Back Against The Wall

It may sound like typical sexploitation fare — the kind of stuff that once might have played the bottom of a grindhouse triple bill — but 26-year-old Midwestern filmmaker James Fotopoulos's curious experimental film is anything but. Middle-aged, overweight Levey (Martin Shannon) doesn't like the fact that his girlfriend, June (Debbie Mulcahy), models lingerie at the Fun House, a rough-and-tumble gentleman's club where leggy girls cavort in lacy underthings for the enjoyment of the clientele. While June's at work, Levey drinks, plays pingpong with his friend Ed (Ernie E. Frantz) and reads. In fact, Levey is a speed reader who can plow through a book in a mat...