Student Affairs

My review was written in August 1988 after watching the movie on Vestron video cassette.

The notion of doing a behind-the-scenes "Day for Night"-type treatment of high school comedies delivers very little in "Student Affairs", a 1986 production debuting on video.

Prolific filmmaker Chuck Vincent round up his usual complement of Adult film performers (Tracey Adams, Veronica Hart, billed respectively as Deborah Blaisdell, Jane Hamilton) plus mainstream thesps to portray actors and crew shooting a '50s teen pic "Oakwood High" in New Jersey.

Film-within-a-film is utterly banal, as are the tribulations of an uppity actor on set (Jim Abele), the centerfold beauty trying to prove her acting mettle (all-too-true role for Adams/Blaisdell) and a disgruntled screenwriter interfering with the shoot (Andy Nichols).

Concept of watching thesps in three separate personae (auditioning to impress, in film roles and "real life") turns out to be synthetic. Only coup is the very believable thesping by Ron Sullivan as the "Oakwood" pic director; he's the prolific Adult film helmer usually credited as Henri Pachard.

Credit Vincent for trying something different, but without many laughs it's hard to watch as a "Porky's" carbon.