Directed by her husband Layne Parker, Ashlyn Gere's star vehicle for Vivid titled "Ashlyn Rising" gets off to a rocky start with a lengthy and confusing opening sex scene of a screwed-up threesome featuring her with Rocco Siffredi (misspelled Siefrredi in the credits) and Colt Steele. It plays like an erotic nightmare, and is intercut pointlessly with shots of Gere driving her car at night.

That scene is followed by her arriving at Nina Hartley's house, and then a brief story set-up flashback where Gere's friend Sean Michaels sympathizes her for the horrible way Rocco has been treating her, and refers her to Nina for sex therapy sessions.

Finally after this awkward beginning, the movie settles into Nina guiding Ashlyn back to mental health, includng having her watdh otther couples make love and, not surprisingly, Nina taking charge and making love to Ashlyn herself. Nina's calm and authoritative manner is familiar to fans who've seen her series of dozens of sex education videos she made for Adam & Eve, so she's perfect casting for this role. She even includes having Ashlyn watch a lesbian porn clip starring Hyapatia Lee and Kym Wilde, drawn from the Vivid archives.

Instead of building up to a dramatic breakup with Rocco, the movie's awkward structure makes the story anticlimactic: Ashlyn is easily cured of her Rocco-induced antipathy to sex and she rewards Michaels for his help by humping him in bed. And all's right with the world.

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