The Night Before, Full (1987)

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Description: This director is running into setback after setback when he tries to get his vision off the ground for a skin flick. First, he thought he had found the perfect girl for the shoot, and then the camera crew walked off the set! So now it's up to his secretary to save the day! She uses her perky tits and tight twat to make things happen! She calls her friends in the business and auditions them herself for some of the hottest lesbian and group scenes you will ever see!
Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. Rachel Ryan, Joey Silvera
Scene 2. Renee Summers, Billy Dee, F.M. Bradley, Randy West
Scene 3. Keisha, Vanessa Cole, Billy Dee
Scene 4. Rachel Ashley, Randy West
Scene 5. Keisha, Rachel Ashley
Scene 6. Vanessa Cole, John Leslie
Review:
Self-reflexive porn movie is a bit too inside for most audiences, as it strives to be (comedically) about the porn movie business but lacks any semblance of sincerity.
I attribute the failure here as likely caused by two contradictory personnel behind the movie: John T. Bone, a director who was more comfortable with gonzo crap (see so many of his cheapo movies) while dallying with mainstream R-rated (and pretty good) movies on the side, while producer Jerome Tanner was dedicated to story-oriented material.
Tongue-in-cheek story deals with porn producer John Leslie as Joel Cairo (a movie buff reference to Peter Lorre's memorable character in the classic film "The Maltese Falcon"), working on a pet project that is autobiographical, based on his own past sex life. He loses his leading lady (Renee Summers) when she finds out that she can't have a double for explicit sex scenes, and then his leading man (to play Cairo), Randy West, who is also a key investor in the project.
West drops out because he believes Cairo's wish to make a romantic porn movie is out of touch with audiences' love of gonzo, all-sex content, and that he wants to give a gonzo performance, nothing mushy. The scene where he tells Cairo off and walks out on him demonstrates what's wrong here - we have a comedy that is romantic in its orientation, and even has very brief, concise sex scenes -just what West's character objects to as blatantly uncommercial.
The comedy here isn't funny or incisive. Several porn scenes are very poor fantasies with execrable special effects -more incompetent than artistic. So one is left with a schizophrenic movie -not the John T. Bone gross/gonzo movies but more like a failed attempt at artistry. Cast including Leslie give sincere performances, but the storytelling is facetious and often insulting.
Sole positive element emerging here is casting actresses with big, natural breasts, a relief from the fake silicone content of its era. Even here there's a miscalculation: casting Rachel Ashley and Rachel Ryan in the primary roles, when they are actresses so similar looking as to create confusion that is counter-productive. Keisha in a supporting role easily steals their thunder.
And what the hell does the title "The Night Before" mean in terms of the story?

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