You’ve got the sweet/hot young romance between Milano and Schaech then the weak “fatal attraction” type thing going on with the professor. The main problem here is that they try to play two types of films in one.
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The plot does have a very direct to video feel which is disappointing. There isn’t much to put the audience on edge until the very end and even then everything just comes off as lazy. I would’ve preferred to see a purely romantic film about Milano and Schaech instead of the half baked thriller this ends up being. The fault lies with the underlying material being weak and underwritten. Berkeley does give a suitable performance, it’s not his fault the plot doesn’t work. This is where the thriller aspect comes from. Lily begins posing for him and an intense infatuation begins. Xander Berkeley plays Donald Faulk, an art professor of Lily and Gredin’s who takes a strong liking to Lily. It’s so important in any film that involves a romance to make the audience buy into their connection and feel it and I think that’s accomplished here. One thing I really love is a well filmed sex scene, when a filmmaker is able to light things just right and create a dream like essence to it, firing up the chemistry and helping build the romance. Their sex scenes feel very sensual and romantic too and aren’t overtly raunchy or dirty. Much like Milano, who was also a sex symbol, he’s a gifted actor and gives a good performance here. Alyssa Milano as Lily and Johnathon Schaech as Gredinīut there’s more to him than just his looks. He’s undeniably attractive, especially in this film, they really play up his rugged sex appeal. He’s on my “celebrity list” which is – something I believe everyone has, even though some might not admit to – a list of celebrity crushes. I’ve seen him in other films, That Thing You Do being the most notable. Johnathon Schaech plays her roommate and main love interest, Gredin. I really didn’t expect that, I thought her character would be the antagonist of this erotic thriller. She was just a little misguided at times. What I like about Milano’s character and the arc is that I never once got the sense she was malicious in her actions. She starts to morph into a different type of person after finding a diary and materials who used to belong to a girl named Ivy. She has range, she starts out as a fairly innocent college girl who’s getting used to the LA scene having just moved there from the Midwest. Milano is good here, she comes off as very lovable even when she starts to change herself.
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