Daddy Dearest & Juice

Daddy Dearest & Juice

No other filmmaker better embodied the spirit of the gay liberation movement than Arthur J. Bressan, Jr. A true pioneer of queer cinema, his films fearlessly blurred the boundaries between the artistic, the erotic, and the cinematic - especially his final two adult films, the critically-acclaimed Daddy Dearest and Juice. Altered Innocence and the Bressan Project are proud to present these two classics of gay erotica, newly restored in 2K from their original film elements and with a host of new bonus features.

Daddy Dearest follows Edward Thompson (Daniel Holt), a gay filmmaker hard at work on his latest triple-X epic, which tells the tacky story of a pair of college buddies (Dean Johnson and Andrew Dupree) wanting to hook up with an older daddy (Richard Locke). But as shooting gets underway, Edward finds memories of his ex (Johnny Dawes) and private fantasies of the couple he peeps on (Jan Boscamp and Robert Vega) into the action happening on set. The concluding chapter in the loose trilogy started by Passing Strangers and Forbidden Letters, Daddy Dearest is a lighthearted but provocative exploration of fantasy, memory and cinema.

Juice stars Michael Christopher as Jim Bennett, a photographer with serious artistic aspirations at New York's hottest gay magazine. Tasked with finding and photographing more scintillating subjects by the end of the weekend, or losing his job, Jim sets off on a 48-hour odyssey through New York's porn theaters and gay bars, encountering everyone from an angelic jogger (Vincent Thomas) to a pair of opera queen leathermen (Butch La Cross and Jeff Stone) in the process. Bressan's final erotic film Juice is a playfully sophisticated satire of the age-old tug-of-war between respectable art and pornography with a climax - literally - that has to be seen to be believed.