Indecent Behavior II

"Indecent Bahavior II" is probably close to "as good as it gets" in the soft-core erotic thriller market. The reasons are simple: the "erotic" parts are fairly sensual and explicit, and the "thriller" (or rather, "whodunit") parts, although VERY contrived, at least manage to hold enough interest in-between the erotic parts. The cast and the production values are decent. Shannon Tweed plays a Beverly Hills "sex therapist" with rather unorthodox methods (which include hiring women to have sex with unknown men to help them with their problems; under other circumstances such women are called "prostitutes", but here they are known as "surrogates"), who becomes a murder suspect when one nosy female reporter who had tried to blackmail her turns up dead. She has two shower scenes and gets in bed with James Brolin - all to keep her fans happy! But the best shot of the movie belongs to Rochelle Swanson (who plays the wife of one of Tweed's patients): during her one night stand (literally) in a dark, rainy alley, she pulls back her partner's head by the hair and gives him a dominating look that is just priceless. (**1/2)