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1/10
Poor Student Film Project?
guyb23 June 2003
This film had a genuinely interesting premise. But the poor script, acting and general production quality put me to sleep. I have criticized nearly every element of a film at one time or other, but this was the first time I saw such poor looping, especially toward the end of the movie. It was worse then the worst Japanese dubbed godzilla movie from the 50's! And this was in English! Pass this one by.
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1/10
Shot Like a Bad Porn Film
honkycat9712 June 2007
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This was just a terrible movie. The acting, direction and dialogue was so poor that I expected something pornographic to happen at any second and even that would have been a relief from the tedium of this film. I had hoped, by the title, that this would be a decent lesbian love story. It was more like a bad parody on "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". There was no chemistry between any of the characters and the story just fell flat. In more competent hands, this may have been an OK film, but as the previous user pointed out, it looks as if it was a bad student film project. Avoid this--even if you see it on a bargain shelf, like I did. In the future, I will try to research movies of this nature before I rent them. This was a total waste of time and money.
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10/10
Excellent acting, Realistic story line!!!
karbabe21 April 2001
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I love this film! LuLu did you really see this film? There was no husband, however, there was a boyfriend! For any straight women becoming involved with another women, there are many obstacles to overcome! If you think Kelly was mean you should have seen my sister's reaction when she found out about me! I think Kelly is a very cute girl who handled her straight feelings alot better than most! By the end of the film she does come around! Besides this is acting not real life although this film pro-trays real life brilliantly! Hats off to Kelly and all the other cast members! Myself, my large circle of friends would love to see more films like this and more of cute Kelly!
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6/10
Decent plot & acting (as they go) but poor technical quality
jaded_viewer30 March 2005
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The technical quality of this film, and by this I mean the source audio, video, and DVD transfer, is quite poor. After a fairly slick opening, the movie drops into porn territory in terms of quality. The video looks like it was done on Hi8 or something, and the audio often has lots of distracting background noise. Though there was one party scene where the audio was actually of the party, almost unheard of these days, and it was rather interesting.

The DVD transfer suffers from a terrible audio sync problem, where the audio increasingly gets behind the video as the movie progresses, so you have perhaps a highly distracting one second or so of delay by the end. A previous reviewer mistook this for bad looping but I don't know how - the audio constantly reveals its true source via the ambiance; perhaps a couple of very short instances were dubbed, but that's about it. The DVD has no chapter points either, and appears to be a VHS capture. Honestly, I could have done a better job with my ADS InstantDVD! Almost the worst transfer I have ever seen.

But once you get past that, the plot is pretty good, the acting is pretty good, and there are some decent lines delivered here and there. I thought the love scenes looked a bit forced, but I guess not bad for the shoestring this thing must have been made with. As usual for the genre, the ending was one of those tacked on up-beat things where the characters spit out dialog that maybe looks good on paper, but no one ever says out loud due to the pomposity level.

In case you're wondering, there is absolutely no nudity in this film.

If you like the genre, you might like this one. I give it a 6/10. I got into it after a while and enjoyed the characters and the soapish atmosphere. Keep an eye peeled for the bull-dyke ex-lover, who is played by the writer/director.
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