Proud Parents

The team of writer David Stanley and director B. Skow teamed up for some quality Girlfriends Films boy/girl projects (like "Homecoming" and "Daddy's Girls") but this stinker helps explain why their tenure at the basically Lesbian Cinema label has ceased.

It's Stanley's infra dig look at his profession, presented in almost snickering fashion as the picture it paints is so obviously fabricated. Watching it is a bit like listening to the daily blather of President Trump, spouting words that are wholly detached from reality.

Having appeared on screen so many times before, Steven St. Croix and India Summer are comfortable in their roles as the title couple, namedropping some industry denizens (e.g., Jamie Gillis) or their fictitious first screen assignment together ("Night Sweat" in 1982). Stanley's strained gimmick is that they are being interviewed for a documentary about them and the industry, but in fact the unreliable interviewer (we hear his voice but I don't have the slightest idea whether he is Skow, or perhaps one of Skow's usual flunkies like Ralph Long) is actually shooting background for his project to debut the couple's daughter Casey Calvert in porn scenes.

We get to see how wonderful porn stars feel about their profession, the sort of fake content that makes up literally thousands of BTS short subjects in the DVD era (not sure what will become of that pointless filler in today's evolution to the Streaming Era). The conceit that the parents know nothing about their kid's plan to follow in their footsteps is combined with the corny notion that they would never let her do such a dumb thing. Stanley & Skow tack on a "20 years later" interview scene with Casey (who sloppily notes it's 10 years later, a flub left in the final print) in which she looks exactly the same and is oh so predictably certain that her grown-up daughter WON'T follow in the family business.

Scott Lyons is quite annoying (as usual) portraying a crass porn director named Jean Kreem in a very stupid scene concerning a stud hired to hump Casey who can't get it up to perform, and storms off the set under a barrage of Lyons' insults. Richie Calhoun jerks his dick for a few minutes in this uncredited cameo.

Rising star Keisha Grey is thrown in sort of portraying herself and Aiden Ashley is unconvincing in a dumb role of Casey's friend who inadvertently becomes a porn actress merely by hanging around the set. Much earlier in his career Stanley was inventive in his ideas and scripts, but his talent seems to have evaporated with maturity.