Finding Father

Chi Chi LaRue over a long career has occasionally hit the mark, with such fun lesbian features as a personal favorite of mine "Itty Bitty Titty Committee" back in 1989 and a series of prominent Vivid Videos starring top contract talent like Mercedez, Tera Patrick and Briana Banks. In recent years he switched to grinding out generic homosexual porn, but in this debut for the prestige label Icon Male finds himself aiming higher.

Unfortunately, the dead-serious drama emerges as flat, almost as if Chi Chi's heart wasn't in it. There's no campiness whatsoever in this road trip of hero Danny Gunn pulling a Rod McKuen and embarking on a road trip with best buddy Michael DelRay in search of his step-dad, who split on mom and him five years back.

The requisite four sex vignettes are rather perfunctory, as the duo get humped by an aggressive cop who nabs them for sleeping in their car overnight; a couple humping next door to them at a motel, and visiting a pair of step-brothers who naturally have incestuous sex, that being the in thing in porn nowadays.

Predictable climax is more incest, as Danny hooks up with his bear-like daddy Kristofer Westin for what shapes up as a showdown, but instantly turns into more sex. Possibilities for dramatics or even levity are foregone by Chi Chi, content to hand in Gay Couples Romance content in line with Nica Noelle's Icon Male mandate. I would never have guessed that he was the auteur had this video gone unsigned.