Expectations, Full (1977)

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Description: Wealthy socialite, Margo yearns for a change in her life in the wake of a divorce. Bored and unhappy, Margo decides to swap lives with free-spirited swinger Montana. However, things ultimately don't go as planned after Montana becomes involved with Margo's creepy brother Vincent.
Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. Delania Raffino, Blair Harris
Scene 2. Delania Raffino, Joey Silvera
Scene 3. Cris Cassidy, Jack Wright
Scene 4. Delania Raffino, Desiree West
Scene 5. Cris Cassidy, Jack Wright
Scene 6. Delania Raffino, Cris Cassidy
Review:
The great director Anthony Spinelli made this minor but highly effective film that I saw theatrically back in the day, and was pleasantly reacquainted with via an Alpha Blue Archives 3-fer DVD reissue.

Delania Raffino voices-over the story in the form of a letter to her friend Lyn (not in the cast) explaining how her life has drastically changed during her 2-month hiatus.

She has switched identities with busty blonde Chris Cassidy (a striking sexual performance early in the star's career). Delania plays Margo and Cassidy plays Montana, but for the duration of the movie they use and are called by each other's names.

This familiar switcheroo premise is not used for the usual rom-com humorous situations, but instead Spinelli maintains a dead-serious tone, reminiscent of the groundbreaking work of Gerard Damiano in that vein ("Story of Joanna", "Memories Within Miss Aggie"). There is a scene of comic relief, but the emphasis on drama bears fruit in giving some power to his examination of themes ordinarily handled glibly.

For example, the search for identity is encapsuled in the women's attempts to role-play in each other's identities, resulting in a remarkable conclusion where Delania becomes a submissive, surrendering herself to the more ebullient Cassidy. Margo's brother shows up unexpectedly and while at first angry at Montana for taking over his sister's life is easily seduced by the blonde beauty, soon role-playing at incest in a way that is far more effective than 21st Century porn's emphasis on step-siblings having sex.

Desiree West (under whose name the movie has been reissue on DVD, for commercial reasons) does a fine job as a friend of Montana who encourages Margo to get lost in the Montana role (and have sex with her), while Joey SIlvera is his usual bad-guy self, forcing Margo to have sex with him (but she loves it!).

As long as you don't have expectations of seeing a classic, this is a satisfying piece of vintage Adult Cinema.

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