Whitney Hanlon (Robert Logan) works at a Florido rocket launch site. His wife Faye (Lesley Ann Warren) is a community college professor. Rick Monroe (Christopher Atkins) is a womanizer college student. Faye fails him for joking around in his presentation. Her sister Patsy (Deborah Rush) drags her out on a night out to a male strip club. One of the strippers turns out to be his student Ricky the Rocket. Whitney refuses to work for the defense department and gets fired. Their marriage struggles and Ricky starts flirting with her.
This is a total cheese fest. There is no other way to describe it. John G. Avildsen is a very uneven director. He made some of the finest movies of the 80s and some of the worst. This is one of the worst. The movie is setting up something darker but the cheesiness keeps blocking it. Avildsen doesn't know what to make here. He keeps trying to make little unfunny jokes. Logan is not much more than an empty suit. Warren tries her best but it's such a badly written character. Atkins is more of the same. There are some erotica but it's not about that either. Nothing really works in this one.
This is a total cheese fest. There is no other way to describe it. John G. Avildsen is a very uneven director. He made some of the finest movies of the 80s and some of the worst. This is one of the worst. The movie is setting up something darker but the cheesiness keeps blocking it. Avildsen doesn't know what to make here. He keeps trying to make little unfunny jokes. Logan is not much more than an empty suit. Warren tries her best but it's such a badly written character. Atkins is more of the same. There are some erotica but it's not about that either. Nothing really works in this one.