Steve Michaels is a pornographer I had not previously heard of, but after viewing his top-notch "A Sticky Situation" I will be checking out his handful of other titles. Given that Steve Drake stars in Michaels' videos, and that "Michael" is Drake's real middle name it is safe to guess that our obscure director is actually actor Drake trying his hand behind the camera.
What sets this apart from other circa 1987 videos is quality production, making the shot-on-video feature play like a real movie. Steve Drake stars as an Adult Cinema actor whose private life is actually interesting. In the "lifestyle porn" genre, we see him driving down the road and water skiing with footage that is actually cinema quality.
Nominal plot line is entertaining without getting in the way of the requisite sex scenes as Steve's girlfriends Krista Lane and Jessica Wylde are the most perfect nipple-cone gals of their era.
Key scene has Steve shooting a sex video, raided by the vice cops led by Randy West. The cops are bought off by sex in trade from the porn actresses on set including a pre-breast enlargement Bunny Bleu, and other inside stuff concerns scenes of Steve on the phone arranging bookings and his schedule as a hard-working porno actor.
Happy ending is a bit of a surprise, as Steve decides to quit the Adult biz and marry Lane, going to work for her dad instead. This was mighty refreshing, after having seen dozens (if not hundreds) of porn films where being a porn actor is presented as the greatest calling on Earth.
