Cash Markman is credited with the awful screenplay for this Vivid feature from its Wave subsidiary. It's surprisingly poor within the ouevre of director Toni English -aka Kelly Holland.
Material suggests Louis Malle's classic "Pretty Baby", but that controversial movie had a powerful atmospheric setting in Storyville, Louisiana, now 100 years in the past. Here we have a set of Adult movie cliches set in a random brothel of the past, with Dee Gordon at the piano narrating the nonstory.
Vivid contract Girl Dyanna Lauren stars as a prostitute in love with customer Colt Steele, and her beauty helps immensely, while Colt is his usual handsome but empty self, unable to recite dialog with conviction, and lame as a sex performer too. Subplots setting up the other sex scenes are dumb: Marc Wallice and Nick East as a pair of sailors who get their bell ropes pulled (to quote "The Wild Bunch" dialog) by the ladies there, as well as a poorly performed scene of Asia Carrera helping big shot Steven St. Croix's wife Anna Malle have an orgasm (in their threesome together).
Presiding over this is future Vivid director Chi Chi LaRue in drag as the brothel Madam, again delivering sentimentality. In that vein I actually enjoyed a potentially soggy time out from the sex for Dyanna Lauren to sing a ballad accompanied by Gordon at the piano, recorded direct-sound and with DL doing a fine job singing.
Credits include Brad Armstrong, who doesn't show up in the movie, but omit Felecia and Tricia Yen, who briefly appear as fellow prostitutes working for Chi Chi.
