Nina Hartley's tennis wife serves up swinging chaos—rackets aren't the only thing getting gripped.
Wild and beautiful Nina Hartley discovers that being the wife of a professional tennis player doesn't always mean the balls will be in her court. She finds that the puzzle of her life has a few 'Missing Pieces' and is out to find them! First, she ventures to an intense, real-life swinger's party that must be seen to be believed. While there she witnesses Hustler centerfold Jill Ferari put a staircase to use for which it was never intended. Later, in her search to restore meaning to her life, she literally 'cruises' the bay of San Francisco with her gorgeous black friend and burly boat captain in a seaside whirlpool that leaves the vessel spinning in circles. Her journey through some of the more mystifying aspects of sex is gently guided by her friends Lili Marlene and Cindy Carver with the able help of Mike Horner. The final stop on her erotic odyssey catches half-batting husband, Bill Dee, totally unawares ... but definitely ready to try a brand-new racket!
Practical Effects
That staircase deserves architectural preservation status.
Production
Swinger party set design: simultaneously tacky and aspirational.
Acting
Nina Hartley carries genuine screen presence through the pun minefield.
Director
John Seeman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures peak 1980s San Francisco adult film aesthetics—fog machines, nautical themes, and earnest sexual liberation before irony consumed the genre.
Nina Hartley was already establishing herself as a performer who could actually act, which made her transition to directing and sex education work later feel inevitable rather than surprising.
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