1 review
Obvious satire
For the umpteenth time, director Scotty Fox and writer Cash Markman give the audience just the minimum in terms of a VHS porn feature with "Lather", an only mildly amusing spoof of TV soap operas. It's an excuse for the usual asinine Cash in-jokes. Sloppy approach has the famous pseudonym misspelled as "Markmen" in the end credits.
Opening establishes a scene from the live daytime show "As the Loins Churn" set in a hospital with popular star Alexis DeVell tending to her comatose lover Steve Drake. Corny story has producer Randy West plotting with new staff writer Buck Adams to get rid of Alexis from the show.
Dumb in-jokes take over at this point, with West bringing up the fact that Buck used to write porn scripts for chump change, and forcing him to cooperate. Buck suggests that they have Alexis's character alienate the audience: why not have her sleep with Ron Jeremy -that works in porn! West rejects that idea -not feasible for a daytime TV show. Instead, they concoct a plot twist that will have Alexis kill Drake by pulling the plug on his life-support equipment, not giving her an advance script for the live performance to trap her.
She foils the plot by improvising dialogue to instead implicate co-star Alicyn Sterling, who is also West's lover and in cahoots on the scheme. Network exec Monique Hall digs the Alexis twist and movie ends with poor Alicyn in tears -she's the one losing her job.
Big-bust actresses make this dumb feature watchable, and fortunately it runs only slightly more than an hour long.
Opening establishes a scene from the live daytime show "As the Loins Churn" set in a hospital with popular star Alexis DeVell tending to her comatose lover Steve Drake. Corny story has producer Randy West plotting with new staff writer Buck Adams to get rid of Alexis from the show.
Dumb in-jokes take over at this point, with West bringing up the fact that Buck used to write porn scripts for chump change, and forcing him to cooperate. Buck suggests that they have Alexis's character alienate the audience: why not have her sleep with Ron Jeremy -that works in porn! West rejects that idea -not feasible for a daytime TV show. Instead, they concoct a plot twist that will have Alexis kill Drake by pulling the plug on his life-support equipment, not giving her an advance script for the live performance to trap her.
She foils the plot by improvising dialogue to instead implicate co-star Alicyn Sterling, who is also West's lover and in cahoots on the scheme. Network exec Monique Hall digs the Alexis twist and movie ends with poor Alicyn in tears -she's the one losing her job.
Big-bust actresses make this dumb feature watchable, and fortunately it runs only slightly more than an hour long.