Comedy

Romance

Casual Sex?

Jascat

Universal Pictures

United States of America

English

Lea Thompson

Victoria Jackson

Andrew Dice Clay

Stephen Shellen

Jerry Levine

Mary Gross

Peter Dvorsky

Valerie Breiman

David Sargent

Cynthia Phillips

Don Woodard

Danny Breen

Bruce Abbott

Susan Ann Connor

Dan Woren

Dale Midkiff

John Edward Coburn

Sherri Stoner

Scott Thomson

Paul Lucas

John Boyle

Niles Brewster

Bradley Weissman

Tim McDaniel

Ray Cochran

Matthew Walker

Leslie Morris

Alan Berger

Scott Utley

Steven Ameche

Steve Oedekerk

Nicky Franklin

Jarrett Lennon

Sandra Bernhard

Michael Lindström

Geneviève Robert

Julie Kaye Fanton

Marilyn Bailey

Bruce Bellamy

Len Morganti

Peter Afterman

Stanzi Stokes

Wendy Goldman

Terence J. Edwards

Dianne Ketchum Friedgen

Eddie Paul

Sandy Webb

Sally Perle

Randy Ser

Rolf Kestermann

Raymond Camaioni

Howard Neiman

Kool Marder

Tom C. McCarthy

Van Dyke Parks

Timothy Roarke

Roxanne Jones McCarthy

Fred Vicarel

Doreen A. Dixon

Glenis Wootton Gross

Mary Jo Devenney

Elizabeth Ziegler

Deborah Schildt

Sandra Turnham

Dale Myrand

Sheldon Kahn

Patrick Melly

Elizabeth Flaherty

David Marder

Phil Dagort

Malcolm Hitchcock

Curt Sobel

Donn Cambern

Grania Preston

Todd M. Thaler

Enid Arias

Luke Wynne

Marlo Hellerstein

Russell Paris

Judy Toll

Joseph A. Liuzzi

Robert Johnson

Ilona Herzberg

Roxanne di Santo

Ivan Reitman

Betsy Magruder

David Brownlow

Art Martin

Ann Masterson

Harriet Polite

Todd Hayen

Fred Judkins

Jeffrey James Bell

Diane DeLouise Wessel

Robert W. Glass Jr.

Dan Engstrom

Bob Minkler

Mark Gordon

Don MacDougall

Blake R. Cornett

Saul Saladow

_**More entertaining for women than men**_

Released in 1988, "Casual Sex?" focuses on two young women, Stacy (Lea Thompson) and Melissa (Victoria Jackson), who go to a health resort to find a "safe" man in the new era of AIDS. Stacy has a promiscuous past while Melissa is a novice when it comes to sex. The former hooks up with a musician (Stephen Shellen) and the latter a nice guy massage therapist (Jerry Levine). Andrew Dice Clay is also on hand.

This is a fairly amusing 80's romcom with, thankfully, very little raunch despite the title. Although Thompson is her usual winsome petite self she's physically too thin for my tastes; Jackson is better with her irksome nasally voice, but her character is too bimbo-ish. Still, both are likable enough. Amazingly, it's Dice Clay who stands out as Vinny, a particularly annoying guest at the resort, who has an interesting character arc.

The topic of the film -- romance & sex in the 80s -- is told from the woman's point of view and therefore appeals more to women. So the fairer sex will appreciate "Casual Sex?" more than I did, but the movie's still worth catching for men because the three male characters ring true and Dice Clay's performance and his story arc make the movie worthwhile.

The film runs 97 minutes and was shot in Los Angeles.

GRADE: C+

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