Lie With Me

Third Shelf Trashy Novel
There is just not much going on here. It's not strong at anything. Perhaps a candidate for a drive-in classic but where is the real tragedy ?

Lauren Lee Smith fans only
Basically this is a thinly veiled good movie with some sex scenes which are the main drawing point for Lauren Lee Smith fans. Not much plot to this film but mainly it is a cult following type movie of fans of Lauren Lee Smith. If you remember Mutant X you will know why Lauren Lee Smith has her following of fans and this film doesn't leave those fans in the cold. Essentially this film is fluff more than anything but to Lauren fans they will enjoy the thin plot and heavy use of sex scenes to tell her story.

Poor story line
This movie has a fair share of nudity, but a weak story line that I won't waste time to relate. Enough said

Intersection of Love and Desire
Clement Virgo's Lie With Me is a very unconventional love story. There are moments in our life that lead us into new territory. What starts out as a casual encounter can turn into something deeper and more powerful. Leila (Lauren Lee Smith) is a young woman living alone. One night she crashes a party and flirts with David (Eric Balfour). In all respects the relationship should have ended there as he was with his girlfriend Victoria (Polly Shannon) but it doesnt. What happens over the course of that summer is the story that makes up Lie With Me. The central question to be asked is when do emotions come into an affair that is purely sexual. When does the real world intrude on our conception of what love is. The performances in the film are groundbreaking for both of the young stars. The erotic nature of the film may put some viewers off (or turn them on) depending on their perceptions coming into the film. Given a chance the story the film tells is quite real this is not the made up love story that we are used to. It's gritty and dirty like life itself. Things do not always go the way that we plan for them to go. The standard definition disc offers a photo gallery, the theatrical trailer and an interesting commentary by Virgo and Smith.

Underwhelming
I guess the big lessons here are A) Sex is easy, B) Love is hard, and C) Ms. Smith's costumer should be fired. Lesson A should be obvious to anyone who's learned to grope themselves. Leila clearly fits into that category, as she so ably and repeatedly demonstrates. Lesson B should also be obvious to anyone who ever applied the word "love" to anyone but Mommy. Lesson C comes from the fact that curvier figures and sleeker ones can each look good, just not in the same clothes. Ms. Smith has a lovely, slender bust, but just about all of her outfits were tailored for DD or higher. Those collpased bodices, crumpled in on themselves and sulking for lack of the filling they expected, did nothing to set off her kind of natural charm. In fact, she would have looked better with nothing at all - and did so, quite frequently. Plot (the thing that ties the steamy scenes together) centers on the fact that strong emotional relationships have to be learned, and the trial and error learning that can be painful. The loveless relationship between Leila's parents didn't give her much to work with initially, so there's plenty of error once she does head in that direction. But, once she starts looking at men above the waist, she can't look back. Unfortunately, the frustrated need for something more than physical contact and the incompetence at getting it comes out in tantrums. I have no problem with pretty people getting physical, quite the opposite. I just didn't care for the junior-high emotional level housed in very adult bodies. -- wiredweird