Dreams Come True

Stuart Canterbury seems to have put his heart into writing and directing this XXX story about auditioning for a movie part and the power imbalance between the director and the talent, but I wasn't quite convinced.

The sticking point is that he has followed a common porn practice of pretending that a real Hollywood movie is involved, not porn. So the scenes have the porn actors portraying mainstream actors but they come off as, let's face it, porn talent -a fact emphasized by their spending more time in explicit sex action than dramatic acting.

Jerry Butler is a case in point -he overacts quite a bit as a struggling actor pitted against a friend who is successful in the business, Tom Chapman, and their rivalry (as well as the final choice of director Randy Spears) is very corny. Similarly, Taylor Wane is pitted against Danielle Rogers: Wane sleeps (reluctantly, for obvious reasons) with the project's producer Ron Jeremy (I found their sex scene hard to watch due to his anti-erotic presence) to try to get the role, while Danielle is Spears' ex-lover, something of a conflict of interests.

A flashback of Danielle in jail on a drug charge, forced to have sex by lesbian cellmate Kim Wilde is harmed by hearing the director's voice on the soundtrack feeding Kim directions.

Watching the cast pour their little hearts out is unusual for porn at this level, and ultimately I didn't believe their acting. One bit of irony, perhaps intentional, but in any event glaring, has the final "sincere" sex scene taking place on the same casting couch Ron Jeremy used with Taylor.