Director Jim Enright, teaming with Jonathan Morgan and Steven St. Croix, had a laudable string of hits for Wicked Pictures back in the day including "Western Nights" and "Haunted Nights", but their nostalgic comedy "Tender Loving Care" wasn't one of them.
With an insider's screenplay by Morgan and rather embarrassing overacting by him and St. Croix, the film fails to conjure up the expected laughs. Its all-star cast does deliver solid sexual content, but one wonders what might have been.
I'm 20 years older than Morgan and St. Croix in real life, and their impressions on screen of old fogeys is intentionally ridiculous, making the great Gabby Hayes of Western fame seem subtle in his crotchetiness. Add in T. T. Boy as the third pal living at the Porn Folks Retirement Home they have basically a non-actor who adds little to the show.
Morgan's script gimmick is to present all the boy/girl sex scenes as flashbacks, thus avoiding having the movie turn into grandpa porn. Constantly arguing and insulting each other Morgan and St. Croix recall a shoot back in the day when each one claims, in memory that they bailed out the other one for inability to get hard and do a scene. We get to see both versions, with the great Kylie Ireland as their leading lady, styled blonde in this incarnation. No less than Jenna Jameson, early in her career, is effectively unglamorized as that movie's no-nonsense director, showing off a sweater girl's physique but strictly fully clothed and NonSex.
T. T.'s memory is of a shoot in New Orleans with two hot women, this flashback scene having Enright as their director. He delivers anal sex with stacked blonde J. R. Carrington in a threeseme with fiery redhead Patricia Kennedy.
Trying to take care of the old boys are two lovely nurses, Misty Rain and P. J. Sparxx. They have a lesbian scene in the bathtub together, and then Misty regales the horny old goats with a recollection of her own, only it's from yesterday when she and boyfriend Tom Byron enjoyed outdoor sex together.
Perhaps what went awry here is that Morgan, in concocting his script for the project is hardly the right man for the job. His career doesn't stretch back to the early 1970s and in 1995 the pioneer veterans of that era weren't very old: Harry Reems for example was born the same year as I, and was only 47 when "Tender Loving Care" was shot. Certainly some pornographers were old men by '95, but not the talent. The same sort of project made today, starring some survivors like Herschel Savage and Eric Edwards would make more sense, not need hokey/unconvincing makeup and could have some heart to go along with the chuckles.
With an insider's screenplay by Morgan and rather embarrassing overacting by him and St. Croix, the film fails to conjure up the expected laughs. Its all-star cast does deliver solid sexual content, but one wonders what might have been.
I'm 20 years older than Morgan and St. Croix in real life, and their impressions on screen of old fogeys is intentionally ridiculous, making the great Gabby Hayes of Western fame seem subtle in his crotchetiness. Add in T. T. Boy as the third pal living at the Porn Folks Retirement Home they have basically a non-actor who adds little to the show.
Morgan's script gimmick is to present all the boy/girl sex scenes as flashbacks, thus avoiding having the movie turn into grandpa porn. Constantly arguing and insulting each other Morgan and St. Croix recall a shoot back in the day when each one claims, in memory that they bailed out the other one for inability to get hard and do a scene. We get to see both versions, with the great Kylie Ireland as their leading lady, styled blonde in this incarnation. No less than Jenna Jameson, early in her career, is effectively unglamorized as that movie's no-nonsense director, showing off a sweater girl's physique but strictly fully clothed and NonSex.
T. T.'s memory is of a shoot in New Orleans with two hot women, this flashback scene having Enright as their director. He delivers anal sex with stacked blonde J. R. Carrington in a threeseme with fiery redhead Patricia Kennedy.
Trying to take care of the old boys are two lovely nurses, Misty Rain and P. J. Sparxx. They have a lesbian scene in the bathtub together, and then Misty regales the horny old goats with a recollection of her own, only it's from yesterday when she and boyfriend Tom Byron enjoyed outdoor sex together.
Perhaps what went awry here is that Morgan, in concocting his script for the project is hardly the right man for the job. His career doesn't stretch back to the early 1970s and in 1995 the pioneer veterans of that era weren't very old: Harry Reems for example was born the same year as I, and was only 47 when "Tender Loving Care" was shot. Certainly some pornographers were old men by '95, but not the talent. The same sort of project made today, starring some survivors like Herschel Savage and Eric Edwards would make more sense, not need hokey/unconvincing makeup and could have some heart to go along with the chuckles.