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Playing Dirty
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced by Scott Masters. Written and directed by Paul Barresi. Videography by Max Meister. Edited by Jim Wigler. Music by J.D. Slater. Starring Matt Spencer, Drew Larson, Anthony Shaw, Rick Hammersmith, Casey Williams, Sam Dixon, Dante, and Alex Michaels.
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Paul Barresi, a quirkily talented maverick director whose best work deals with masculine sexual hypocrisies, seems to have had more freedom to be himself in this bent football melodrama than in his previous Studio 2000 outing, When Sparks Fly. The story concerns the efforts of snotty Anthony Shaw, senior editor of the University Times, to wreak vengeance on gridiron star Matt Spencer for rejecting his advances. Determined to expose the campus football team as a cadre of big fags, Shaw sends underling Drew Larson to snoop around.

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Barresi's script doesn't deal with the implications of malicious outing, but it does provide a framework for four not-bad sex scenes-- five if you count the dildo-enhanced solo that precedes football player Rick Hammersmith's hot grapplings with Dante, a member of the wrestling team. In the best scene, when Larson is caught watching coach Sam Dixon's kinky interactions with team members' jockstraps, fierce reciprocal fucking ensues. Finally, Matt Spencer gives Shaw his comeuppance by giving him what he wants, and more-- stopping just short of spinal injury. Spencer is superbly built in so many ways, especially above the knee and below the navel, that you may not mind that he doesn't seem built for football.