Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Fantastic!

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Irene (Joan Severance) is a stay-at-home housewife with a young son. Billy (Billy Zane) is part of the city crew trimming the trees in front of her house. Irene becomes fascinated with the hunky worker. While her husband and son are out of town, she sneaks into Billy's trailer. She is stuck as Billy's girlfriend Grace drives away to remote Lake Consequence. The repressed Irene begins an affair with Billy and Grace.Back in the early 90s, producer Zalman King made a living with these erotica late night TV movies and shows. Joan Severance is a statuette woman and a capable actress. Billy Zane is also a workable actor but neither of them are particularly great. The story is a bad romance novel. There are naked beautiful bodies in this softcore porn. It's extremely cheesy and impossible to sit all the way through. It's almost mind numbing. However the intention is not necessarily to be great cinema.

I saw this movie on VHS shortly after its release as a confused and easily aroused young teenage boy, and I was immediately turned on by the mindless sense of free love and intimacy that this film has throughout its entirety. Sadly very few films like Lake Consequence get made any more, due to the overkill of censorship "experts" and the influence of both family value and religious fundamentalist groups in government policies. I look back on it from time to time as the very first time that I realized how erotic and arousing it is for a man (and indeed all straight men) to watch two women kissing and making love in such an innocent way. The scene in the Chinese Bath House is by far one of the most erotic 2 women/1 man threesomes that I have ever scene in a Hollywood film. When Billy leaves May and Joan together, they kiss passionately and then briefly you see their breasts/nipples pressed together as they are beautifully locked in a lesbian embrace. What would have made this movie perfect would have been another sex scene where Billy was not involved at all, as its been proved that more than 40% of all male sexual fantasies don't involve any men at all :-). I recommend this film to just about any man who is in need of some visual comfort whether he be in a relationship with a woman or not.

Erotic thriller starring Joan Severance anyone? What would you imagine the film would be like? Cheesy? Jazz music with smooth sax playing over the numerous pointless sex scenes? Well that's what I assumed but that is by no means what means what the film is like. It has a strange atmosphere to it and the build up to Severances infidelity is intriguing. The film is well shot and there's a sense of actual artistry and this never resorts to the cheesy clichés we have come to know from Joan and her soft core peers Shannon Tweed and Shannon Whirry. What I also really liked was the score from George Clinton. It helps that he has a bit of class unlike many musicians working in low budget movies. Clinton has done many scores for big screen movies and has a good pedigree for a movie this size, and his score is interesting and atmospheric.Overall this was surprisingly watchable. It has some intrigue without being overly entertaining. It is certainly the best thing I have seen from the gorgeous Severance. ***

Interesting setup. Although the unrated version comes to us for only one reason... it does make a valid attempt to become more than a sexual experience. It does have flaws, but it has a plot, that many movies of the sort don't have. (ex. Fatal Pursuit)