Centerfold, Full length movie (1993)

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Description: AKA: Das Model und der Ficker [German]
First, she was a centerfold model, then she became the world's hottest centerfold photographer. Now, at the peak of her career, Kristina should have it all. Instead, she has doubts. And desires. Big time. Hyapatia Lee stars as Kristina in a brooding, sensual feature film from Bud Lee. Centerfold. All the fun without the staples.
Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. Francesca Le, Nick East
Scene 2. Hyapatia Lee, Steve Drake, TT Boy
Scene 3. Hyapatia Lee, Sheila Stone
Scene 4. Porsche Lynn
Scene 5. Sheila Stone, Marc Wallice
Scene 6. Hyapatia Lee, Randy Spears
Review:
Bud Lee directed this okay vehicle for his wife Hyapatia, its main drawback being Ariel Hart's script which is quite dated 30 years later.

Hyapatia plays a successful adult photographer working for magazines, a sort of Suze Randall. We see in flashback her start in college days as a photography student, auditioning for Steve Drake & T. T. Boy as a model and readily subjecting herself to casting couch sex, anxious to get ahead.

Currently, she has reversed roles, now a tough cookie, running her porn photography sets in a bossy fashion and treating her models the way men treated her on the way up. Hart's screenplay keeps hammering away at the theme that she's adopted bad masculine habits and would be better off to have retained her soft, feminine nature and been kind and loving instead.

Randy Spears, her best (platonic) friend, and Porsche Lynn, her hair stylist on set, keep chiding Hyapatia and ultimately are proven right with the usual happy Hollywood ending.

Bur undercutting this condescending approach is the fact that Hyapatia's character was tough and career-driven in the first place, plus the blatantly biased approach that treats Lee as photographer Kristina's lesbianism as inferior to being a "normal" heterosexual. Obviously, the picture was playing to a male audience, but it is structured as a Romantic Couples film for VCA Platinum and should have risen above that b.s. Variation on male chauvinism.

Lee is sexy as always and capable in dramatic moments. Lynn is excellent in basically a character role (plus a masturbation scene), Francesca Le hardly recognizable as a model who's flat-chested early in FL's career. Quite appealing is a redhead Sheila Stone who, as a new model, creates the movie's central crisis for Lee when Hyapataia falls for her; Stone has a beauty reminding me of current starlet Nickey Huntsman.

The title song, "Centerfold," is extremely poor, even sung off-key.

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