Everyone in LOVER'S LEAP speaks in the hushed, confidential manner of salespeople in cosmetics infomercials. Unlike the hard-sell ads, soft-spoken makeup pitches seductively whisper to the audience in presumed-confidential tones. Here, the actors are selling sex to the
viewer--therapeutic, homogenized, prettified sex for the masses. This is less a movie than a "sex-mercial" with dramatic interruptions.
Tired of his clinging attitude and sexual timidity, provocative Johanna (Carrie Westcott) begs for a time-out from her callow lover Nick (Michael Jay). Meanwhile, Nick's estranged father, Alex (Moe Justini), resents the efforts of his brother/architectural partner...
Released:
1995
Rated:
R
Length:
82 mins