This wildly entertaining vintage lesbian exploitation film rarity tells the story of a pair of lonely housewives who fall into bed together after seeing a lesbian couple holding hands at a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard.
While their husbands travel for their government jobs, Denise (Elizabeth Plumb) falls big-time for her pal Adria (Alisa Courtney). Life is all peaches and cream for the lovebirds: They go horseback riding together, play mini golf and go to the carousel on the Santa Monica Pier.
But when man-loving Adria falls for swarthy hack actor, Jim (John Aprea, who you'll recognize from The Godfather), Denise is left out in the cold -- easy prey for the British seductress Mona (Elizabeth Knowles) who gets her stoned before trying to defile her on a pool table. Jim eventually dumps Adria and the film manages to end on what, for 1975, is a definite up-note: The two women walk into the sunset together.
This vintage melodrama has it all: Contrived dialogue and hilarious early '70s fashion design and sets to die for (avocado shag carpet, anyone?). The original posters trumpeted the film as "The Tragedy of Today's Lonely Housewife," and touted it for its "Insights into a young woman's deep sexual desires!"
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