Watching this very pretentious yet entertaining Paul Thomas feature some 24 years after release I had mixed feelings, given its very showy & self-indulgent story structure and editing plus innumerable extraneous sex scenes, but was won over by the time the shaggy-dog tale is belatedly resolved in the final scene.
Biggest shock is that the basic premise and approach is identical to that of Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense", yet Thomas's Adult movie was made and released a year before M. Night's! So who's inspiring who?
SPOILERS:
Many a cryptic scene, most of them filled with beautiful actresses and XXX safe-sex (condoms abound), unfurls confusingly, yet with a strange, fantasy atmosphere developed. We watch an extremely unlikable character Stanton, played by Randy Spears sporting a quite uncharacteristic bushy mustache, wandering around in a mixture of flashbacks and ambiguous scenes where he doesn't belong. Solution to this mystery is the finale's big reveal: he's in purgatory, reliving posthumously his ill-fated marriage to the ethereal Racquel Darrian, Vivid Video contract star. Movie would have been much, much better had director PT taken the subtle approach of Shyamalan to his ghost-like story, rather than so many editing tricks.
Stealing the movie from the rather placid (no acting required) Darrian is of course Asia Carrera, whose role suggested a Guardian Angel/shoulder to cry on for Stanton at first, but turned out to be that of another ghost. Both she and Stanton were killed due to their infidelity, and we see snatches of their marriages a la Bergman, but with considerably more emphasis on hedonistic sex.
An impressive cast mixes many big names, including uninhibited Alexandra Silk and Dee, plus top studs of the day like VInce Vouyer as Racquel's shrink and future husband, and Michael J. Cox & Colt Steele as Randy's co-workers at an auto body shop. Some interesting more obscure femmes like pubescent redhead Ember Haze and talented blonde Claudia Chase as Colt's sexy secretary add to the show's sexiness.