This mediocre soft porn movie for the Skinemax after-hours crowd (plus Playboy DVD) holds little interest on its own, but I found it interesting to compare to hardcore porn features of its era, given its femme cast headed by top talent recruited from the world of XXX. Oddly enough, these actresses gave far better performances in hardcore assignments, merely adequate here in corny soap opera scenes and brief (but numerous) simulated sex scenes -eleven versus the standard five of vignette porn back in the day.
Kaylani Lei stars and is sympathetic as a a masseuse, but a good girl who gives actual rubdowns, no happy endings. Her friend and masseur co-worker George (tall Mark Weiler) has no such compunctions, servicing female customers as a male prostitute. In one instance, his client dispenses with a massage and insists that George service her sexually -immediately.
The script is extremely old-fashioned and predictable, leading in dull fashion to each of them forced to make a choice, moral and romantic. The sex scenes are roughly R-rated level, lasting one or two minutes each, with the girls faking passion more than they usually do in hardcore, to make up for the absence of explicit sex shots or God forbid, any money shots.
Wicked Pictures stars Lei & Jessica Drake (latter as one of George's wealthy housewife clients) are alluring, with the great Michelle Lay well-cast and convincing as their self-centered and dominating boss, plus Mary Carey, uber-sexy as a creepy customer who leads George astray -oddly enough 16 years later she's still comically in politics running for governor of California, about as credible as Tom Laughlin aka Billy Jack when he ran for president.
Overall, this closely resembles the dozens of XXX romantic dramas directed by Nicholas Steele around this time with stars like Dee, Jassie and Lauren Phoenix. Main difference, other than the length of the sex scenes, is that Steele consistently had better production values.
