{"id":51460,"date":"2008-02-12T13:44:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T20:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=51460"},"modified":"2021-01-31T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T06:30:17","slug":"roommates-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=51460","title":{"rendered":"Roommates (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Roommates-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Roommates-Poster-190x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-51462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Roommates-Poster-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Roommates-Poster-81x128.jpg 81w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Roommates-Poster-171x270.jpg 171w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Roommates-Poster.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nThree single women (Samantha Fox, Kelly Nichols, and Veronica Hart) share an apartment in New York while exploring careers, romance, and sex.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adult Films<\/li>\n<li>New York City<\/li>\n<li>Sexual Liberation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this reasonably well-made &#8220;adult&#8221; film is an &#8220;almost successful attempt by [director] Chuck Vincent\u2026 to make an XXX-rated film that the general audience would find palatable.&#8221; (After two weeks playing in X-rated venues, the film was re-cut and released with an &#8220;R&#8221; rating). As a female <em>non<\/em>-fan of such films, I was delighted to find myself actually enjoying this story of three gutsy women attempting to &#8220;make it&#8221;, both professionally and romantically, in New York. The very <em>natural<\/em>-looking Veronica Hart &#8212; playing a budding actress who is trying to move beyond an unfulfilling affair with a married man &#8212; is especially credible. Fans of adult film stars Jamie Gillis and Ron Jeremy will be happy to note that each makes an appearance here (though be forewarned that Gillis plays a surprisingly unappealing, smarmy character.) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decent acting by the three female leads<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/Roommates-Still.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/Roommates-Still-1024x744.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"465\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-67596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/Roommates-Still-1024x744.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/Roommates-Still-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/Roommates-Still-128x93.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/Roommates-Still-768x558.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/Roommates-Still-372x270.png 372w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/Roommates-Still.png 1121w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Well-integrated (if &#8220;surprisingly raunchy&#8221;) sex scenes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo &#8212; though as one of the few successful &#8220;crossover&#8221; adult films, it merits a look. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0083007\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: Three single women (Samantha Fox, Kelly Nichols, and Veronica Hart) share an apartment in New York while exploring careers, romance, and sex. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Adult Films New York City Sexual Liberation Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: As Peary notes, this reasonably well-made &#8220;adult&#8221; film is an &#8220;almost successful attempt by [director] Chuck Vincent\u2026 to make an XXX-rated film that the general audience would find palatable.&#8221; (After two weeks playing in X-rated venues, the film was re-cut and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=51460\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51460"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67597,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51460\/revisions\/67597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}