Expectations _sitkaman repost.txt
This was the 287th post made to abdec. It was posted by boogle on November 25, 2004.
I don't have any of the original NFO or cover files that might have posted with this film.
Produced in 1977. English. Run time of 1:09:45. DVD size of 4058.48064 MB.
This is a homemade NTSC DVD produced from a VHS tape.
This DVD has been processed through PcgEdit to remove any PUO's and to repair the time maps.
Posted April 20, 2015 by sitkaman.
IAFD Data
http://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title=Expectations/year=1977/expectations.htm
Expectations (1977)
Distributor: TVX
Compilation: No
Director: Arvid Beller
Minutes: 69
All-Girl: No
All-Male: No
Actresses
Delania Raffino [IR]
Cris Cassidy (as Suzette Holland) [Facial]
Actors
Blair Harris (as David Blair)
Jack Wright
Joey Silvera (as Joey Civera)
Scene Breakdowns
Scene 1. Delania Raffino, Blair Harris
Scene 2. Delania Raffino, Joey Silvera
Scene 3. Cris Cassidy, Jack Wright
Scene 4. Delania Raffino, Desiree West
Scene 5. Cris Cassidy, Jack Wright
Scene 6. Delania Raffino, Cris Cassidy
DVD Rear Cover Description:
Margo, a beautiful divorced socialite, was unsatisfied with her life. She needs a change - new excitement - new experiences. She put an ad in a swinger's magazine. Montana, a gorgeous swinger, answers the ad. They meet and resolve to make the change....to experience being lovers with another woman's man....to actually live what were dreams and fantasies in the past. The situations that follow form a totally erotic and sensual story!
IMDb Review
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177763/reviews?ref_=tt_urv
Life Swap
8/10
Author: Dries Vermeulen (Nodriesrespect) from Brugge, Belgium
10 December 2010
*** This review may contain spoilers ***
Splitting leading lady duties, Cassidy's free lovin' hippie chick Montana to demure Delania Raffino's slumming socialite Margo, disillusioned since divorce put an end to her sexually frustrating marriage as she confides in a letter to unseen best friend Lyn, Carter perhaps, instigating an intriguing link between Weston's miniature scale psychological potboilers. An ad in the classifieds throws the women together but who will come out the worse for wear ? Margo as Montana has to contend with her alter ego's steady stream of casual sex partners who are never more than a phone call away, her favorite bit o'rough Joey Donovan (Joey Silvera) turning up unannounced as menace melts into liquid lust. On the other hand, Montana as Margo seems to have drawn the short straw when faced with Margo's psycho bro' Vincent, another stellar turn from the ever dependable Jack Wright. At the risk of short-circuiting the whole set-up, Montana throws him for a loop by coming on to him completely in character as his sister, prefiguring the sort of sublimated incest fantasy Sam would further explore in HOTLINE and VISTA VALLEY PTA. Montana's innate skill at adapting herself to unforeseen circumstances mark her out as the puppeteer in the women's symbiotic relationship, cruelly calling on Margo to inform her that she has just bedded her brother ! Understandably distraught, Margo turns up on her doorstep to call of the game, only to have the door slammed in her face. Realizing she has lost a battle unknowingly entered into, Margo submits to Montana's every whim, receiving a Sapphic introduction at the experienced hands of gal pal Jenny, portrayed with customary casual elegance by gorgeous black actress Desiree West, to pave the way for Montana's vampirically draining her of the last vestiges of resistance and free will at film's haunting climax. Interpreted either literally or metaphorically, the major downer outcome remains the same.
Anticipating the couples film phenomenon at a time when porn was still primarily occupied with the hydraulics of male sexual performance, the customary cum shot testifying as "evidence" of documented "reality", EXPECTATIONS exhaustively pays heed to its far more elusive counterpart in female erotic pleasure, all but invisible to the naked eye. Movie opens on one of the most sensuous scenes ever recorded in adult as Margo's made love to by an unnamed man (stalwart Blair Harris) who's perhaps emblematic of all men - presumably not her ex-husband with whom she never attained connubial bliss as she informs Lyn in voice-over - as discreetly employed optical tricks alert audiences to the assumed imaginary nature of the encounter. Even Silvera's (initial) aggressive nastiness only serves as a Trojan horse to enforce Margo to accept those pleasurable physical sensations she has thus far for whatever reason denied herself. Shot by the same technical team Sam had on most of his few day wonders, their low key creativity shows a marked improvement over earlier collaborations, attesting to what had clearly become well-oiled production machinery by this stage of their mutual acquaintance.
As befits the industry's consummate actor's director, the uniformly excellent six person cast proves the movie's trump card. Cassidy compensates for the occasional shaky line reading with a voracious sexuality that would serve her well throughout an on again, off again career that would grow to span two decades. As a trivia note, still looking for an alias that would stick, she was billed under her character name here of "Montana" on her subsequent big breakthrough in Bob Chinn's CANDY STRIPERS. Credited as "Barbara Bills" on at least half of a dozen or so performances, smoldering dark-haired beauty Delania Raffino remains something of a mystery whose disinterest in the pursuit of carnal cinematic greatness can be the sole explanation of her status as industry footnote instead of icon. A personable presence in both Alex de Renzy's minor SUMMER HEAT and Charles De Santos's baffling EXTREME CLOSE-UP, she rarely attained the heights of audience empathy she did under Spinelli's patient tutelage. Character actor Jack Wright did most of his limited yet distinguished adult work for Sam, with the occasional sidestep for Alan B. Colberg on ONE WAY AT A TIME and NAKED AFTERNOON, and was rumored to abstain from any "active" involvement. Though he definitely did perform with Jesie St. James in EASY, fragmented editing suggests that he probably was "stunt cocked" on this occasion.
Synopsis found on pornBB
"Expectations" tells the lucrative story of two women...one, a bored and sexually frustrated socialite, and the other, a free-spirited hippie type...who via a newspaper ad, conspire to change places with each other (...even though they hardly look alike), in an effort to hopefully venture into new and stimulating sexual realms. They set certain ground rules...though often, as the events here unfold, those rules get bent, or even outright broken, which seems to add to the spice of this particular erotic and fantasy-driven venture. Although much more emphasis is place on the hapless socialite's point of view, and the varied sexual revelations SHE encounters (...or, should I say, stumbles into), the heated love-making scenes, as the film transitions back and forth between the two women in the film are quite arousing, and passionately enacted. The women themselves are modestly attractive & sexy, and the men they engage, for the most part, come across as amusingly stereotypical, pulpish 'rogues'...one, an almost rape-inclined 'filthy animal'...another, an eye-patched brother of the socialite, engaging a fantasy of his own, in the midst of this unconventional trade-off...and a third, not a guy at all, but to the socialite's shock, a lusciously dominant ebony beauty, ready to 'do it all'. In the end, does this covert, perspective-shattering ploy work?? Will both women willingly submit and resign themselves to their separate, albeit interchanged fates, as a result of their oh-so tantalizing, sensuous and inner-revealing, fantasy-driven adventure??
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