The Sister in Law

Some sister!

Bobby returns home after spending a year and a half touring America "to find himself" and finds himself embroiled in an affair with his author brother's estranged wife Joanna. What's obvious almost from the get-go is that Joanna wants to cause her husband some grief, particularly since he's living with a girlfriend while she is staying with his parents(!)..it's bad timing for Bobby who may've inherited a lot more than he could possibly realize. When Bobby, really a troubled young man with little aspirations it seems as far as a career is concerned, is introduced to Deborah, Edward's lover, he becomes enamored even though, at the same time, he's carrying on the affair with Joanna. Deb was a college student at Cambridge where Edward was lecturing and immediately smitten, she became his later lover. When Edward needs to be in Los Angeles the same time a package is to be picked up and delivered for his mob boss, he will appeal to Bobby for help(even "pimping" Deb away to go along out of desperation)which will yield tragic consequences..opening the package out of curiosity, Bobby and Deb will discover exactly what Edward's been helping his boss traffic for all that money in return, and a compulsive decision(which, while right in a moral way, will inevitably wreak havoc for Edward who needed the task itself to be fulfilled for his own personal safety)could lead to devastating results.

 

 

Get a load of that hot mama!

Enough body for two.

There's the alpha male pool basketball contest where Edward(who is older, stronger, and more taller than his younger brother)elbows Bobby in the face bleeding his mouth, Joanna and Deborah in a catfight(it starts with both pushing each other in the pool and escalates in Deb actually getting the better of her more devilish rival), Edward in deep with a mobster, Joanna instigating sexual liaisons with Bobby(clearly as a means to stir up Edward's ire), Bobby coerced into his brother's dangerous criminal life, Edward's betrayal of his own brother just to save his own hide, among other saucy ingredients in this 70's melodrama with overlaying music by John Savage himself(also portraying Bobby, in a method performance, excellent as expected), not to mention a juicy part for the delicious Anne Saxon as the salacious Joanna. W.G. McMillan is Edward, whose greed and own self worth drag Bobby into a mess not of his own making. Meridith Baer is the young lovely who also gets pulled into Edward's world because of his allure, soon falling in love with Bobby while on their trip to Quebec to receive the package. 

 

oh, Hi! brother in law.

Sex is good.

Shocking conclusion in grand CROWN INTERNATIONAL style. Both Anne Saxon and Meridith Baer shed their clothes in sex scenes with Savage. I just love the opening as Saxon walks down a city street with all eyes on her..she knows she's a sexy lady and revels in the fact that everyone's attention is focused intently on her. There's some interesting use of bluegrass in this movie, so out of place with the kind of characters assembled for SISTER-IN-LAW, yet somehow works. While I love Saxon in this movie, she really isn't the focal point as we might be led to believe(..which is kind of a shame, but this movie takes off in a completely different direction than first realized by opening with her). 

 

Here's the movie trailer: