Underplayed Gems

Pretty Peaches (1978)

Pretty Peaches poster
Directed by
Alex de Renzy
Genre
pornographic film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
NC-17
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 40 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A young woman named Peaches is a cheerfully carefree person who gets into a car accident after her father's wedding. She wakes up with amnesia and two men take advantage of her, then offer to help her. The movie keeps a light and playful tone despite its subject matter.

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What happens

Pretty Peaches is a 1978 American pornographic comedy film directed by Alex de Renzy and released during the Golden Age of Porn. The film stars Desireé Cousteau as Peaches, described as "a daffy carefree female who cheerfully plunges through life without any worries." In the film, she has a car accident after attending the wedding of her father (John Leslie) and is rendered unconscious. She is found by two men who take advantage of her, before offering to help her when it becomes apparent that she has amnesia. Pretty Peaches was likely influenced by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's Candy, itself often perceived as a homage to Voltaire's Candide. While the film features sexual violence, including lesbian rape and a forced enema in a public rest-room – a sequence that was excised from most video releases – the film's tongue-in-cheek attitude keeps it up-beat. The Astronics/Telecine, Ltd. VHS release of the film is un-cut with the forced enema scene intact. Cousteau received the Adult Film Association of America Best Actress award in 1978 for her performance in the movie. The success of the film spawned two sequels, both directed by de Renzy: Pretty Peaches 2 (1988) and Pretty Peaches and the Quest (1991) with Siobhan Hunter and Keisha in the title role of the 1988 and 1991 films, respectively. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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