Walnut Creek (1996) User Reviews

Less skin, more plot.

[allmoviesfan · 6/10 · 11 January 2024]

Well, this was a mid-90's erotic thriller that featured less sex scenes and a more coherent plot.

A dodgy businessman just released from jail after being sent there in large part thanks to the testimony of his business partner wants revenge on said business partner, and decides to send his mentor Lorelei - a girl he saved off the streets in the film's prelude; it is strong suggested that she's a prostitute - onto Walnut Creek, the property owned by the business partner as a financial adviser.

Originally, the plan is for Lorelei - or Tonya - to gain revenge on behalf of her mentor presumably by ruining Walnut Creek, but wholly-unstable Tonya decides she has a better idea and begins taking matters into her own hands...

A better plot and acting than you normally get in these movies -yes, I know none of us watch these for the plot or acting - and a few less sex scenes.

It's all that healthy country air that does it

[augustian · 6/10 · 6 July 2017]

Ex-convict Anthony (Greg Collins) wants revenge on business partner Preston Styles (David Christensen) who he believes, put him in gaol for a crime he did not commit. To do this, he mentors prostitute Lorelei, who re-emerges as Tonya, (Kate Roger) an administrator employed to sort out the finances at the ranch, Walnut Creek. Tonya however, realises that life at Walnut Creek would be very comfortable, but there are obstacles in her way which must be removed, one way or another.

The film is well scripted and the actors, although they will not win any awards, do put some effort into the characters. The sex scenes are, to use the well-worn cliché, necessary to the plot - this is an erotic thriller after all. The girl/guy scenes are steamy, as they should be, but there are no lesbian scenes. Some fans of erotica may be disappointed in this omission, but in my opinion, those scenes in which normally heterosexual women suddenly feel the need for other womens' sexual desires look rather false. One of the scenes in this film is quite laughable; in the barn, when Seth (Alton Butler) and Lacey (Renee Weldon) are getting it on, Tonya is watching, standing only a few feet away, yet neither of the lovers see her. On the whole though, with some good production values and some hot bodies, this is fairly entertaining viewing.