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This comedy is a take-off on the classic 1960's movie "The Graduate" - complete with Simon & Garfunkle sounding songs. Dick Smothers Jr., the son of Dick Smothers of The Smothers Brothers, made his adult movie debut in this - and bares all - in a part similar to that which Dustin Hoffman played in the mainstream film. Ona Zee, a porn legend from the 1980s and early '90s, came out of retirement to play the Mrs. Robinson character, known here as Mrs. Wilkinson. In January 2004, at the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, this movie was nominated for "Best Screenplay," and Dick Smothers Jr., for his performance here, was up for "Best Male Newcomer" and "Best Actor." Smothers remained in the business for three years, mostly appearing in movies made by Cash Markman, the writer/director of this, such as "American Sex Idol," "Sex for Sale," "Get Lucky," and "Surreal Sex Life," all of which received Best Sex Comedy nominations at various AVN awards shows between 2004 and 2007.

This may take some imagination, but try to picture Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, back in their comedy team heyday, as song and dance sex performers. And that's exactly what this movie does! But there's more. It takes place twenty years after the adult movie team of Langley & Martini broke up. Gerry Langley and Dizzy Martini are now trying to bury the hatchet and make a come back, but the kind of dirty movies they did, back in the Golden Era of the 1970s, are long out of style - and so are they, as performers. Interviews with real adult movie legends, like Nina Hartley, Ona Zee, and Buck Adams, treat Langley & Martini as if they really existed, and we see many vintage clips of them doing their schtick from their glory days, all intercut with them as older but not necessarily wiser has-been celebrities. It's a strange premise, and stranger movie, but Steve Austin, doing a dead on Jerry Lewis impression (both young and old), and Herschel Savage, acting very much like Dean Martin, will prove that there is talent out there in Porn Valley.

The better version of this movie is the director's cut which was released on DVD by Dreamland USA. The movie was shot in February 1997 in just two days on a sound stage in the San Fernando Valley. Sprinklers were extended over the set to create the rain needed for the song and dance finale between Mike Horner and Alexandra Dane. Everyone in the cast does their own singing and there are a half dozen musical numbers. The story was a take-off on the classic "Singing in the Rain," which takes place in the 1920s and is about the making of the first talkie. "Swinging in the Rain" also takes place in the 1920s, but is about the making of the first X rated talkie! At the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, in January 1998, this movie was up for 9 awards, including Best Sex Comedy, Best Screenplay (yes, there is one!), and Best Director. Of all these nominations, no one in the cast was honored for their singing! Cash Markman was singled out by Hustler magazine and named Worst Director of the Decade for doing this movie.