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Sugarbabies:
A Cautionary Tale
AAAA 1/2
Pretty Dirty/Girlfriends Films
Director: Stills by Alan
Cast: Penny Pax, Jade Nile, Chanel
Preston, Jaclyn Taylor, Rebel Lynn,
Jessy Jones, Xander Corvus, James
Deen. 120 Min.
Category: Drama
The first movie released under the
new Pretty Dirty imprint—the
boy/girl sibling to girl/girl studio
Girlsway—Sugarbabies comes out
of the gate strong. The team who
made the top-notch all-girl movies
The Turning and The Business of
Women—director Stills By Alan and
producer Bree Mills—again prove
that they have a fresh approach to
erotic storytelling and the technical
skills to capture stunning imagery.
Sugarbabies is one chatty erotic
movie—and that’s totally OK in
this corner, especially given the
fine job the actors do with their
dialogue. The movie is a meditation
on so-called sugar dating, where
young women with rock-bottom
credit ratings and high expectations
fuel their lifestyle by serving as arm
candy for the wealthy and powerful.
Sure, it sounds good—but note
Preston to help him heap hardcore indignities
on poor Penny, whose pale skin shows every
pinch and slap. At the end, when she gets
her “allowance,” relief floods across her face,
followed by a stricken look at the threshold she’s
that subtitle. Indeed, these women learn it’s best to proceed with caution.
Penny Pax, bemoaning the state of her bank account, gets introduced to
sugar dating by Jade Nile, who’s counting the trips she’s taken instead of her
unpaid bills. Pax takes a little hike with Nile, who shows her photos from her
trip to Tokyo and talks about her relationship with rock star Xander Corvus:
“I take care of his needs, and he takes care of mine.” Pax decides she’s game
... even though boyfriend Jessy Jones blows up at her. “I’m making a sacrifice
for us,” she pleads.
But what Pax doesn’t know yet is that when you sell yourself, the buyer
is under no obligation to treat you like a human being. Client James Deen
dispenses with the social niceties, bringing in strap-on-wearing wife Chanel
just crossed.
Once she’s home, boyfriend Jessy is there to
rub her face in the emotional distress with the
help of “real” prostitute Jaclyn Taylor, who tells
her, “You’re a dirty little whore just like me,”
before fucking her man.
Nile, the carefree millennial who put all this
in motion, seems to be a winner in this skeevy
world. But looks can be deceiving. We won’t
spoil the surprise here, but suffice to say that
once she inveigles stepsister Rebel Lynn into her
web, things don’t turn out well.
If this movie sounds dark, fear not. The sex
may be twisted, but it’s totally hot. Pax, Preston
and Deen take top honors when it comes to both
hot and twisted, but the other scenes are close
behind.
— Iris Blocks
Bitter and Sweet Top row, Penny Pax, Jaclyn Taylor, Jade Nile,
Rebel Lynn. Bottom, Pax and Chanel Preston.
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AAAA
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and the other scenes likewise center on older women/
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— Dirty Bob
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