Jeff Stryker Does Hard Time

How are the mighty fallen. This is the first review of the last film to date made in 2001 by someone who was once the most famous gay porn star in the world. Made by Stryker's company, it's inspired by and features extracts from "Hard Time", a prison-based play, resembling "Fortune and Men's Eyes", that Stryker produced and directed. It toured the US in 1999. (Despite implications in the film, it didn't tour the world). The "Village Voice" described it as "horrifying." Stryker claims that he's very proud of the play and that this is the hard core version. It follows the standard porn format of four basically unrelated scenes but also includes Joseph Ellison singing a song about Jeff (to the tune of "I Can See Clearly Now") in the Clark/Division station in Chicago. Just for the record here is a description of the scenes. 1. Stryker pretends to audition Randy Savino for the role of Pretty Boy in the play. Then (years before Harvey Weinstein and others got into trouble for the same kind of behaviour) he says, "I want you to come down here and suck my d**k." Savino does this and more. 2. Dante Foxx and and Kurt Wagner pretend to audition for the play. They have sex with each other and then Stryker joins in. 3. Brad McGuire watches disco dancers Sarabia and Daniel Reed and then has sex with them. 4. Stryker has sex with cellmate Jackson Price, possibly on the set of the play in Chicago. Although it's partly directed by "Ross Cannon", who has had a lot of porn experience, this is a poor piece of work with a star at the end of his career going through the motions for the sake of something he believed in. The print I saw was called plain "Hard Time."