairstyles as April in just two weeks? If you're anxious to find out the answer to these or any other possible questions about Two Moon Junction, you really need to get a hobby or a prescription for muscle relaxants.
This movie has a lot of Sherilyn Fenn in the buff along with the aforementioned topless Kristy McNichol and the oddity of seeing Burl Ives in a softcore erotica flick. If any of that intrigues you, and you can get it at a discount price, go ahead a rent Two Moon Junction. If you want anything at all more than that, forget about it.
The sex scenes in this movie are short, unmemorable and finally conclude with the camera spending an uncomfortably long time fixated on a nude and crying Fenn. McNichol's Patty Jean is the only interesting character in the entire story and none of them behave in a remotely believable or human way. The film doesn't even try and come up with a reason why April would screw around with this Fabio-like carny and it ends with a hilariously melodramatic action scene and a romp in a shower that makes you question if even these filmmakers thought there was a point to this story.
Two Moon Junction was largely writer/director Zalman King's big break. He went on from this to become the king of late night cable erotica with Red Shoes Diaries. I think his time and "talent" would have been better spent sacking groceries at Hy-Vee.