Punch (2002)

Posted by adultload on Jan 27, 2022 in Classic Erotic, Drama, Films, Vintage | 2 comments

Year: 2002
Country: Canada
Genre: Drama, Erotic
Quality: DVDRip
Language: English, English (Commentaries)

Director: Guy Bennett
Studio: Brightlight Pictures, Telefilm Canada, British Columbia Film

Starring: Michael Riley, Sonja Bennett, Meredith McGeachie, Marcia Laskowski, Vincent Gale, Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Don Ackerman, Sarah Lind, Stephen Dimopoulos, Mercedes de la Zerda, Dorota Dragan, Andrea Nazareno
Description:
—There you go. This bizarre, would-be literary exploration of incestuous father-daughter attraction, anger management, and women beating the crap out of each other while their particulars flap in the wind is actually nowhere near as salacious as it sounds but nowhere near as interesting as it could have been, either.
Troubled teen Ariel (Sonja Bennett) is upset that her widower dad, Sam (Michael Riley), is dating again, and she plays out her resentment though awkward sexual passes at him, which he — and the film — indulges far too much for comfort, and propositioning, in an unintentionally hilariously blunt manner, her French tutor.
Ariel also punches people she doesn’t like, such as Dad’s new girlfriend, Mary (Marcia Laskowski). Dad’s attempts to patch things up fail miserably, probably because he calmly and unapologetically says things like “We were doing very well until my daughter assaulted you.”
Meanwhile, grafted onto this sorry tale are the topless-boxing adventures of Julie (Meredith McGeachie), Mary’s sister, which are about angry women taking out their aggression on other women in the ring while, metaphorically, they’d really rather be punching the leering idiots cheering them on.
You might expect that Ariel would eventually solve her problems in the ring — if she’d bare her breasts to Dad, surely a bunch of drunks wouldn’t faze her — but no. Instead, writer/director Guy Bennett tries to put a legitimate veneer on that staple of B movies: the knock-down, hair-pulling, fully clothed catfight. Girlfight it ain’t.
—Eighteen year old Ariel is in love with her caring father, who lives with her in the upper middle class part of Vancouver. When he starts dating again, she becomes violently jealous, fails to seduce him, and turns to female boxing
—Dr. Sam Frizzell lives alone with his eighteen year old daughter Ariel Frizzell in the upper middle class Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver. Sam has dated little since his wife died when Ariel was a young child, he instead focusing his attentions on his daughter. With the exception of sex, Ariel has almost become a surrogate wife for Sam. Ariel, on the other hand, has taken that role one step further, she who has an Electra complex. Ariel has had behavior issues, in large part due to the circumstances around her mother’s death and the way Sam has treated her since. As such, she has no real friends and she is home schooled by a tutor – a young man named Markus who often cannot control his student – as she couldn’t function within a school environment. Into their lives comes Mary. As their third date, Sam thinks it would be a good idea for Mary to come to his house to meet Ariel. Mary’s already tenuous dating life takes a step backward when Ariel is openly hostile toward Mary over dinner, with the evening ending with Ariel physically assaulting Mary. The assault does not sit well with Julie, Mary’s sister who works as a topless boxer in a local bar. Like Ariel, Julie has anger issues stemming from her growing up period, with the boxing ring being what she believes her controlled her anger management outlet. Julie does whatever she feels she needs to both to get justice for her sister and to ensure that Mary is happy in whatever relationship she decides to embark