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Desperate Husbands
Rating: 2 Stars
Produced by Dan Cross. Written and directed by Coco LaChine. Videography by Ed Maxxx. Edited by Fay Dubois. Starring Chad Savage, Joshua Adams, Brad Benton, Ben Damon, Kent Larson, Kyle Lewis, Collin O'Neal, Justin Wells, Stetson Gable, Toni Ross, and Christina Monet.
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After the unseen narrator of Desperate Husbands blows his brains out, denizens of Poinsettia Lane, where he lived, come together for a post-funeral gathering at his apartment. There are single dad Kyle Lewis and son Chad Savage, back from college (so Dad thinks); high school swimming coach Kent Larson and his alcoholic mother (drag performer Christina Monet in a non-sexual role); househusbands Ben Damon and Collin O'Neal; neighbor lady Toni Ross (another non-sexual role) and her boarder, bartender/go-go boy Justin Wells; and Brad Benton, the gay male narrator's none-too-bereaved widowed husband.

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Writer-director Coco LaChine has come up with some spot-on parody references to TV phenomenon Desperate Housewives, including a theme-music pastiche, but the humor is generally tepid. Jett Blakk's recent, similar Young Husbands on the Down Low has hotter moments; the Jet Set soap Wet Palms has more flair. Except when Toni Ross sees Benton entangled with Wells and has an apparent heart attack, story elements don't quite connect with the sex.

The cast includes some reliable pros, but the action strays just once from boilerplate sucking and fucking-- when O'Neal whacks Damon's bare butt with a paddle. The sexual high points are cumshots. Adams, Larson, and Benton all ejaculate while being fucked; Ben Damon spatters his chin. Stetson Gable, as a gorgeous, dark-haired gardener, shows promise at the start of a three-way with strapping Kent Larson and compact, plumply endowed Chad Thomas. But the sequence hits liftoff only when Gable, who mainly just stands there, drops out. (Gable's name, incidentally, is spelled Gable on the box and Gabel in the closing credits. Which is correct?)