Summer Of Laura Review

Reviewed by KayParker33  on  2/28/2010

Along a lonely beach on a summer colony off the Long Island coast, a man walks slowly, reliving a summer, the summer of Laura, when he was 19. Richie has a friend on the island, Gene, who is gregarious and mischievous. Like the more sensitive Richie, he too, was 19. During that summer of awakening he loses his youthful desires and develops his manhood. On the way to the movies, Richie literally bumps into Laura, an older woman who lives nearby. She asks him if he'll help her with some chores the following day. He is totally flustered, but agrees. Richie goes to her house and after knocking on the door, and getting no response, enters. On the floor he finds a crumpled telegram which reads, "Your husband, Bob Hayes, has been killed in action." Laura appears, lonely and vulnerable. She moves toward him in a gesture of human contact. They slowly begin to dance. "That summer we lost five Frisbees, saved a girl from a silly snake, saw our first skin flick, and I lost my Laura." The sea rises.

With a plot synopsis like that, one would think that this is a carefully crafted, maybe even beautiful couples movie. One would be wrong. Production values are next to nothing, the movie is on film, but shot like very clumsily and with poor lighting and focus.

Any hope of a couples movie are probably dashed during a movie theater scene where the movie in question shows, among other things, a woman pushing eggs out of her pussy. Any hoping for more hardcore action like this, however, will be disappointed as well, as the rest of the film tries to follow the above-mentioned plot, but without any heart or even mediocre acting. The woman Laura does not act in the least bit distraught upon finding out about her husband's death, but merely fucks the teenager in question. Not out of loneliness or vulnerability, as the plot synopsis might want you to believe, but it seems that the movie fails on just about every level.

I coudln't help but think during the movie, "what a great plot idea! I wonder what the people who made LEGEND OF LADY BLUE could have done with this script?" Anyone who has any questions about how hot the sex is should re-read the last line. I WAS THINKING ABOUT ANOTHER STUDIO MAKING A BETTER PLOT WHILE WATCHING A PORN MOVIE!

Most of the sex shots are randomly broken up, where in every shot there is a different position, not in a good way, but like they used 3 different cameras but didn't know how to edit them together, so the results are a mish-mash of one shot, then a break, then back. It just doesn't make any sense. A porn movie does not have to make sense to be any good, but this was to the point of distraction. Anyone looking for a movie with great sex scenes with decent acting is much better off going with something like the aforementioned LEGEND OF LADY BLUE, and leaving this one alone.