After an embarrassing incident in her teenage years which made her the laughing stock of the town, writer and professional sex expert Cassie Cranston (Jewel Staite) arrives home following the death of her mother hoping to collect some inheritance money to pay off a publishing house who gave her an advance and are pressing her for a novel based on her experiences. When she arrives back some of the towns repressed thirty-something members feel she is the catalyst that they need to spice up their lives so it seems like a match made in heaven when they decide the best way to do this is to hold an orgy which she can use as subject matter for her book so it’s looks like it’s a win-win situation.

Of course there wouldn’t be much of a movie if all went to plan so we get to watch one disaster after another as the characters who’s small town mentalities and years of living in each other’s pockets put up so many boundaries that it makes it impossible for them to lose their shackles.

The mix of characters are diverse enough to feel genuine, their relationships feel weathered and each of their motivations are believable and there’s no standout character so it feels like a good blend and in that sense director Jeremy Lalonde deserves credit, but the movie suffers from not pushing the boundaries far enough to be fully raunchy yet pushing them too far at times which masks the actual humour so it felt like watching an extended Benny Hill show (The town is called Beaver’s Ridge….see what I mean?) as the content and dialogue is adult but the nudity is partial and obscured so it’s stuck in limbo. It felt more like a small screen drama which was given a raunchy title and twist to try and gain some attention as beneath the content there’s is a good story of relationships in a small town, the narrow mindedness of people and the inability to both let go of the past and embrace change.

The film is better than most for a crowdfunded indie movie with a very small budget but it’s gets lost in not knowing what it actually wants to be so it ends up caught between a rock and a hard place, no pun intended!

DJ Speaks Rating: 5 Out Of 10