Looking back just 15 years, I'm constantly thinking that cliché "They don't make 'em like that anymore". Nick Orleans' excellent (and forgotten) "After Midnight" is a perfect example, and even he doesn't make 'em like this anymore.
There are nine sex scenes, all of them successful in providing eroticism, not merely mechanical XXX content. It's more a situational, slice of life piece than a story line, as three beauties with a long friendship, hang out and discuss their romances, all of which are appealing in the then-popular "Couples" genre that was a specialty of the Adam & Eve label.
Nick's script does tie the action together and set up what's to come: contract star Dale Dabone wanders into their house and volunteers as a pro realtor to sell it for them. He is rebuffed, but when he leaves his calling card we know he'll be back in a few reels for some heavy-duty humping.
First flashback story is about a colleague Gina (Brandi Lyons) working as an accountant who is subjected to sexual harassment at work, but turns it to a quality sex tryst, dominating (literally) her boss.
Next flashback vignette features the dynamite team of Voodoo and Nicole Sheridan putting on an impromptu sex show for heroine Gina Ryder. Voodoo's dialog of mystical mumbo-jumbo (he's a feng shui expert with Chinese-styled costuming) fits in perfectly with the New Age mood of a typical Adam & Eve movie back in the Y2K era,.
Gina and her co-stars Ava Vincent and Taylor St. Claire each relate such stories, as well as having romantic sex in the present, and whatever secret sauce Nick mixed in to keep the long (2 hours 20 minutes) feature moving and interesting I applaud him.
The action is varied, as is the sexual content, and a large cast performs nicely in ensemble fashion. This was meant as a light diversion, what Graham Greene used to refer to as "an entertainment" when describing and differentiating his various printed works, and it's a poster child for the superiority of straightforward mainstream adult cinema, over the unsatisfactory polar opposites of empty gonzo content on he one hand, and pretentious, self-inflated "visionary" crap on the other.
There are nine sex scenes, all of them successful in providing eroticism, not merely mechanical XXX content. It's more a situational, slice of life piece than a story line, as three beauties with a long friendship, hang out and discuss their romances, all of which are appealing in the then-popular "Couples" genre that was a specialty of the Adam & Eve label.
Nick's script does tie the action together and set up what's to come: contract star Dale Dabone wanders into their house and volunteers as a pro realtor to sell it for them. He is rebuffed, but when he leaves his calling card we know he'll be back in a few reels for some heavy-duty humping.
First flashback story is about a colleague Gina (Brandi Lyons) working as an accountant who is subjected to sexual harassment at work, but turns it to a quality sex tryst, dominating (literally) her boss.
Next flashback vignette features the dynamite team of Voodoo and Nicole Sheridan putting on an impromptu sex show for heroine Gina Ryder. Voodoo's dialog of mystical mumbo-jumbo (he's a feng shui expert with Chinese-styled costuming) fits in perfectly with the New Age mood of a typical Adam & Eve movie back in the Y2K era,.
Gina and her co-stars Ava Vincent and Taylor St. Claire each relate such stories, as well as having romantic sex in the present, and whatever secret sauce Nick mixed in to keep the long (2 hours 20 minutes) feature moving and interesting I applaud him.
The action is varied, as is the sexual content, and a large cast performs nicely in ensemble fashion. This was meant as a light diversion, what Graham Greene used to refer to as "an entertainment" when describing and differentiating his various printed works, and it's a poster child for the superiority of straightforward mainstream adult cinema, over the unsatisfactory polar opposites of empty gonzo content on he one hand, and pretentious, self-inflated "visionary" crap on the other.