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Laramie Movie Scope:
Confessions of a Young American Housewife

Mom comes for a visit where married daughter is a swinger in a foursome

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by Patrick Ivers, Film Critic
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(1974) Perhaps the best-known of the late director/writer Joseph W. Sarno's soft-porn films, this erotic adventure (crude yet occasionally comical) involves two married couples who've formed a swinging foursome - Carole (Rebecca Brooke) and Eddie Mullen (David Hausman) and their next-door neighbors, Anna (Chris Jordan) and Pete (Eric Edwards) - before Carole's mother, Jennifer Robinson (Jennifer Welles), arrives for a two-week visit.

Initially 20-year-old Carole is worried about her mother's interference with their evening orgies, but Anna says: "Don't be so uptight." The one-time "Young American Housewife of 1963," Jennifer, a single buxom babe at 37, makes a strong impression on everyone. "Everybody goes for Mama," says Carole, who has always felt in the shadow of her mother: "They always did."

Echoing The Graduate, Pete comes on to her in the kitchen - "Hi, Mrs Robinson" - where she bakes cream pies for which Anna develops a passion. "There's something about her," Anna confides to Carole: "She's sexy."

Realizing her mother's unease with their spouse-swapping, free-love attitude, Carole explains: "I'm a very hot, horny girl." In need of sexual attention herself, Jennifer seduces Ken, the grocery-store delivery boy, while gamely indulging in her daughter's sex games, such as going along with Carole and Anna (wearing only silky negligees) to Shandara's home for an evening of girl-on-girl mutual masturbation. While the women eagerly experiment and explore intramurally, the boys remain exclusively intermural players.

But eventually more than pleasurable vibrations excite the participants: deeper feelings take hold, threatening to destroy the civilized, cooperative arrangement of attractions without jealousies.

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