Don`t be put off by the steamy-erotic-thriller style title. In this comedy-drama Cece (Jake-Ann Jones), is the pretty, grownup daughter of a former 1970s blaxploitation movie sexpot, and when she tries to carve out her own fledgling acting career she vows that she won`t become famous by taking all her clothes off, the way her mother did. But straightaway Cece is cast in a small-time screen drama playing a painter`s model--and the role calls for extensive nudity. Will she or won`t she strip for the (male) director, the (male) screenwriter, and their cameras? First-time filmmaker Davis was obviously working with a budget hardly bigger than Cece`s film-within-a-film, and some gaffes slip through in the production values. But it`s also a sly feminist farce that addresses the hypocrisy surrounding the last taboo in cinema: keeping your clothing on. This feature`s true soul sister on tape is a highly-personal documentary by Odette Springer about images of women in sleaze movies she herself helped make, SOME NUDITY REQUIRED.
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