Champagne for Breakfast

Director - Chris Warfield (Sounds of Sex)
Starring - Lesllie Bovee (SexWorld), John Leslie (Black Satin Nights), and Bonnie Holiday (The Jade Pussycat)
Release Date - 1980
Genre - Drama
Tagline - "They called her Champ...and she was!"
Format - DVD (Personal Collection) (Screener)

Rating (out of 5):

     July has come to an end and so has my monthly no horror challenge.  Most of the month my attention was focused to blaxploitation and a few comedies but it wouldn't be one of my no horror months if I didn't watch a good bit of sleaze and this one is no exception.  After watching a comedy and some blaxploitation I decided to watch the last sexploitation film for the month.  This one came to me from my friends over at Vinegar Syndrome.  This one is the 1980 flick Champagne for Breakfast which starred John Leslie who was in another sexploitation flick that I watched earlier this month titled Dixie Ray: Hollywood Star.  I once again want to thank Vin Syn for sending this one my way.

     The film follows Harry (Leslie) who is on the search of a new job.  He tries his hand at being a bouncer but is unable to pull in the job after fucking the owner of the bar.  He goes back to the employment agency and gets a tip that a wealthy lady is looking for a chauffeur for a week.  He learns that Champagne, the lady looking for the chauffeur, has turned down every male applicant so far so he tries a different approach.  He pretends to be gay  and is instantly hired.  Now he is presented with a new opportunity at employment so he can save money and finds himself up to his neck in strange.  He fucks his way through the job and soon finds himself in another problem financially.  

     I love sleazy films.  Sleazy drama, sleazy horror, sleazy action.  You can add sleaze to anything and make it work.  Sadly, not all sleazy films are worth your time.  Champagne for Breakfast had a fun cast but the story was all to shit.  The acting in this one is fun considering it's mostly porn.  The cast offers up some great performances but their characters are very, very flat.  With that being said, Leslie Bovee was a knockout.  As I get older I find myself respecting women in older porns and she is quickly becoming one of my favorite vintage porn stars next to Tracey Adams.  The story for this one is quirky and fun but full of holes with choppy editing.  The story needed to be heavily edited to make it more linear.  I know I'm talking about story in a porn but from a movie lover's stand point the story was all over the place.  Finally, those of you looking for action or humor will be very let down.  The action is non-existent unless you count the sex and the humor is misses it's mark.  The sex rules this film and nothing else.  Overall, Champagne for Breakfast is not the film I was hoping it to be.  The sex was wild and heavy but the story was very weak.  For a sexploitation film it fails but as a porn it is rather fun.  Check it out, it deserves at least one viewing.