The Accidental Hooker

"The Accidental Hooker" is one of Brad Armstrong's best features.

Its format departs from porn conventions, in that star Leilani Lei is in nearly every scene as she pours out her life story as a prostitute to British documentary filmmaker Marcus London, for his project about the profession in different countries.

The excellent, insightful screenplay by "Jon Bitton" (unidentified pseudonym) has a key role for Brad, a guy she met over the internet and dated, except that from the beginning he left her $500 in an envelope at the end of each date. Later, he sends her a ticket to Los Angeles, but Deep Threat shows up in his place in the limo, and Lei becomes a full-fledged prostitute after servicing him.

The film consists of a series of sexual flashbacks as she relates her work to London. The best episode has Brad pulling out the stops as art director, staging an impressive opera (replete with striking costumes and sets) scene as she fulfills Chris Cannon's life wish of climaxing a hand job just at the crescendo of an aria. Less exciting is her satisfying Barrett Blade's desire to get a blow-job while his car travels through a car wash.

I was floored by the conclusion of the interview and the movie -carefully set up with several clues and quite satisfying.

Brad has put together a real movie, not just porn footage, and Lei is terrific in the lead role.

Kaylani Lei is beautiful girl indeed. There is some Asian blood in her and she is a stunner. In this movie she is hired by a voyeur-type of man to do an interview on how she became a prostitute. And as already revealed by the title it turns out she became a prostitute by chance. And while telling the story of her life, we are shown numerous sex scenes.

After some 40 minutes this movie becomes very boring. So to sit through the remaining 80 minutes or so is an ordeal. Except for the story (!) there is little to connect the porn scenes.

The settings are mostly in a mysterious lightning. The clothing is neat and so are some of the props. The camera is well operated and the editing is all right too. But if you are not a fan of one of the actors or actresses there is little more to enjoy in this production.

Not better or worse than other adult movies, so 3 out of 10 from me.