La otra mujer

Lea-Ann Beaman is excellent as the prudish star caught up in a web of intrigue when she discovers evidence of her husbands infidelity whilst he is on a business trip. She goes to meet his mistress and becomes embroiled herself.

A good example of its genre and Ms Beaman's tanlines are to die for!

My review was written in October 1992 after watching the movie on Imperial Entertainment video cassette.

Boasting a nifty twist on the old triangle theme, "The Other Woman" is a highly erotic video feature from the director of "Night Eyes". It's also the first of the current erotic thriller genre to feature a black actress in a leading role, with good results.

Film is probably the best feature yet from Axis, an outfit that has made half a doznen stimulating undressed suspenders and romancers beginning with "Carnal Crimes". Combo of semi-name casts, plenty of sex and attractive lensing makes hese a staple for pay-TV and video.

Severe in mien blonde Lee Anne Beaman toplines as a hard-hitting investigative newspaper reporter working on a case exposing powerful businessman/power broker Sam Jones.

She becomes distracted from her job when it seems that her psychologist/auhor husband Adrian Zmed is guilty of adultery. While he's away on a book tour, she tracks down black call girl/model Jenna Persaud to confront her as the mistress.

Excellent twist in Georges des Esseintes' modern script has the guilt reversed when Beaman discovers that Persaud is merely an innocent fan of her husband's, not his lover. Next twist is far-fetched but effective within the genre. Beaman falls in love with Persaud and latter becomes "the other woman" not in adultery but rather a lesbian affair.

Jones' violent methods and some double-dealing on Persaud's part bring the film back into thriller territory. Final twists are clever.

Director Jag Mundhra maximizes the opportunities for sex in this format, with both leading ladies proving to be uninhibited and alluring. Persaud, a topless dancer from the Canadian circuit recently showcased in Penthouse Video's "The Great Pet Hunt Part I", is quite sympathetic, while Beaman is forceful in the central role.

Using what's billed as a "probe lens" by Innovision Optics, Mundhra at crucial moments presents wide-angle distorted extreme closeups during the softcore sex scenes which are quite effective. Gaudy costumes by Ricardo and Lothar Delgado and other tech credits are above average.

Readers of Penthouse magazine will remember that Jenna Persaud, a dark beauty, brought a welcome splash of color to that magazine's pages in several layouts some years ago. Then she starred in this nifty and unpretentious little erotic thriller which showcases her potent sexiness as well as that of her co-star Lee Anne Beaman. This gem succeeds where many more recent flicks of this type have failed in that the director never forgets his fundamental mission. The scene where the two female leads get together is artfully shot and among the best of its kind in the genre.

The Other Woman is an erotic thriller about a journalist who assumes that her husband is having an affair. Jessica's husband is an author who leaves to do a book tour. His dry cleaning is dropped off and along with the clothing, is some change and a few photographs. Jessica is determined to find out about this other woman.

Sexually repressed, Jessica finds herself in a whole new world. Her new friend opens up doors that Jessica was afraid of. One of the issues in her marriage was a lack on intimacy with her husband, so the other woman expands Jessica's horizons. Is it real or all a set up? Intimate photos and videos of Jessica find their way to her employer.

The Other Woman is pretty steamy! I mostly watched this as a fan of Adrian Zimed (Bachelor Party). As far as these types of movies go, it's not bad.

...then one will be alright with it.

Actually,having said that,I don't think I EVER deluded myself into thinking this was anything BUT an erotic thriller. I would say this show,if it were being judged for the "Erotic" quality alone,would register as an 8 or 9. Factor in the sparsity of true drama,the laughable action scenes and mind-numbing plot coincidences,and this show drops to a 4 or 5.

A lovely,blue-eyed blonde news reporter(LeeAnne Beaman)'s quest to break a story on a shady local businessman is sidetracked by her trying to ferret out her husband's infidelity and sub-sequentially,the lovely dark-skinned beauty(Jenna Persaud,former Penthouse pet and not much of an actress) she suspects is the one he's cheating with. The story is almost comical,but as long as you stay in the vein of the soft-core story,it will slide off you the viewer like water off a duck's back.

A decent late-night watch or rent,but nothing more.