A 55-minute marriage crisis where the fantasies are more real than the fights.
Lil and her husband Arthur, bored with their sex life, find themselves lapsing into long and separate periods of erotic daydreams. Those dreams are so real that the couple loses all sense of reality. At work, Arthur fantasizes about his luscious secretary, while Lil's renewed acquaintance with a former boyfriend takes on a frenzied sexual encounter that heads up when another girl drops in on the two. They finally open up to each other about their unlocked sexual passions one day, and proceed to the bedroom. Their marriage, strengthened by a more honest approach, starts a whole new phase of delightful sexual encounters
Production
That hazy 1976 film stock aesthetic—every frame screams era.
Writing
Surprisingly direct dialogue about bedroom boredom for 1976.
Director
Susan Martin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This arrived during the brief 1970s window where 'porn with a plot' played actual theaters before home video killed the genre.
Candida Royalle, playing the secretary here, later became one of the first female porn directors—she literally learned on sets like this.
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