If yesterday's entry was about a film that is considered a classic, today's entry will be just the opposite. The exploitation genre has survived the many perils of being always searching for the right movie to copy, and in a way the genre can not die without giving a fair fight of making films that want to get some of the money other big budget projects so rightfuly have earned. We had the golden era of the 70's and some of that survive to live throught the 80's finally becoming comatose in the 90's. Lena's Holiday is a promising 1991 Crown International Pictures film that tries to crossover the end of the german wall with the story of a young german bombshell who wants to make it in America.
So, the story has it with the fall of the Berlin wall, East German, Lena (played by astonishing Felicity
Waterman) goes on holiday in California. Her goal is to visit every place her idol James Dean visited while he was still alive. So she tours Los Angeles,
and all of a sudden, she is having the worst vacations you can think of, as nothing seems to go as
planned; she learns that reservations she made for a hotel turned out
to be phony, a cab driver rips her off, and worst of all, her luggage
has conveniently been switched with that of a lady who suddenly winds
up dead. Although, this is understandable, considering how gullible
Lena is. You'd think she was new to the planet the way she fell for one
stupid scam after the next.
Isn't she pretty?
Holy!
are there any sex shops nearby? I need to buy a dildo.
Only the scams look good when compared to the fact that she is being
pursued by hoods who have been watching her. When the dead lady's bag
doesn't contain what they want, they go after Lena, knowing she has the
same bag and was the last to see the other lady alive. They figure that
she is in on the deal. Things seem to turn around when Lena
unexpectedly befriends a fast-talking cab driver named Mike (Chris
Lemmon as a sometimes arrogant, sometimes sincere guy), who helps her
in sporadically timed moments of emergency.
'Lena's Holiday' is more of a dreamy love story and a comedy
surrounding a vacation nightmare (but pretty soon only just love the
story) than it is a caper, which you're only reminded off at certain
convenient moments in the movie. I would say it is about 70% love
story, 20% comedy about Lena's disastrous holiday misadventures (which
is pretty much the entire intro), and 10% caper. It is still an
enjoyable comedy, nonetheless.
I can turn into a big porn star lady.
Got a boner this big because of your bikini!
Nice cock!
This bitch is going bye bye.
Overall, a fair 90's film that has no intentions on being a masterpiece. The storyline is average. The problem this film has is that everything happens at the very end of the movie. Besides I wonder why the director Michael Keusch didn't ask Felicity Waterman to join in a sex scene/nude scene considering her gorgeous body that has only been seen in a couple of films. Perhaps she wasn't interested IDK but I'm sure we, the watchers would have been a lot more interested in this film if it had at least a single sexploitation scene.
See what I mean? she's got great boobs and an even nicer ass.
Can I carry those for you?
Who would wath Lena's Holiday? perhaps everyone, the question is who would like this movie as to watch it more than once? I certainly wouldn't.
Here's not the movie trailer, but the main theme composed for the film, conveniently called Lena:
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