Casual Sex? movie storyline. Stacy (Lea Thompson) has a promiscuous past and, after learning of the AIDS epidemic, she wants to find a guy whom she knows is clean. She convinces her childhood friend Melissa (Victoria Jackson) to go to a health spa (or resort) for singles so that they can hopefully each find the man of their dreams. As a concierge gift, they receive a basket filled with condoms.
At the spa, Stacy meets Nick (Stephen Shellen), a struggling musician whom she is taken with, and also encounters Vinny, aka the Vin Man (Andrew Dice Clay), an annoying Italian-American man from New Jersey whom she tries to avoid. At the resort’s International Night, the men and women all take miniature flags of various countries and put them in plunger-shaped hats, then meet the person with the identical national flag. After becoming demoralized by a bad experience at the flag party, Melissa writes a letter that she leaves for Stacy saying she is returning to LA.
However, Melissa connects with a spa staff member, Jamie (Jerry Levine), who has taken an apparent liking to her and yet who is very sweet, respectful and supportive of her. Some days later, when they are intimate, she experiences her very first orgasm. Meanwhile, Stacy finds Melissa’s letter to her and, thinking that Melissa has left the resort alone in frustration, immediately returns to LA herself via the 2:00pm bus, not knowing that Melissa has remained at the resort.
Stacy had taken Nick with her back to LA and, once there, falls back into old behavior patterns of being a crutch for men. She lets Nick move in with her to try to get his fledgling music career off the ground. However, Stacy soon realizes that Nick’s quirky habits (e.g., not having a checking account or a credit card, carrying all his personal belongings in plastic trash bags), idiosyncratic ways of thinking (not having his life together at this age and stage of life), and his narcissism are things that she cannot adapt to.
She realizes that she actually doesn’t really like him or see him as the man she thought he was back at the resort. Upon learning that Melissa is back at the resort and never even left, she hurriedly rents a pink Cadillac and drives all the way back, where she accidentally walks in on Melissa in bed with Jamie. Outside the room, Melissa tells Stacy about Jamie and how they have bonded with one another. Stacey is relieved that Melissa is in good spirits now and is thrilled that she and Jamie have found each other.
Casual Sex? is a 1988 American comedy film about two female friends who go to a vacation resort in search of perfect men. It was directed by Geneviève Robert, and stars Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Stephen Shellen, Jerry Levine, Mary Gross, Valerie Breiman, Peter Dvorsky, David Sergeant, Cynthia Phillips, Don Woodard, Danny Breen and Susan Ann Connor.
Casual Sex? (1988)
Directed by: Geneviève Robert
Starring: Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Stephen Shellen, Jerry Levine, Mary Gross, Valerie Breiman, Peter Dvorsky, David Sergeant, Cynthia Phillips, Don Woodard, Danny Breen, Susan Ann Connor
Screenplay by: Wendy Goldman, Judy Toll
Production Design by: Randy Ser
Cinematography by: Rolf Kestermann
Film Editing by: Donn Cambern, Sheldon Kahn
Costume Design by: Grania Preston
Set Decoration by: Julie Kaye Fanton
Art Direction by: Phil Dagort
Music by: Van Dyke Parks
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: April 22, 1988
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