Pretty Peaches

Pretty Peaches is a 1978 American pornographic comedy film directed by Alex de Renzy that is considered one of the outstanding films of the Golden Age of Porn.^[1] The film stars Desireé Cousteau as Peaches, described as "a daffy carefree female who cheerfully plunges through life without any worries." In the film, she has a car accident after attending the wedding of her father (John Leslie) and is rendered unconscious. Two guys find her and take advantage of her; then offer to help her when it becomes apparent that she has amnesia. Peaches resolves to keep smiling through all the silly schemes and circumstances the guys come up with.^[2]

The movie likely was influenced by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's Candy, itself a homage to Voltaire's Candide.^[3]

While the film features sexual violence, including lesbian rape and a forced enema in a public rest-room – a sequence that was excised from most video releases – the film's tongue-in-cheek attitude keeps it up-beat. The Astronics/Telecine, Ltd. VHS release of the film is un-cut with the forced enema scene intact.^[4] Cousteau received the Adult Film Association of America Best Actress award in 1978 for her performance in the movie.^[5][6]

The success of the film spawned two sequels, both directed by de Renzy: Pretty Peaches 2 (1988) and Pretty Peaches and the Quest (1991) with Siobhan Hunter and Keisha in the title role of the 1988 and 1991 films, respectively.

References

External links

• Pretty Peaches at the Internet Movie Database
• Pretty Peaches movie trailer