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LOVE IN THE DIGITAL AGEAAAA 1/2
NEW SENSATIONS ROMANCE
NewSensations.com
DIRECTOR: Jacky St. James
CAST: Gia Paige, Kenna James, Mona Wales, Logan
Pierce, Tyler Nixon, Marcus London, Small Hands;
Others (Non-Sex Roles). 123 Min.
TIME: 123 Min.
CATEGORY: COMEDY, ROMANCE
An entertaining parable about the
ups and downs of social media.
Gia Paige and Tyler Nixon share
their cavorting online, but when he
posts a picture of her ass and tags
an online guy-talk radio show, it’s
Game Over. Newly unencumbered,
Paige encourages aunt Mona Wales
to go online to find a relationship.
When Wales balks, cousin Kenna
James ups the ante: Paige and
James will give up their phones for
Lent—if Wales signs up for dating
sites. Shorn of their electronic
safety net, Paige and James head
to a bar, where James meets cute
with Small Hands, who also has no
phone, but by choice.
Meanwhile, Paige takes solace
in a book she finds. A note falls
out of the book and Paige takes a
pen and writes a response, setting
in motion a classic plot that can be
traced back to the 1940 mainstream
film The Shop Around the Corner.
Employing her skills in the romance
genre, St. James ties up the various
threads neatly.
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