Interracial Family Needs
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- 2016
- 1h 47m
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Excellent Sweet Sinner debut for Jacky St. James
After making innumerable features for the New Sensations family plus a Showtime soft-core TV series, filmmaker Jacky St. James is a logical addition to the Couples/Romance label Sweet Sinner, following in the footsteps of Nica Noelle and James Avalon.
This family drama is well-cast and has emotional integrity, thanks to solid acting, hot sex and assured direction. It also fits into the naturalistic sex format that has made Sweet Sinner a winner.
Tyler Knight narrates and presents the drama from his point-of-view, the very sympathetic step-dad of cutie Sara Luvv. Largely off-the scene (apart from cameos and small roles) for the past four years, Knight returns with a beard and acting chops as strong as ever.
Sara's dad has just died, and Jacky starts the show with an interesting post-funeral escape for Luvv, humping her boyfriend Tyler Nixon as a life-affirming act. She goes to live with her estranged mother (Cherie DeVille), whose hubby Knight hopes to get the two women back in a simpatico mode.
But that is not to be, as Cherie hates her daughter and believes she is constantly trying to undermine her, stealing the affections of first her father and now her step-father. St. James paints an interesting portrait of a dysfunctional family, and of course the film's climax is Knight and Luvv hooking up in bed, against Tyler's better judgment.
In an interesting structural deviation from the rather regimented Sweet Sinner format (in which a very sexy but extraneous sex scene is usually provided before the main event, for variety's sake), Jacky instead has the final vignette involving Tyler's son Isiah Maxwell eloping with alt-porn star Rachael Midori. Their wet sex scene in the shower and bathroom is rousing and not the anticlimax I expected.
Coda of the story resolves the tensions between Sara and her mom in an unpredictable way and was satisfying, as the auteur refuses to take the corny route.
Well-made with James Avalon in charge of camera-work (he has directed all of the Sweet Sinner releases himself in recent years, until this one), "Family Needs" reinforces the quality reputations of both Jacky and the still underrated Sara -an actress who has no shortage of fans but is unfortunately taken for granted compared to the publicized young'uns (most of whom cannot fashion believable characters) out there like Elsa Jean, Piper Perri, Abigail Mac and Leah Gotti.
This family drama is well-cast and has emotional integrity, thanks to solid acting, hot sex and assured direction. It also fits into the naturalistic sex format that has made Sweet Sinner a winner.
Tyler Knight narrates and presents the drama from his point-of-view, the very sympathetic step-dad of cutie Sara Luvv. Largely off-the scene (apart from cameos and small roles) for the past four years, Knight returns with a beard and acting chops as strong as ever.
Sara's dad has just died, and Jacky starts the show with an interesting post-funeral escape for Luvv, humping her boyfriend Tyler Nixon as a life-affirming act. She goes to live with her estranged mother (Cherie DeVille), whose hubby Knight hopes to get the two women back in a simpatico mode.
But that is not to be, as Cherie hates her daughter and believes she is constantly trying to undermine her, stealing the affections of first her father and now her step-father. St. James paints an interesting portrait of a dysfunctional family, and of course the film's climax is Knight and Luvv hooking up in bed, against Tyler's better judgment.
In an interesting structural deviation from the rather regimented Sweet Sinner format (in which a very sexy but extraneous sex scene is usually provided before the main event, for variety's sake), Jacky instead has the final vignette involving Tyler's son Isiah Maxwell eloping with alt-porn star Rachael Midori. Their wet sex scene in the shower and bathroom is rousing and not the anticlimax I expected.
Coda of the story resolves the tensions between Sara and her mom in an unpredictable way and was satisfying, as the auteur refuses to take the corny route.
Well-made with James Avalon in charge of camera-work (he has directed all of the Sweet Sinner releases himself in recent years, until this one), "Family Needs" reinforces the quality reputations of both Jacky and the still underrated Sara -an actress who has no shortage of fans but is unfortunately taken for granted compared to the publicized young'uns (most of whom cannot fashion believable characters) out there like Elsa Jean, Piper Perri, Abigail Mac and Leah Gotti.
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