Lovers Lane

While most porn tries to be edgy, misogynistic or at least graphically "in your face", here's a movie from the era when theatrical porn was being replaced by VHS releases that's none of the above.

Instead, it's an amiable exercise in nostalgia, not unlike the tone of mainstream movies like "American Graffiti". It's extremely well-made by writer-director Duck Dumont, but perhaps inevitably, suffers from blandness. I can't imagine why a porn fan would want to see content, albeit explictly XXX, that is better done in a softcore drive-in movie (I'm thinking of hundreds of 1970s features released by such labels as Crown Pictures Intl. And New World.

Superstars Tracey Adams and Barbara Dare star, and even get a fine lesbian scene together. All the sex-scenes are upbeat, and even a potentially negative character, the cop with flashlight who frequently is interrupting the young lovers making out in convertibles or pickup trucks parked on Lovers Lane in rosy flashbacks, turns out to be a good guy.

The exterior scenes of sex are all staged in the studio, with highly professional lighting.