Stormy Daniels, irrespective of her recent character-assassination fallout from the Trump scandal, is a fine Adult Cinema director, as evidenced by this well-written and directed romantic drama about prostitution made for Wicked Pictures.
Tori Black is the lead, a housewife to Barrett Blade, who loses her job, joining BB on the unemployment line back in the 2008-9 financial debacle. Her friend played by writer-director Stormy advises her to take up the lucrative profession of an "escort", ever the euphemism for hooker.
Tori resists at first, even copping out when hired to accompany Daniels on a bachelor party for Brendon Miller (Stormy's real-life husband, since estranged). But soon she is hooking with a vengeance, making tons of money to spend on shopping sprees and growing apart from her hubby.
Quite disarming is Stormy casting herself in the Bad Influence roles, and in early reels seeming to paint a glowing picture of high-priced sex work, in common with most porn films that proselytize on the subject. But this turns into a cautionary tale, acted with panache by Tori, then riding high in the industry only to achieve stardom again with her big comeback in 2017.
Blade as her husband is surprisingly sympathetic in an unlikely Mr. Mom role, but unfortunately as he's done consistently in hundreds of other features he makes no attempt to look the part, merely showing up for work with his always-biker-look style and costuming.
Distinctive in the supporting cast is McKenzee Pierce as a fellow prostitute, delivering a strong d.p. scene with big-dicked co-stars TJ Cummings and the late Billy Glide. Script fudges on her character's exact fate in the story, the only defect in an otherwise laudable Stormy screenplay.
