The Rundown: ‘Peace Offering’ (VOD Exclusive)
Basics
“The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.” Such a mythic viewpoint is the stuff of presidential speeches, not adult entertainment, but there’s something to be said for peacemaking on a smaller scale, too. Hey, we all love make-up sex, right? Girlsway takes the basic psychological framework of such sex and maps it onto the world of lesbian fauxcest threesomes. The Peace Offering has arrived! Three scenes find various combinations of stepmoms and stepdaughters clashing and then clicking. Each sequence comes from a different director (Joanna Angel, Eli Cross, and Casey Calvert), all of whom have their own style and sexual sensibility.
Scene highlight(s)
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the scene that lends the movie its title is also the one that stands out the most! Scene two finds Silvia Saige and Emily Willis knocking on Lauren Phillips‘s door. Lauren’s daughter has been bullying Emily for being a lesbian. Silvia will not put up with such intolerance, so she sets her mind on confronting Lauren. The confrontation’s temperature cools off considerably when Lauren concedes that her daughter’s behavior is inexcusable. In fact, Lauren herself is a lesbian, an admission that creates instant sexual tension. As a peace offering, she suggests that they all experiment with “daughter play” together. It’s no spoiler to say that full-on reconciliation isn’t far behind!
Scene one has a giggly, goofy charm all its own, as a slumber party devolves into a forbidden threesome. Scene three wraps up the movie with a flourish as Ryan Keely and new fiancee Kayla Paige seduce stepdaughter Vanna Bardot.
Quotable
“Now it’s a slumber party!” (Christie Stevens as she crashes the slumber party and climbs into bed with two nubile beauties)
“It does no one good hiding your feelings!” (Lauren Phillips as she coaxes Silvia Saige and Emily Willis into revealing their suppressed desire for one another)
Kayla: “What if your mom hears?” Vanna: “Let her hear! Hell, let her join!” (Vanna Bardot takes a come-one, come-all attitude toward her desires)
Why we love it
Just when you think family roleplay has exhausted every possible configuration of its various seduction scenarios, along comes Mommy’s Girl to freshen things up. Though familiar in their ultimate result, the situations found in Peace Offering are original and enticing, with strong performances from the cast across the board. We love the moment when Lauren’s stepmom character mentions the current fascination with “daughter play,” an adroit meta reference if there ever was one!
The flip in scene three is also quite effective, when Vanna Bardot’s seduction of her stepmom’s fiancee turns out to be part of the stepmother’s plan all along. Heck, the movie is stylish and fun even when it’s indulging in a classic porn cliche (the silly but entertaining pillow fight in scene one). If you’re beginning to tire of fauxcest, think of this movie as the embodiment of its title: a peace offering.
