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Heavy Breathing

Vivid makes some great movies . . . but they also turn out a fair number of merely adequate features. There’s nothing wrong with those movies, but they tend to blur into an unambitious mishmash in memory. Heavy Breathing falls pretty much into that camp — not bad, but not great, unless it happens to hit your particular buttons. Cassidey stars as a phone sex operator, so there’s some nice dirty talk, which makes it a little more noteworthy than it would be otherwise. Amusingly, she even lies to her clients about where she is, what she’s wearing, and what she’s doing to herself — just like a real phone sex operator! Trust director Paul Thomas to inject such an amusing bit of verismilitude into even a minor feature. The plot is pretty thin, with Derrick Pierce playing a hunky cop eavesdropping on phone sex lines, who becomes obsessed with Cassidey after listening to her do her work. He arranges to meet her, but they don’t actually do anything — Cassidey only sleeps with other women in this film. Derrick’s scene with Penny Flame is great, though. She plays his good, giving, and game girlfriend, who does her best to please him in the bedroom. But she’s no good at talking dirty — he wants her to be more like Cassidey, of course, but it doesn’t turn her on a bit. He grows increasingly frustrated with her poor performance, and has an elaborate lesbian fantasy to keep himself interested while he fucks her. They both perform the roles well, and it’s a flash of real characterization that elevates the whole film. My ultimate reaction to this one is pretty lukewarm, though. If you’re a Cassidey devotee (or you like beautiful brunettes in general, since most of the women here are dark-haired) or you really like dirty talk or cop uniforms (or both combined), check it out.

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