Watching innumerable Vivid and Wicked features from a decade or two ago, I have noticed a pattern whereby supporting players often upstage the contract stars with fine performances. Perhaps this is inevitable, since the assembly line methods of that era certainly wore out the freshness of workhorse stars -at a time when videos & later DVDs were golden.
The script credited to Bryan O'Cain, whose only IMDb listing is for a mainstream Big Foot adventure video, has a germ of an interesting premise, but Jonathan Morgan's routine treatment creates an overall snoozer.
Randy Spears, way too heavy in his acting for the role (which required a rom-com specialist like Eric Masterson, ideally) is successful working lady Steele's useless husband, out of work and out of luck. Steele is having an affair with Brad Armstrong (another Wicked contract guy, often working with Spears & Morgan -usually as director) and concocts a plot to hire a woman to seduce Spears, giving her grounds to divorce the lug.
That's really all there is to this rather padded affair, but fortunately Morgan cast April as the other woman and she steals the show.
Unlike the other venal characters, she is sympathetic throughout, right down to her predictable change of heart, advising Sydnee in the later reels to abandon the project and go back to her hubby. Armstrong is a 1-dimensional cad; Steele boring and not even worth hissing at for her villainy. Beauties like Kylie Ireland and Lezley Zen are wasted in the mandatory sex filler that usually betrays the phony narratives of these projects. Nowadays, with Vivid virtually gone from the scene, Wicked issues many a stupid "all-sex" DVD, while the quality of its features directed by the likes of Morgan, Armstrong and Stormy has declined precipitously.
Comic relief is provided by Anthony Crane, in a non-sex role as the talkative Russian building manager where Spears lives, his acting heavily coached by Morgan (as seen in the BTS short subject) in the type of role Jonathan used to play himself. Title emerges as ironic, in that other than April's ebullient, full of life turn, nothing is right about this junker.
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