Visions of Passion

Jeanie (Mia Zottoli) and her magical video camera (I say magical because it can see through windows with the blinds shut) record various people having sex to use the footage in her upcoming documentary. One night she records a senator (who's a republican of course, if these things where true to life it'd been a democrat more then likely, but thats a whole different rant), anyways she records a senator with a callgirl (Regina Russell) and has to contend with an editor who steals it. The sex scenes aren't all the great, the plot boring. Skip this one.

The Goods: 10 sex scenes (m/f, f/f, and solo); Naked dancing in opening credits

Babe of the Movie: I'm all about giving fresh faces a chance, so enjoy the accolades Natalie Moore

My Grade: D

Where I Saw It: More Max

OK. This is not exactly "Rear Window". But it is a fun, sexy variation of the theme. Ava Lake stars as a woman who films her neighbors for a personal movie project. She gets involved in many stories including one with a hooker neighbor who is having an affair with a Senator. Plot has little logic and there is no way Ava can see all that is happening in other apartments. But it has Ava Lake in many sex scenes and that is good enough. She is involved in two girl-girl scenes, a three way and a solo masturbation scene ALERT: Tape the unrated edition on cable. The DVD I got was R-rated...which means all the plot holes minus all the sex scenes. It is awful!!!!!!

Buxom brunette Jeanie, (Ava Lake as credited), leads as an aspiring film director, assembling "slice of life" vignettes from the filmed trysts of playful neighbors. She works with an ambitious editor (Scotty), and develops a relationship with a lovely neighbor (Russell) who turns out to be a call-girl.

There is more depth in Lake's bust-line than in her acting, but she delivers the goods. Russell brings more depth to her character and keeps the story interesting.

Lake plays with some friends, male and female, consoles a lonely lovely lesbian neighbor, gets involved with the call-girl, and learns that one of her films shows a conservative, family-values politician getting comfort from the call girl. This discovery brings some tension to the plot and helps to maintain viewer interest.

The acting was fair, with varied performances, but the main characters were nearly believable. The plot actually made sense and gave us more reason to sit through than just for the erotic interludes. But the sexcapades were better than average, too, so "Visions of Passion" is especially worthwhile for those who enjoy the eroticism.

I picked up this DVD, thinking that it might be something quite mindless to watch while on the treadmill. Boy, I called that right.

This movie is considered in the context of its genre, that being that peculiar variety of fluffy soft core sexiness, striving to be erotic without being explicit or overly crass.

The principals are attractive, and special kudos are due to some very capable cosmetic surgeons. However, the acting is not, ahem, subtle, looking a bit like community theatre or a fairly good high school play. The dialog, and the storyline, is on par with your typical Saturday morning cartoon (if they still have those). Come to think of it, the acting brings to mind the level of animation in most of those cartoons.

Probably most surprising, the supposed sexy bits really aren't that effective. Oh, the lingerie is very nice, but I found these scenes to be fairly short, and somewhat inherently disjointed. There wasn't much flow, and the editing not really smooth: Oh, there's a bit of Scotty with Jeannie, oh there's Scotty with Lucy, oh there's Lucy with Jeannie, and then it's cut back over to the storyline.

My favorite line in the movie: Jeannie, in the midst of a whole 75 minutes of pretty clumsy dialog, responds to something Lucy says, "Oh Lucy! Who writes your stuff???" Or something like that, it really doesn't seem worthwhile to go back and check it exactly.

The movie, while it won't be discussed in the same breath as Gone With the Wind was not without merit. It has a semi-decent storyline, in an adult soap opera way. Mia Zottoli is yummy, as are the rest of the women in the cast. I would rate the film as far fetched but enjoyable.