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Strip Poker

Strip Poker

Released May 01st, 1995
Running Time 85
Director Mitch Spinelli
Company Pepper Productions
Cast Jordan Lee, Tom Byron, Tess Newheart, Shelby Stevens, Nikki Sinn, Brick Majors, Melissa Monet, Tom Chapman, Tiffany Beane
Critical Rating AAA 1/2
Genre Feature

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Aiming for the intellectual jugular as well as the evocative jocular, Strip Poker frequently scores a simultaneous hit on both lobes.  (Had Samuel Beckett been a pornographer, he'd probably be drawing an inside straight against Harold Pinter instead of Waiting For Godot.)

What, pray tell, has a game of cards to do with existentialist playwrights?  As Shakespeare said, "The play's the thing," and that (along with Jordan Lee) is exactly what off-off, way-off Broadway Director Alex Sanders is attempting to mount - a wacky evening of amatory metaphors, indecent innuendo and flushed straights.  (Best acting nom's loom presciently for Sanders, who unravels like a flea-market hook rug.)

The aforementioned encounter, which actually caps the story as Lee's consolation prize to Sanders for having produced a one-night curtain-closer, is a fairly scorching event.  Proof that anticipation makes the "hard" grow harder, Lee and Sanders engage in a bit of cat 'n mouse foreplay before the usual mish 'n squish, uplifting the scene from the ordinary.  A big spooze-o-la on her kisser goes a long way, too.

"These characters are supposed to be fucked up," Sanders barks at auditioners Tom Byron and Melissa Monet.  "You're from Los Angeles - you've had lots of practice!"  True, for though the actors are neophytes, their experience in the fervent footlights is beyond reproach.  Again, tease and a gorgeous penetration shot will have viewers painting with grease.

Although the Spartan backstage rehearsal environment actually increases believability, the vid occasionally cuts away to "script doctor" Tom Chapman and a number of floozies patrolling his office.  Nikki Sinn discovers the doc's creative juices by way of an expert, deep throat oral examination, and a subsequent ride on his rocket as he spreads her ass cheeks like a breakfast croissant.  (Sadly, her rectal roll goes unbuttered.)  Not the case with Brick Majors and Tess Newheart, whose "theater in the round" receives a rather obscure penetration, though subsequent shots deliver the act.

Those who appreciate a mental tickle with their pickle will love to play Strip Poker.  Raincoaters, however, may exit, stage left - field.  Market accordingly.  A strong box with Shelby Stevens will help.



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