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'Sister Dearest' is a reminder that something happened to porn in the 1980s. And it wasn't Traci Lords and the scandal she brought later. Like other titles from Fours Rivers Production-Dreamland Home Video, the acting's decent, and the story's good enough to convince the audience. A long way before porn just parodied mainstream films, and made a beeline to the screwing.

Tom Byron sports a suit and mustache as Randy. It's 1988 and he returns to his old fraternity and sees a nude photo of his sister Vicky. Flash back to his 1st day 14 years ago. His dad wants him to get along with Vicky (Traci Lords). At the same Gamma Nu Fall Mixer party as her, Randy meets Harvey "Dante" Singleton (Herschel), leader of Gamma Nu. ("Gamma Nu sausages, you can't beat our meat.") Vicky dances with her boyfriend Little Ray (Marc Wallice) before they decide to have sex, and she decides to get a drink first. Like in real life Kristie… um Vicky is an eye catcher, and some other guy in the kitchen (Greg Rome) has ideas. He heard she took on 3 guys on a pool table last week, and he wants some of her. After..resisting…which lasted seconds, she kisses him and go to Gil Turner's (Peter North) room. Randy walks in on his sister and her sex buddy.

Gil meets Randy the next day, and they spy on women until Gil gets a f-u sign from Sahara. Gil meets her. She hates frat guys but she warms to his honesty about wanting to get in her panties. She works him in the mood and they do it. Randy and three other pledges to the Gamma Nu fraternity. They've got to get laid in two weeks or face the dreaded Black Hole. Herschel wears a football helmet for most of the film ("the helmet hides the scars of the black hole"), save for his scene with Ginger Lynn's. He's her mysterious new spiritual boyfriend who runs a tattoo parlor.

Randy eyes Shelly (Susan Hart), an art student. He asks her out for coffee but she has plans with her Professor (Harry Reems). Vicky sees this and reacts. "That little bitch!" Ginger Lynn's T.J. character asks "What's the matter with you?" "Randy's just so naïve, girls can take advantage of him." TJ's feels something: "Sound a little jealous." "Yeah right…"Vicky says. Maybe not jealousy, something else The title must mean something after all.

Shelly pose nude for her Professor, then do him. Randy finds out and gets hurt. Reems is no stud. He's a heat killer like Ron Jeremy. Gil tries to hook up Randy with Cheryl but she went pro. Another woman said Gil gave her crabs. Time's up. Randy faces the black hole. But Dante gives says it doesn't have to happen if Vicky goes out with him. Randy refuses. He's led to that scary place with candles and frat guys chants and body paint. Its just two women (Lois Ayres and Crystal Breeze) getting it on! Randy's suppose to join them but he sneaks away. The next day he gets ready to leave until Vicky sees him and makes a pass. She wants her brother to relax and be comfortable around girls. Despite the tension, they've always had things in common, like their desires. "Just because you hide yours doesn't mean you don't have them" she tells Randy. She asks for a dance, and so convincingly says, "I want you to touch me"…People know better to suspend belief that two siblings are getting intimate. It's a great scene, but suffers like the rest because it's edited too short.

Back to the present….Randy looks at the picture "What do you think sir? Did you know her?" The guy asked. Randy said, "In a way." Uh-huh. Lots knew Traci that way. Could have avoided tons of trouble had they known Nora.

This was a great movie, even back then. It happens to feature people having real sex. Traci quickly became a big enough porn star to appear in quality work back then. A well enough actress on and off-camera. A reminder that some performers aimed for Hollywood but end up in porn. Traci had it the other way. Read that Herschel wants to make it in the mainstream. Go Savage!

If you like Traci (I've never met any

male who doesn't) you will like this film. She was girlfriend to boyfriend Tom Byron with whom she has a great scene in this movie about the time this movie was made. Be sure to catch her in "New Wave Hookers" where she plays the Devil! and of course, "Traci I Love You!" In another of her films, tho not my favorite, "Traci Takes Tokyo", she has an intercourse scene where they actually use a very small camera inside her vagina and film the cock coming in! Of course she had to get a passport to film in Tokyo where her true age is displayed and of course you know the rest of the story. Traci was to the xxx industry what Brigitte Bardot was to the general (18 yrs and older) release industry, a sea change, both were never the same again. They both opened the gates to women of sexual allure as the aggressors instead of the pursued. ENJOY!!

Among Traci Lords' many porn-movies from the mid-19eighties, 'Sister dearest' takes a special place.

Almost drowned by the usual abundance of sex, lust & nudity, 'Sister dearest's key-topic surprisingly shines with a non-sexual issue: the genuine love from a sister towards her brother.

Almost drowned, I said. With her convincing sister-performance Traci Lords manages to pierce the surface. Thus breaking the boredom that inevitably sets in when looking at porn.

The brother is performed by Tom Byron. Although not an actor at all, his angel-face serves to create a virgin young man.

Needless to say that Lords and Byron end up in bed together. Naked. But not after it has been made clear that de-virginizing the boy is an act of sisterly love.