The Night Before

The Night Before is a surreal hand-in-hand film that offers up a funny, touching and realistic look at lovers and their emotional responses to both jealousy and carnal lust. Casting a group of nine men, the vintage gay porn film begins with two average men, Hank (Coke Hennessy) and Paul (Michael Cade), who meet and fall in love in New York City when Hank helps photographer Paul with a shoot in the park. At Paul's place, they check out photos that he's taken, including one of Paul with another man, both naked. Their ensuing relationship and lust develops through dinners, visiting an art gallery, picking out a kitten and making out in the dark room. They have their first touching and intimate sexual encounter where Paul passionately eats out Hank's asshole and rolls around the bed with him to fall into a 69 session. Paul later stands and humps Hank's throat before filling his butt with cock. Sounds simple enough, but director Arch Brown takes you into the surreal world of Hank's dreams. In his dreams, Hank watches Paul hungrily sucking one man's thick prick after seducing him and fucking another man's tight asshole while Hank himself sucks the cock of a black man in the basement of a building. Also occurring in this sexual montage dream are Paul fucking the hairy ass of the kitten seller on a roof, Paul and Hank painting each other's body and kissing in a water tower, two professional dancers in a poster coming to life and dancing naked against a black background by a ladder and Hank participating in an orgy where he is fucked by a huge black double-headed dildo. The dream depicts what Brown terms "lover's paranoia", the kind of insecurity one feels when one falls too hard for someone too fast. The Night Before may be too "arty" for some porn lovers, but for others it will offer a welcome change of pace from today's often mindless all-male features! Cast: Michael Cade, Coke Hennessy, Jamal Jones, Nick Kastroff, Alexis Knight, Bob Plumber, Bill Yort, Tim Clark, Jeffrey Etting