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The upper middle class Wendy Barnet (Brandy Ledford) and Alan Barnet (Cameron Daddo) are married with children and live in the suburbs. Alan is disputing a promotion with his co-worker Neil Bradley (Vincent Corazza) but his relationship with Wendy is boring. They decide to buy a swingers magazine and contact an attractive couple to rekindle their sex life. The couple Louise (Kristy Swanson) and Jack Bauer (Stephen Baldwin) schedule a date with them at the Zebra Lounge and they go to a place where they swap wives. Wendy and Alan feel satisfied with the encounter but Louise and Jack want to meet them again. Soon they find how persistent Jack is.

"Zebra Lounge" is a sexy but lame erotic-thriller. The story is predictable and full of roles. But Kristy Swanson and Brandy Ledford are very sexy and make this film worthwhile watching. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Encontro Secreto" ("Secret encounter")

The movie started off with an interesting plot line. A married couple with children toys with the idea of becoming swingers. The movie follows the awkward steps the couple takes to finally go through with the idea.

The acting was good for a B movie, but the plot became too unreal. Once they meet another couple how do they stop the relationship? What if the new couple won't stop calling them? This and every other lame idea you can come up with begins to happen. If not for the well-shot scenes of Kristy kissing Brandy this movie would be a real clunker.

to this film, which is a cable ready movie, so use that as the parameter to judge it.

Kristy Swanson is Stephen Baldwin's wife, they are swingers who come across a personal ad placed by a bored married couple (Cameron Daddo is believable as a bored sales executive).

There are a few artful scenes in the beginning, which slowly degenerate to predictable, but then the couple begin to pursue Daddo and his wife, as well as their children. They pop up at a birthday party, buy them a plasma TV and move in to the vacant house next door.

There is an amusing scene where Baldwin says he and Louise (Kristy Swanson) are committed to the relationship and want it long-term, apparently swingers "going steady" to avoid the possibility of HIV, other complications.

Overall it is entertainment, worth watching for Baldwin as the villain. 5/10.

In "Zebra Lounge" a married couple decides to try "swinging" and gets more than they bargained for. Although offering an okay complement of second-tier acting with the emphasis on drama over sexsationalism, "ZL" has the look and feel of a soap opera with a naive screenplay, too many plot-holes, and obviously scripted characters. Very ordinary stuff for hard up channel surfers.

Besides the lack of steam, the whole concept makes no sense. For a mutual partnership to evolve, there should be some sort of trust and attraction between the people, but why would one couple keep on pursing this relationship when the other couple obviously is not going to give the same in return? It is no better than going to a professional escort service which would provide you with all the needs and even make believe that they actually care for you. When it comes down to the point of threats, is there a point in continuing the relationship? We're not talking about some obsessed person who cannot leave a relationship, but professional swingers who seeks someone who they are comfortable with and whom they could trust. And after the first few bad encounters, all those qualities in this relationship is gone.

As for Kristy Swanson being in the role of the seductress, it is all cold shower from her. The real steamer role comes from Brandy Ledford, who is suppose to be the wife that reluctantly went along with the swinger idea. She had all the body cues to entice even the stiffest of corpses while Swanson acted more like a tomboy or dominatrix.

Saw this a long time ago and watched again this weekend and still think the writers and director ruined it. They had it heading down the path as an all time great erotic R rated movie and pulled the plug on it after the swimming pool scene. I don't know why they did that but it ruined an otherwise excellent adult movie. Maybe they couldn't figure out how to end it, keeping it in the same context as it started out.

I really liked this movie. Sure it was a TV movie in its day, but it was quite a turn on. The women are attractive, and the men not bad either. I have heard people give reviews about the only people who'd watch this are those who aren't old enough for x rated movies. Not everyone is in to watching people jump in the sack with no story behind it, or close ups of swollen genitals. Men like porn and wonder why us ladies don't. For me, it had a beginning, middle and end, and enough erotic material to get the mood happening. I recommend this to women to watch with their husbands, and I recommend it to men who cant find erotic material that their ladies enjoy! I don't recommend watching this with your parents, or your kids for that matter. Or with anyone you don't feel comfortable with sexually.

Fatal attraction for the swingers set. I am hard pressed to say anything nice about this film. Dull, stiffly acted by characters that you don't really care about. No sense of tension, terror or jeopardy seems to develop. The soft-core porn scenes only marginally make the film watchable. The director should have gone the whole way and dispensed with the story and focused on the equally unlikely rompings of the characters. Life is too short to spend on trifles like this. Save yourself the time: I wish I did.

This is about as close to soft Porn as cable comes. Brandy Ledford is exquisite as a brunette and by far one of the hottest MILFs on a TV screen. The Pool scene alone makes this one to watch with Kristy in High heels doing the dogie paddle around the pool before Brandy joins her.

This is very erotic and a great mood setter. But you'd better hurry because after the elevator scene the movie loses all eroticism which is replaced by terror, not a good switch.

I would have preferred to see Brandy and Kristy make naked snow angels for the remainder of the flick.

Cameron Daddo and Brandy Ledford play a typical suburban couple with typical jobs and a couple of typical kids. Unfortunately their sex life is starting to get somewhat boring, so they reluctantly decide to engage in some drug-fuelled mate swapping with another carefully-chosen couple. What could possibly go wrong?

Well, plenty as it turns out. The other couple is played by former vampire-slayer Kristy Swanson and a darkly-menacing Stephen Baldwin. For some unfathomable reason, the latter becomes totally obsessed with his fresh play-pals. This leads him to go w-a-a-a-y over the top in furthering his new best bro's career, with serious life-altering consequences. (He can do this because he seems to have both unlimited time and money at his disposal, for no clearly explained reason.)

Ms. Ledford, who is actually quite a talented actress, steals the show here. She will likely always be best-remembered as the mysterious masked lady in a travelogue hosted by Motley Crue's lead vocalist. Kristy Swanson is OK eye-candy too, but runs a distant second to the shapely Brandy here.

It's all in good entertaining fun, and a great cautionary morality tale as well for young couples just starting out. I have always wondered though - why has some wily entrepreneur not released a disc with this movie and the previously-mentioned travelogue both on it. I'm sure it would be a very hot item. But what do I know about media licensing rules?

Caught this on cable last night (part of my self-inflicted double feature with the much-better Cellular), and needless to say, it started off promising but deteriorated far too quickly into spineless, unimaginative drivel, and not enough sex (steamy or otherwise) to justify it. Found myself making a list in my head about what I needed to buy at the supermarket during the sex scenes, in fact, and during the other scenes, where the 2 virgin swingers find themselves relentlessly pursued by the deranged Baldwin brother and his lunatic wife (way to go, Kristy - you sure can pick 'em), I was going over my strategy for a Neopets game in my head.

Not going to win any awards but I was pleasantly surprised. For a late night flick free on cable, I had no complaints (although I wouldn't have wanted to pay money for the movie!). The acting was tolerable, with the plot and characters somewhat believable. The suspense could have been a hell of a lot better, but that was largely due to the lack of post-production budget (these Canadian produced flicks seem to really lack the oomph in the film score, lighting and effects that help enhance the mood of the film). All in all, I usually fall asleep on the couch watching these late-nighters, but this one made we want to watch to the end. That alone makes it worth a 5 or 6.

My wife and I watched this last night. All in all it is a good movie.

You do get to see more flesh than previously mentioned. Brandy Ledford shows off what she has got, but she is the only one. However, she is hot enough to save the movie if that is what you are looking for. You see a lot more than her 3 seconds in Demolition Man ("Oops wrong number" scene)

Yes this is Fatal Attraction for swingers. Stephen Baldwin is about as good as he was in Sliver, if that says anything.

I would never buy this movie, but my wife and I agrees that next time it is on HBO, we will do our best to tape it.

I watched this film because, well, I lust for Kristy. Ever since her cameo debut in Ferris Bueller, I've thought she combined sexiness and vulnerability in cool ways. Later roles, such as in The Phantom, added depth to her acting. I even liked her in the generally unpopular Buffy movie.

Well, Kristy is still hot, and sleazes her way through this trash effectively.

Neither the rest of the cast or the plot deserves her. The movie is worse than trash- its disgustingly amoral, violent, and sickeningly conventionally moral all at once. What a muddle. I am pretty open minded, but this stupid movie made me want to give my soul a shower.

Brandy Ledford is so used up, she looks better with her clothes on. In fact, she looks sexy while dressed. Her sex scenes were sad. Steven Baldwin looked stoned, half asleep and like he wasn't aware which movie he was in- think later Mickey Rourke. The actor cast as Brandy's hubby was wooden and unbelievable. I couldn't see why Brandy's character married him in the first place. Or why Kristy found him attractive.

I voted 3 for this , but now wonder why- 1 for Kristy, but what other redeeming features does it have? None. Rent Sliver instead.

I noticed too many unjust reviews to this flick which compelled me to comment. The movie is correctly performed and placed in Genre of Thriller and makes perfect sense when you view it with open minded eyes and fill the character's shoes. It is a low intensity thriller and I feel it works perfectly for this flick and found it very refreshing. The Bauers pursued their relations with the Barnets even after rejection for several good reason such as the need to dominate, control, subdue, and conquer someones worthy of being lifelong intimate partners. some of this is explained in the movie and the rest you must extract from understanding the characters. The involvement of the children(but not too much)in the movie gave it depth. Yes, I was disappointed that Kristy didn't show more skin but get real. I was pleasantly surprised that she was as intimate as she was. Brandi did come thru with some nice breast exposure and really shined in the movie. The movie wasn't porno but was still very spicy. There was one real flaw, a scene in the Kitchen where Wendy Barnet(Brandi Ledford)was emotionally over reacting/over acting, but it past quickly enough and didn't ruin the movie. No movie is perfect and I have my rathers but overall it was a good film and well worth seeing for open minded people.

I just came across this video over at Hollywood Video and it looked really interesting, I love Kristy Swanson as well, so I figured to give this movie a look. I think all can agree when I say, it's also nice to have a good erotic thriller here and there. While I actually liked the story, because actually it was a unique and had high tension, it just didn't seem like it was well shot, like it was just a B-Movie that didn't get the attention it deserved.

Wendy and Allen are a boring married couple who have majorly lost the spark in their sex lives. When they decide how exciting it would be to spark up the marriage by having a swap with another sexy couple, Louise and Jack, it does that, Wendy and Allen have never been happier. But when Jack and Louise don't know how to back off and start to involve themselves in Wendy and Allen's lives, including their children, things are taking an interesting turn for the worst.

Like I said, it's not really a bad movie, or TV movie? Yeah, I'm so sure they could show this on TV, but I thought that this just could've been better in some ways. But I really enjoyed Steve Baldwin and Kristy Swanson, they really brought a lot of creeps onto the screen, it was the other couple that could've done more and this movie would've been pretty good. But just always judge for yourself, that's what I like to say.

5/10

I caught this movie on HBO one night, and was really surprised at how much I liked it. Movies that deal with sex are hit or miss. Some can handle it without going over the top and there are some that just flat-out awful. Zebra Lounge is of the former.

The film starts with Alan and Wendy, the all-American couple. The problem: their sex life is boring. To rejuvenate it, they take out an ad in a swinger's magazine. In walks Buffy the First, Kristy Swanson, and one of the Baldwin Brothers (Stephen)--playing Louise and Jack, respectively.

After their first time swinging, Jack and Louise get creepy and almost become obsessed with Alan and Wendy. I won't spoil anymore of it, but suffice it to say, things get out of control.

Performances are all solid, with Stephen Baldwin's performance of Jack being especially creepy; it's almost enough to forgive him for Bio Dome. The ending is a little hard to swallow, but I can't come up with anything better. So, it works.

The sex scenes are well done -- you may not look at an elevator in the same way again -- and the direction is good. Overall, it's a cut above most of the sex thrillers that come out.

The first part of this so-called erotic thriller has got hints of that seductive, sexy quality which may have laid the basis for an interesting delve into the concept of relationship rut in general and swinging in particular. There's a truthfulness to the way our protagonist couple, played by Brandy Ledford and Cameron Daddo, start fiddling with the idea of meeting up with another couple in order to spice up their uneventful sex life. And there's also a well-directed segment with the four of them in steaming interplay in a luxury apartment. But before the steam has had time to settle, things quickly become weirder than Stephen Baldwin's gaze. His Jack Bauer turns out to be a cartoon character belonging as a villain in a second-rate superhero comic, with his wafer-thin motivation and parodic seductiveness. And George Roulston's editing is on an equal level. Only Ledford is able to maintain some sort of credibility in the midst of this B-movie mess.

I only got to see the last 4 minutes of the movie, but based on that and the descriptions listed above, you bet I'm gonna see tape it the next time it comes on. I won't give away the plot, but swinging sex with psychos? Now that's hot!!!