Making Ends Meet
- Video
- 2018
- 2h 12m
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Mercedes Carrera
- Amy
- (as Mercedes Carerra)
Cherie DeVille
- Raquel
- (as Cherie Deville)
Ryan McLane
- Ryan
- (as Ryan Mclane)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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- TriviaNot related to the director's same-titled earlier feature "Making Ends Meet" (2000) (V) for Metro release -not a remake.
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Excellent Quasarman script propels amusing rom-com
In spite of the presence of Tommy Pistol lousing up (to some extent) a leading role, Mike Quasar's "Making Ends Meet" succeeds thanks to the auteur's incisive comedy script.
Quasar used the same title early in his career for Metro's 2000 release which, per an IMDb review, has an entirely different plot than this one. Here we have Pistol shifted by his mean boss Ryan McLane from a cushy $180,000 salary job to $40,000 menial work, forcing his sympathetic wife Mercedes Carrera to enter the work force.
Thanks to helpful "sex worker" (more about terminology later) Cherie DeVille, she gains entree to prostitution, a vehicle which allows her spouse Pistol to get his revenge on his boss, though cuckolding himself in the process. Their daughter Gia Paige is in the process of discovering her sexual identity, first unsuccessfully with her gay-leaning boy friend Tyler Nixon and then triumphantly humping the uniquely stunning shaved-head porn starlet Riley Nixon (no relation, just a nice casting coincidence).
Other than Pistol's way too obvious, mannered approach to delivering his lines as if barnstorming in some 19th Century troupe of travelling players, Quasarman gets very entertaining performances from his cast. And their dialog is top-notch, making fun of lots of currently p.c. attitudes toward sex, as well as some effective digs regarding the porn industry. He may not have intended to, but his frequent eupemistic emphasis on "sex worker" rather than whore or prostitute rebounds equally on the artificial distinction between "porn actor" and prostitute, especially in a Pistol/Carrera dialog exchange where Tommy wonders about the justification for her having sex with strangers for money.
Though Quasar has a thousand or so all-sex clunkers on his resume, if he keeps cranking quality at this level I will have to reconsider his place in the Adult Cinema firmament.
Incidentally, feature was shot at porn's favorite location, the "Immoral Proposal" mansion, spotlighted in an opening aerial shot and later providing its iconic spiral staircase for backdrop of a Carrera/McLane sex scene downtairs.
Quasar used the same title early in his career for Metro's 2000 release which, per an IMDb review, has an entirely different plot than this one. Here we have Pistol shifted by his mean boss Ryan McLane from a cushy $180,000 salary job to $40,000 menial work, forcing his sympathetic wife Mercedes Carrera to enter the work force.
Thanks to helpful "sex worker" (more about terminology later) Cherie DeVille, she gains entree to prostitution, a vehicle which allows her spouse Pistol to get his revenge on his boss, though cuckolding himself in the process. Their daughter Gia Paige is in the process of discovering her sexual identity, first unsuccessfully with her gay-leaning boy friend Tyler Nixon and then triumphantly humping the uniquely stunning shaved-head porn starlet Riley Nixon (no relation, just a nice casting coincidence).
Other than Pistol's way too obvious, mannered approach to delivering his lines as if barnstorming in some 19th Century troupe of travelling players, Quasarman gets very entertaining performances from his cast. And their dialog is top-notch, making fun of lots of currently p.c. attitudes toward sex, as well as some effective digs regarding the porn industry. He may not have intended to, but his frequent eupemistic emphasis on "sex worker" rather than whore or prostitute rebounds equally on the artificial distinction between "porn actor" and prostitute, especially in a Pistol/Carrera dialog exchange where Tommy wonders about the justification for her having sex with strangers for money.
Though Quasar has a thousand or so all-sex clunkers on his resume, if he keeps cranking quality at this level I will have to reconsider his place in the Adult Cinema firmament.
Incidentally, feature was shot at porn's favorite location, the "Immoral Proposal" mansion, spotlighted in an opening aerial shot and later providing its iconic spiral staircase for backdrop of a Carrera/McLane sex scene downtairs.
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- lor_
- Aug 6, 2018
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