The Pamela Principle

This capsule review was written in 1992, when this film was a new release on home video, and published in a Canadian daily newspaper. And yes, I deliberately ripped off Joe Bob Briggs in my 'final score' paragraphs back then.

THE PAMELA PRINCIPLE (Unrated) - Imperial Entertainment Video: So far this year, Alexander Gregory Hippolyte's Axis Films banner has released six of these softcore raunchfests, including this one, directed by porn auteur Paul Thomas, in which a guy facing a midlife crisis learns he's got everything he needs right at home AFTER he meets, beds, and moves in with a 20-year-old bisexual nympho.

The final score: Zero body count, unless you count the 16 naked ones; 16 popped tops; seven super-supremely naughty bits; Troy Donahue drops by to play a guy named Troy; and Frank Pesce, subject of the recent studio comedy 29th Street, disgraces his craft by playing the seedy club owner.

A guy rivals the sexual exploits his son is having when he strays from his wife into an affair with one of his new customers. He soon finds out that her party lifestyle and her lesbian girlfriend are too much for him. With a wife as beautiful as Tamera Landry how could he even think about cheating! But when the other woman is as young, hot, and sexy as Kim Brunette (also known as Veronica Cash), even this stud falls victim to her charm. This movie is one of my favorites along with "Friend of the Family" and "Masseuse". What I like most about this movie though, besides the gorgeously nude women, is that the guy eventually comes to his senses and learns a lesson. His son helps him with my favorite quote "Dad, it's New Years Eve. What are you doing here? Why aren't you home with mom?"

Kim Brunette is a real looker. I just have to say this babe has the most perfect face and hair.

The sex and nudity in the Unrated-Version is simply pulsating! This hot erotic throbber pushes for the X-rating in my opinion! As you might have guessed, the UR-version contains all the simulated sex and some female nudity that was cut to make the R-rated version.

Middle-aged Carl is bored. Bored with his life, bored with his stale marriage, and jealous of his son's sex-life. This changes when he meets beautiful model Pamela (the gorgeous Veronica Cash) at his Clothes-Making Business, and after a brief moment of doubt and guilt embarks on a passionate fling with the 21 year beauty at her flat in Hollywood. The film deals with Carl's moral dilemma of cheating on his wife, with a younger and more beautiful model. The questions of infidelity and age-gaps are dealt with in this film, and a moral message is portrayed and put across amid the sex scenes.