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Different Strokes

Different Strokes

Released Sep 01st, 1997
Running Time 87
Director Michael Paul Girard
Company Coastline Films
Cast Dana Plato, Gabriella Hall, Bentley Mitchum, Landon Hall, David Millbern, Michelle Trongone
Critical Rating Not Yet Rated
Genre Alternative

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To borrow one of the more time-honored clichés found in action film trailers… "Dana Plato as you've never seen her before."

All grown up, with a severe haircut, and obviously ready for lesbianism, Ms. Plato establishes some kind of world record for nudity by a former child actor. Scotty Schwartz who?

Not to be confused with the former TV series, Different Strokes exists for the crass titillation purposes of watching Plato exchange Socratic body language with brunette lovely Landon Hall. Philosophy aside, Plato's job in this film seems to be one of basically licking her lips and feasting her eyes whenever Hall walks into a room. Faster than you can say, "leak in the dyke," the fun begins – in swimming pools, shower stalls and, occasionally, on a dance floor. To keep the rampant female-female sexuality from becoming totally embarrassing, a meager storyline is tossed in for laughs.

Plato, who has a cheating lesbian lover in New York, flies to California to coordinate a lingerie photo shoot with pretty boy photog Bentley Mitchum (Robert Mitchum's grandson). Michum's character is one of those vapid L.A. guys who exists primarily on the strength of his wavy hair and dimples. Naturally, this gives Plato the green light to recruit his disgruntled girlfriend (Hall) as a replacement for the one she's about to lose.

If you can smell dialog utterances like, "Men are pigs," seconds before they're out of someone's mouth, you've probably seen this picture before in some form or another. And, as you might expect, the sexual discourse doesn't get much deeper than that, except when Hall sheds her bathing suit (and subsequent inhibitions) in a skinny dip scene that transforms into an Esther Williams mini-water ballet.

For a cable TV-type film, there's an absolutely amazing quotient of skin on display. Not to mention the fact you'll walk away armed with the knowledge that, when it comes to lingerie, "You never know what goes with what, until you put them together."

Yogi Berra couldn't have stated it any clearer.

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