Stuart Canterbury's career is quite variable, but he occasionally earns high marks with a fully-realized, well-crafted work like this one.
Michael J. Cox, a gifted Adult actor of his era who deserves rediscovery, is cast as a movie nut, who sits through films over and over at his local bijou. The film playing is a gangster picture "Girl with a Tommy Gun", and we get to see scenes from it, deftly enacted by Canterbury who brings us into the old movie itself, and uses it as counterpoint to the ongoing story starring fan Cox. It's not forced or schematic like a Woody Allen film ("The Purple Rose of Cairo" best example) and I was frankly amazed at what a good job he did.
Cox dreams of the actress who's the leading lady of the film, Chloe. Script contrives to bring them together, as Chloe one night is bored and horny, so she goes cruising and picks up Cox as a potential one-night-stand, seeing him leaving the theater.
They get it on, and though he realizes a fan's ultimate dream, humping his dream girl from the Silver Screen, he becomes thoroughly disillusioned the next day observing her callous, egocentric behavior. It's back to reality for the star-struck protagonist, and I not only identified with Cox but felt like a real character was created here, not just the usual porn stick figure, only good for sex acts.
Counterpoint is provided by the sweet concession stand girl, nicely played by Ginger Paige, who Cox overlooks in his dazed obsession with Chloe. Kyle Stone has one of his best roles as the gangster in the film-within-a-film, and the feature's requisite big-breast component is ably filled by Angelica Sinn.
There's a charm and sweetness, plus some bite thanks to Chloe's enthusiastic negativity, that makes "Flicker" a real gem. It's buried deep in the Vivid catalog, undoubtedly unpromoted in its day due to the absence of any big stars in the cast, but quite rewarding to the perceptive viewer.
Michael J. Cox, a gifted Adult actor of his era who deserves rediscovery, is cast as a movie nut, who sits through films over and over at his local bijou. The film playing is a gangster picture "Girl with a Tommy Gun", and we get to see scenes from it, deftly enacted by Canterbury who brings us into the old movie itself, and uses it as counterpoint to the ongoing story starring fan Cox. It's not forced or schematic like a Woody Allen film ("The Purple Rose of Cairo" best example) and I was frankly amazed at what a good job he did.
Cox dreams of the actress who's the leading lady of the film, Chloe. Script contrives to bring them together, as Chloe one night is bored and horny, so she goes cruising and picks up Cox as a potential one-night-stand, seeing him leaving the theater.
They get it on, and though he realizes a fan's ultimate dream, humping his dream girl from the Silver Screen, he becomes thoroughly disillusioned the next day observing her callous, egocentric behavior. It's back to reality for the star-struck protagonist, and I not only identified with Cox but felt like a real character was created here, not just the usual porn stick figure, only good for sex acts.
Counterpoint is provided by the sweet concession stand girl, nicely played by Ginger Paige, who Cox overlooks in his dazed obsession with Chloe. Kyle Stone has one of his best roles as the gangster in the film-within-a-film, and the feature's requisite big-breast component is ably filled by Angelica Sinn.
There's a charm and sweetness, plus some bite thanks to Chloe's enthusiastic negativity, that makes "Flicker" a real gem. It's buried deep in the Vivid catalog, undoubtedly unpromoted in its day due to the absence of any big stars in the cast, but quite rewarding to the perceptive viewer.