Bud Lee explores in interesting fashion the principal theme of Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski in this forgotten Adam & Eve fantasy feature. Perhaps it went over everyone's heads, as I just added it to IMDb today, over 20 years after its release.
Shayla LaVeaux is the beautiful and most empathetic heroine, cheated on by her sponging boyfriend Kyle Stone. All seems to be going in traditional soap opera fashion until suddenly lovely Taylor Moore appears on screen as the narrator, informing us of the importance of our choices, which determine one's future. She appears in the frame with the story's protagonists much in the way Rod Serling would introduce a "Twilight Zone" episode, and reappears frequently throughout the show, snapping her fingers and winking at the viewer to indicate an alternate "fork in the road" reality is being shown.
Lee, who I consider the most underrated director in Adult Cinema annals, juggles the time frames and alternate realities with aplomb, leading ultimately to an orgy finale as Shayla is destined to end up at a swingers' party hosted by a nearly unrecognizable Alec Metro.
No script credit is given, but the variations on a theme are quite clever and ultimately more interesting than the mainstream Hollywood derivation of Kieslowski, Gwyneth Paltrow in "Sliding Doors", released a few months before "69th Parallel" was shot.
TJ Hart plays Shayla's BFF while Kylie Ireland is quite effective as The Other Woman who is involved with Stone.
