The Heat Of The Moment

Date sent:        Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:27:33 -0500 (EST)
From:             Joey Markham ([email protected])
Subject:          REVIEW: "The Heat Of The Moment"




A soap opera is the only way to describe this couples-oriented feature.
Several cast members speak directly into the camera at times to advance the
plot (and in a few cases even during sex scenes) and most of the sex just
seems to happen on the spur of the moment (and 'heat of' as the title
implies) without meaning or sentimental feeling, as the story for this one
could have lended itself to something quite enjoyable for couples.


THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT
director: Jim Travis.   Intropics, 1990.
running time: 78 minutes.

Imperial rating: 2.50 / 4.00

cast: Sunny McKay, Stephanie Page, Arcie Simpson (Miller), China (Cassandra
  Dark), Eric Edwards, Randy Spears, Jon Dough.


We open up on the estate of Mr.Philip Block (Eric Edwards).  Kim (Sunny
McKay) comes walking around a corner and starts off the story by telling us
that by the time she came to Hollywood (from Australia), she learned that a
woman could use her body (breasts, vagina, mouth, etc) to get what she wanted.
She says she uses those things too, but also uses her mind (proving she's a 
woman with a head on her shoulders).  Cut to Philip who tells us that he knew
Kimmy's father because they fought in the Vietnam war together.  In fact,
her father saved his life.  So when he received a letter from him, telling
him that his daughter was coming to the States for a visit, Philip felt it
was the least he could do to invite her to stay at his place.  He thought,
by the way Kim's father wrote, that she was nine or ten years old.  "Turns
out she was nine PLUS ten," he tells us.  "In fact, she WAS a ten - plus!
If you get the picture."  Back to Kim, who tells us that Philip has two
roommates; Billy (Randy Spears) and Tim (Jon Dough).  Billy's a womanizer
and Tim's just staying there because he recently split up with his wife
Carla (Arcie Miller).  "Phil was great," she says, "but he had one large 
problem.  Tina."  Now we meet Tina (Stepanie Page - no confusion with Rage
name-wise) who tells us that Philip is just the kind of man she needs in
her life.  So much so that she can practically hear the wedding bells 
already.  She says, "I'm just thinking.. no more work, shopping in Paris,
tanning booths.. the whole nine yards."  Then she tells us it was hate at
first sight when she met Kim.

We cut to that night with Tina and Tim sitting in Phil's living room.  She's
asking him if he thinks he and Carla will get back together but he doesn't
think so because Carla now has him pegged for a womanizer like Billy.  "Well,
you know what they say.  Marriage isn't for everybody," she says but is
certain herself that everything will work out for her and Phil.  There's a
knock at the door and once Tina opens it to find Kim standing there, she
turns around and asks Tim, "Another one of Billy's bimbos?"  Once the 
confusion is straightened out, Tim helps Kim with her bags and they have a
seat in the living room again.  "You know," Tim says, "Phil was expecting
somebody a lot... younger.  He's gonna flip when he sees you."  Tina adds,
"He'd better flip in my direction."  Then Tim formally introduces the two
girls and he tells Kim that Philip had to work late.  ["I could see trouble
brewing already," Tina tells us.  "I mean, what's more attractive to a man
than a girl with a cute accent and coming from *those* lips?"]  So Tim says
he'll help Kim settle in and Tina decides to leave.  He and Kim chat a bit
more then she tells him she has a mild case of jet-lag, so she decides to
take a shower before turning in.

- They spend a few minutes of Sunny in the shower, but this isn't really a
scene - not even a masturbation solo.  She's very sensual with herself as
the water lightly pours down on her body.  She even has make-up on but never
splashes water on her face.  Some people may argue that she is too slim, even
anorexic-looking, but I think she's just perfect.  Her small breasts look
like cupcakes and her figure is very mannequin-like.  I also love the way
her ribcage stays hidden even when her back is slightly arched.  She looks
absolutely divine as she rubs a sponge on herself, letting the soap suds
trickle down her chest and flat stomach.  I've seen in several other videos
Sunny wearing bodysuits and exercising, so she definitely keeps herself in
shape (and I've never seen her smoke either, so I believe she's very health
conscious.  Of course, I've also never seen her have sex with Ron Jeremy
so I can't say for sure that she hasn't done either since I haven't seen all
of her videos :-).

Upon walking through the hallway, Kim meets up with Billy.  After greeting
eachother he tells her, "You're a little older than I expected.  A real
doll, though.  Are all the girls like that from down under?"  "That depends,"
she replies.  "Are all the guys like *this* down under?" and she grabs his
dick.  He grins and tells her, "I like your style.  A little on the, uh, 
bold side but then again, I like my women bold."  He suggests they get to
know eachother a little better, telling her his room is right down the hall.
She declines, then they head their separate ways and Billy says aloud that
he'll be downstairs shooting pool (to give her the hint for later on).

["Yeah, there was something about Kim," Philip tells us.  "Something I 
liked.  Something nasty.  And her accent drove me wild.  I was beginning to
have second doubts about marrying Tina.  She's making me feel trapped
somehow.  Now don't get me wrong.  Tina's a good catch.  I just wasn't
ready to tie the knot."]

So now we go back to Billy, in the basement, when Kim eventually comes 
walking down the stairs and approaches him.  She reaches for some balls and
interrupts his game.  "You're playing with my balls," he tells her.  But he
doesn't mind at all because her presence alone just makes him horny.  He
gets closer to her and moments later, welcomes her to the U.S. the only way
he can think of (meaning, he's thinking with his other head).

- Randy lifts Sunny up onto the pool table and has her lay back as he eats
her out, parting her panties to the side.  When she gives him head he tells
her he's never had a blowjob from Australia before.  Before doing a mish, he
slides her panties off, sniffs them then tosses them aside for later.  
Unfortunately, this scene is slow moving.  They even do it doggy style but
it is cut short for some reason.  To top it off, Randy reaches for her
panties again and cums all over them.  Sunny's surprised by what he's done
but he just smiles and slowly heads back upstairs to take a shower.  
"Typical playboy," she tells us.  "It has to be damn Billy."

The next morning.  Billy joins Philip and Tim who are eating breakfast in
the kitchen.  "How was your date last night?" Philip asks Billy.  "Still
sleeping," he replies.  "That good, huh?" asks Philip then continues with,
"Aparently from what I hear, so is our little houseguest."  "What, that
good or still sleeping?" asks Billy.  "Both," simultaneously reply Philip
and Tim.  Philip still hasn't seen Kim yet but Billy warns him to watch his
balls.  "She has kind of a funny way of introducing herself.  You'll see,"
he says.  Philip wonders why Kim's sleeping in so late then decides to check
up on her.  The other two blokes follow him as well.  As soon as Philip 
opens the door and peers through the crack, he says, "Holy shit, am I in
for it!"  All Billy can say as he stares at Kim laying out on her bed asleep
is, "I want those panties."  The other two look over at him doubtfully then
they quietly close the door.

["Philip was very nice.  I liked him a lot," Kim tells us.  "The others were
nice too, but they had problems."  Carla is Tim's problem and as for Billy,
she can see right through his playboy act and that it was all show.  She
continues, "I told Philip that I wanted to try my hand at acting while I
was here.  He got me into this acting class and it was there I met Maria."]

Cut to Kim's room where she and fellow classmate Maria (Cassandra Dark) are
reading over a script.  Kim takes a break by asking Maria if she can tell
her more about what the Yankee guys like.  Maria says she can't tell her too
much because she's faithful to her boyfriend.  So she just shows her instead.

- Once Cassandra slides Sunny's jean skirt off (they have a little trouble
doing so at first - I like it when spontaneous moments like this occur; the
girls giggle and smile and show us they're in good spirits), she kisses the
areas around her panties, then slides them off and they hop onto the bed.  
Once Sunny begins to chow down on her Asian friend, she says, "It's been a 
long time since I've had this pleasure."  Speaking of Cassandra, is she 
really Asian?  She may have been billed to look like one in some features 
(like Rosebud's "Anal Cuties Of Chinatown" parts 1, 2, and 3 - not to mention
*this* video, what with the billing of 'China' and all) but upon watching
her in "Taboo 8" she looks totally different, very all-American.  Anyhow, 
this black-haired cutie has a petite body with juicy natural breasts.  The
girls get into a 69 and use their thumbs in eachother's pussies.  They writhe
and squeal with delight but you can tell they were faking it, unfortunately.

["Like I said, there was something about Kimmy that I liked," Philip tells
us, as he's doing a little weeding in his backyard.  "She seemed a lot more
experienced than her years lead on."  He tells us he's already taken her to
the usual places like Universal Studios and Magic Mountain where, while they
were both on the ride, she clung to him like a frightened child.  "I hate to
admit it but I kinda liked it.  Especially when I realized that I had a
raging hard-on that wouldn't quit."]  He says he's beginning to have mixed
feelings for her as well as for his love for Tina.  Speak of the devil, Tina
comes along with a book in hand and confronts him about setting a date for
their wedding.  He feels she's rushing into this whole thing but she's quite
confident about it.  She hands him the book and a pencil and gets him to lay
back, saying, "Why don't you just set a date and I'll remind you of what it's
gonna be like on our wedding night?"  With that, Tina rubs his crotch and
pulls his pants down halfway, proceeding to give him head.

- Brown haired Stephanie Page looks like she could be the early Jamie Lee's
sister; the early meaning pre-boobjob and also brown-haired as opposed to
the dyed blonde look Jamie currently sports.  Stephanie can deep throat with
the greatest ease, too.  But another one of her assets are her big natural
breasts.  Eric gives her head briefly and they start off with a missionary.
She's moaning about how it could be like this all the time if they got 
married and Eric turns over to us, as he's still plowing into her, and says,
"She could fuck like a bunny and was a tremendous bullshitter" and continues
to display his annoyance about how she's rushing their commitment.  Steph
squeals during her doggy poke and does a pretty good cowgirl (with her 
pendulous boobs flopping around like fish out of water).  Then it's back to
missionary then Eric goes for a bit of titty-fucking.  He ends up squirting
his load on her neck (strangest of all places to do so).  Eric looks at us
again and says, "She's got great tits too, what can I say?  But that damn
wedding plan!"

"Well, did you set a date yet?" Tina asks him, reaching over for the book.
He says he got distracted and they both chuckle.  When she asks if she should
be the one to pick a date, he tells her no.  "No?  What do you mean no?"
she asks.  He tells her he's still not ready for marriage but she says she
can't wait anymore so she makes a proposition that either a date is set now
or they're finished.  He thinks for a bit then says, "If that's the way it
has to be."  Disappointed, she takes her stuff and walks away.

Back inside the house, we see Carla sitting on a couch in what seems to be
the den.  Kim tells us that even though Philip had his problems, she was more
concerned about Tim and Carla.  ["Carla came over to visit Tim, but everyone
had gone except for me.  So we had a real woman to woman discussion.  I could
tell she was still in love with him, so I decided to help things along."]
To prove to Carla that Tim still loves her, Kim comes up with a plan that
will have Carla spying on them to see for herself.  

The next day.  Kim, Maria, and Tim come home from a day at the beach and end
up in the den where Kim tries to ply Tim with champagne to be able for her
and Maria to take advantage of him.  Meanwhile, Carla's spying from the next
room and hears Tim say that the two girls are great and that they had a great
time at the beach but there's only one girl that he really wants and she's
not there.  Surprise, Carla takes that as her cue and steps into the room.
Tim sure is surprised and Carla comes clean with the fact that she was 
spying on him to know for sure if he still loved her.  Once Kim and Maria
leave them alone, Carla and Tim say they love eachother and celebrate their
newly restored love for eachother by having sex on the couch.

- Arcie Miller is a dark-haired cutie with a slightly plump body and big
natural boobs.  She has a semi-wholesome look that doesn't really give her
a porn star image, either (I guess you can say she isn't your typical, run-
of-the-Mill[er] starlet.. ugh, bad joke).  Unfortunate enough as it is, this
scene is cut very short (doesn't even last five minutes!).  We don't even get
that much of a chance to see her luscious, hairy pussy (and Jon doesn't even
do more than finger it!).  They only get into a brief cowgirl and afterwards
he pulls out and cums in her mouth, which she laps away at as she bobs her
lips up and down his head as he orgasms.  This was a poorly edited scene
and a total waste of Arcie.

Now we find Tina crying in the backyard, in the company of Billy.  She's
pouring her heart out to him about her break-up with Philip.  He tells her
that these things happen and that he could have told her a year ago that
Philip wasn't the right guy for her.  Then he says, "You ever hear that
expression 'You can't see the forest through the trees'?  Well, you couldn't
tell that.. well, that.. I was in love with you.. the whole time."  Surprised
about it, she says she had no idea.  He says it's true and tells her he'd
like to show her what it'd be like on their wedding night.  "You really mean
that?" she asks, vulnerably falling for it.  "Of course," he tells her and
eventually draws her closer to him for a kiss... to begin with.

- Some tit sucking and pussy eating starts things off (Stephanie also has
a great body with barely a protruding rib as she lays back) but the highlight
once again is her ability to deep throat.  We are even treated to a slow-
motion shot of Steph taking Randy's spear twice down her gullet.  ["Fuckin'
asshole," Billy talks about Philip as he enjoys his deep throat session.
He looks at us and says with a wide expression on his face, "He's missing
this!  What a jerk!"]  They get into a missionary, followed by a doggy
(both hot - and I just love the shot of Steph's face during doggy as the
cameraman shoots from underneath; her boobs dangle before her eyes).  A
weak cumshot ends the scene.  Stephanie just gets one load on her cheek
with the rest completely dodging her pretty face.

["So you see, everything does work out for the best," Kim tells us.  "Tim
and Carla finally got back together.  Tina and Billy ran off to Vegas to
get married.  And me, my moving to Hollywood did one thing for me.  I
finally got what I really wanted all along."  She sits down on a bed and
crawls closer to whom we soon enough discover is there with her - Philip.
Philip tells us, "And I finally got what *I* really wanted... all along."]

- This is a slow moving scene.  During the blowjob, Eric looks over to us
and says, "Now I get what I *really* want!" (whether he's speaking in 
character or as himself I don't know).  They do a doggy then missionary then
Sunny gets a weak facial/neck splattering.  Her hair looks a little too
curly here and her squeals sound a little fake (why, Sunny, why?).  So then
he tells her, "Welcome to the U.S. of A.  Good to have you aboard."

While they embrace and kiss, Kim says, "You know something?  Looks like my
father saved you again!"  He looks at us briefly then turns back to her and
says, "Looks that way" and they continue kissing.  The end.

I found this movie just passable because of the following 'pros': the women
are all natural, they all look flawless (skin-wise, their faces and bodies
didn't look to have a scratch or mark, besides moles), the storyline had a
sense of realism (apart from the fact that the sex just happened for the
purpose of 'doing it' only - which falls under the 'cons' category), and
the acting was decent enough for porn movies even though I think Eric Edwards
definitely has talent for mainstream films.

The 'cons': the sex just happened for the sake of doing it with a sleazy air
about it rather than passionate (which is the direction the story seemed to
be headed at first), the characters (because of the "wham, bam, thank you
Ma'am" end results) are ones we really can't care for, and the sex scenes 
weren't all that great: the good ones, or seemingly good ones, were cut short
while the less heated ones tended to drag on forever.

If only the sex were more soft (and of equal time-lengths) this would have
been a great couples film but the storyline for this one has 'soap-opera' 
written all over it.  With slightly improved writing (and, of course, 
execution) this could have been great to be shot on film.  Cassandra and
Arcie were nothing more than wasted resources but Stephanie holds her own
well enough.  As for Sunny, she doesn't shine as bright as she should have,
but is still quite a stunning Aussie-maiden to look at even in fully-clothed
dialog scenes (well, speaking as a die-hard fan that is :-).

Fans of couples-oriented appeal may find something they'll like but I don't
expect fans of hardcore, explicit raunch to get caught up in the heat of
THESE moments.


Joey Markham
[email protected]