What can I say? I'm on a mission of tracking down most of Don Johnson's movies he made before becoming famous and I came across this one. I thought it was made for TV, but I was stunned to see naked people and a frontal nude by Johnson almost at the beginning of this flick.
It's very much a product of its era tackling topics such as sexual revolution, free love, the institution of marriage and possessiveness within a couple. They even talk about group marriages.
Don Johnson plays one of the students at the Harrad College who are involved in an one-month experiment in which they are paired with other students of the oppposite sex. They don't know each other, have been assigned by the couple of psychologists-sexologists leading this investigation, a sort of rip off of Masters and Johnson played by James Whitmore and Tippi Hedren. They're expected to start a sexual relationship and explore the dynamics of love, jealousy, exclusivity and honesty.
Stanley (Johnson) is paired with Sheila (Laurie Walters), a conservative, sweet and virginal girl who has self-esteem and shyness issues and wants to develop a loving relationship before starting to have sex. She wants to "make it right". So she is the quintessential "good girl". Sheila falls almost immediately for Stanley (and who wouldn't?, Don Johnson looks beautiful here), but Stanley has compulsive sexual encounters as if he drinks a bottle of cola and tosses it to the side. "No strings attached" or "as many as he can" should be his motto. Stanley is not capable of feeling love, but only lust. He doesn't want to connect at a personal level. Although, Sheila seems to touch something inside of him.
It's not the best movie, but it was entertaining...Sometimes I think how is it that the actors didn't burst into laughing during the naked yoga scene? However, it has a charm. It's a rarity.
I felt awkward watching Tippi Hedren getting hit on by her future son-in-law Don Johnson (I think this is the movie where he met Melanie Griffith. She worked as an extra).
It's very much a product of its era tackling topics such as sexual revolution, free love, the institution of marriage and possessiveness within a couple. They even talk about group marriages.
Don Johnson plays one of the students at the Harrad College who are involved in an one-month experiment in which they are paired with other students of the oppposite sex. They don't know each other, have been assigned by the couple of psychologists-sexologists leading this investigation, a sort of rip off of Masters and Johnson played by James Whitmore and Tippi Hedren. They're expected to start a sexual relationship and explore the dynamics of love, jealousy, exclusivity and honesty.
Stanley (Johnson) is paired with Sheila (Laurie Walters), a conservative, sweet and virginal girl who has self-esteem and shyness issues and wants to develop a loving relationship before starting to have sex. She wants to "make it right". So she is the quintessential "good girl". Sheila falls almost immediately for Stanley (and who wouldn't?, Don Johnson looks beautiful here), but Stanley has compulsive sexual encounters as if he drinks a bottle of cola and tosses it to the side. "No strings attached" or "as many as he can" should be his motto. Stanley is not capable of feeling love, but only lust. He doesn't want to connect at a personal level. Although, Sheila seems to touch something inside of him.
It's not the best movie, but it was entertaining...Sometimes I think how is it that the actors didn't burst into laughing during the naked yoga scene? However, it has a charm. It's a rarity.
I felt awkward watching Tippi Hedren getting hit on by her future son-in-law Don Johnson (I think this is the movie where he met Melanie Griffith. She worked as an extra).