Hyapatia infinitely better than her movie

Vivid and Paul Thomas made three films in this series about marriage, all of them bad.

Third time around, Hyapatia is no longer the wife, but instead plays The Other Woman. She brings great panache (and beauty) to what remains a cliched role in Ariel Hart's deficient screenplay.

Lee addresses the camera directly most of time, explaining cynically about marriage and infidelity, giving each scene a context from her point-of-view. We see her with married men Scott Irish and then, after he picks her up in a bar, Jon Dough. Also, Irish gets to have sex with his wife P.J. Sparxx, and later is treated to a threesome with Hyapatia and her girlfriend Kym Wylde.

Feature ends up with Kym and Hyapatia having Sapphic sex, after an S.O.L.I. sequence of them wandering, lifting weights and topless sunbathing outdoors.

Sad finale has Lee masturbating and crying, living the perils of just being the homewrecker, without a happy home to come home to.

The cynicism is piled on thick here, making the finale's sentimentality indigestible. So Thomas is left with beautiful shots of Hyapatia to stare at for an hour or so, and little more.

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