sex, lies and videotape

i'm not quite sure how i came across this film. perhaps browsing through instant play on netflix mixed with serious ennui due to the fact that i'm broke as hell until i get my stipend check. so, after eating samosas for dinner i watched this.

lately, i've been really interested in films from the late 80s/ early 90s (some a bit more obscure than clueless---although i do love clueless). Anywho, the movie is from 1989. if you watch it, pay particularly close attention to certain details. for example, one of the main characters, graham, mentions the fact that he is impotent. well, this is pre-viagra----being that it was introduced to the mass market in the late 90s. it is the pre-cell phone era: not one person in the film has one or mentions one. i love how everyone uses land lines. the stealthy and scandalous calls made to and from different characters are quite impressive. ann and john are married, but ann doesn't like sex. she'd rather talk to her therapist about how she cannot help but think of where all the garbage will go when there is too much for the earth to hold. to make up for his wife's pitiful sex drive, john is having an illegitimate affair with ann's artsy pre-hipster sister, cynthia. you'll have to watch the movie to fully understand the twisted plot.