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A shaggy-dog comedy gem
All-time Adult CInema greats Anthony Spinelli and John Leslie created this amazing "rescue" of the shaggy-dog story genre, breathing life into a format that's so old hat. Apologies to diehard fans of the Coen Brothers and Wes Anderson, who have shaggy-dogged their way to success.
Leslie, acting rather than directing here, is amazing at being able to seem so real and natural, while playing an absurd character. Movie begins with him arguing with the director as he pours out his ridiculous story, with the director's off-camera voice begging him to get to the point. Yes, pointlessness and tedious dragging things out are the hallmarks of shaggy-dog storytelling.
John is searching for the ideal woman, which he perversely defines as "average". He's not looking for a glamour girl or knockout, he uses as a first example his attraction to a bank teller who epitomizes looking ordinary -that's what really turns him on.
The kicker is that after sex he reluctantly is driven to pop the question: "Do you do windows?". Each actress here in flashbacks is both bewildered and angered by this question, losing any warmth or attraction to John the schlub.
One flashback has his pal Joey Silvera, overacting absurdly as usual, trying to cheer up depressed John by acting as matchmaker, fixing him up with a Brazilian girl in his own little black book named Sugar Rabinowitz. She turns out to be dynamo Elle Rio, who humps John with a trademark deep throat thrown in, and is at first angered by John's inevitable question, but soon relents and declares in her cute accent: "Maybe I will do windows for you one day". Of course he never sees her again.
Other beauties in the cast are: Candie Evans as the neatly dressed in business garb Candie Evans as the bank teller; scrumptious Krista Lane as an oddball sex performer who humps nerdy Rex Nemo on Leslie's desk, before they find out that they're at the wrong address. Amusingly, the unknown Nemo is the spitting image of current comedy star Jim Parsons!
After he has a dream about a girl washing his office windows one night, that girl shows up next day in the form of Gayle Sterling, who's also a deep throat specialist and has a fine deadpan approach to comedy. After she humps him, the punchline is that she doesn't do windows, no, she does Winnebago detailing, and also has come to the wrong place. Yes that auto detailing gag snuck up on me.
After all the sex is done, the movie has a surprise ending which is terrific and even moving, in the manner of that Silent Era sentimentality that Jerry Lewis used to interject in his pantomime comedies (like "The Bellboy" and "The Errand Boy").
Leslie, acting rather than directing here, is amazing at being able to seem so real and natural, while playing an absurd character. Movie begins with him arguing with the director as he pours out his ridiculous story, with the director's off-camera voice begging him to get to the point. Yes, pointlessness and tedious dragging things out are the hallmarks of shaggy-dog storytelling.
John is searching for the ideal woman, which he perversely defines as "average". He's not looking for a glamour girl or knockout, he uses as a first example his attraction to a bank teller who epitomizes looking ordinary -that's what really turns him on.
The kicker is that after sex he reluctantly is driven to pop the question: "Do you do windows?". Each actress here in flashbacks is both bewildered and angered by this question, losing any warmth or attraction to John the schlub.
One flashback has his pal Joey Silvera, overacting absurdly as usual, trying to cheer up depressed John by acting as matchmaker, fixing him up with a Brazilian girl in his own little black book named Sugar Rabinowitz. She turns out to be dynamo Elle Rio, who humps John with a trademark deep throat thrown in, and is at first angered by John's inevitable question, but soon relents and declares in her cute accent: "Maybe I will do windows for you one day". Of course he never sees her again.
Other beauties in the cast are: Candie Evans as the neatly dressed in business garb Candie Evans as the bank teller; scrumptious Krista Lane as an oddball sex performer who humps nerdy Rex Nemo on Leslie's desk, before they find out that they're at the wrong address. Amusingly, the unknown Nemo is the spitting image of current comedy star Jim Parsons!
After he has a dream about a girl washing his office windows one night, that girl shows up next day in the form of Gayle Sterling, who's also a deep throat specialist and has a fine deadpan approach to comedy. After she humps him, the punchline is that she doesn't do windows, no, she does Winnebago detailing, and also has come to the wrong place. Yes that auto detailing gag snuck up on me.
After all the sex is done, the movie has a surprise ending which is terrific and even moving, in the manner of that Silent Era sentimentality that Jerry Lewis used to interject in his pantomime comedies (like "The Bellboy" and "The Errand Boy").
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- Dec 27, 2022
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