Fragment of Love

Adam & Eve is a reliable source of pay-cable soft-porn programming, as "Fragment of Love" proves with its 135-minute hardcore original generating a plays-well 83-minute soft-core edition. It's deadly dull either way.

Skye Blue is a smooth director, but the performances here are flat. Premise is fantasy masquerading as sci-fi, with doctor Steven St. Croix and his trusty, busty assistant Chanel Preston supposedly able to selectively remove memories from experimental subjects' brains, just so a stupid rom-com can be fashioned.

That means with selective amnesia in the playbook that the two randomly cast principal players AJ Applegate and Aaron Wilcoxxx can have more than one "meet-cute" scene, because their relationship keeps starting up again after they forget. Sounds to me like a dumb Drew Barrymore vehicle, but Skye is not a parody/imitator but likes to do similar but different projects.

Wilcoxxx has been likable in previous roles but doesn't measure up this time, and bubbly AJ's routing gets tired in a hurry. Various rom-com best friends are on hand to hump each other, but the romantic side of the story never catches fire.

The premise of surgically being able to forget some former lover in order not to carry a torch is thoroughly unworkable. The actresses are sexy, particularly Jessa Rhodes, hooking up here with Ryan McLane in her normal-breasts incarnation (more recently she has gone under the knife not to forget stuff but to be bigger up front for the fans, perhaps in anticipation of a MILF career in her near-future). That's not enough to keep one from dozing off during a Showtime After Hours & On Demand screening.