Product Details

• Actors: Renee Rea, Tracy Ryan, Dillon Silver, Jason Schnuit
• Directors: Robert Kubilos
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Razor Digital Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: August 17, 2004
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001LY9WS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,300 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Razor Digital Ent Release Date: 06/15/2004 Rating: R

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

178 of 183 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Semi-erotic - Forbidden, October 15, 2005

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Mr D. "Artist/Designer/Kibitzer" (Cave Creek, Az United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Forbidden (DVD)

Forbidden is another of the seemingly inexhaustible and growing supply of softcore flicks. So what's Forbidden about? Anybody that rents this kind of movie for the plot is going to be sorely disappointed but still, it has a plot, so I will describe it. The story centers around four people, Andy, Jason, Lisa and Monique. A couple days before Andy's impending marriage to Lisa, Andy's best friend, Jason, throws a bachelor party for him in a local hotel room with his buddies and a couple strippers. Andy can't seem to get into the swing of things so he goes outside and sits at a table by the pool and orders a drink and starts up a conversation with an attractive tall slender girl named Nikki (Renee Rea). Andy left the bachelor party because he intended to remain faithful to his fiancee Lisa (Tracy Ryan) but he gravitates to Nikki and though both their intentions seem to be honorable, they inevitably end up in bed for a memorable night. They both agree this was a one time fling, expecting to go on with their lives, never to see each other again. Unfortunately, Nicki really got under Andy's skin and he still thinks about her, even three years later when his friend Jason invites Andy and his now wife Lisa, to his family's vacation house for a long weekend and to meet his fianc`ee. Now Andy is the consummate player, who swore never to marry, so both Andy and Lisa are anxious to meet the woman who captured this confirmed bachelor`s heart.

Andy and Lisa arrive first and one thing leads to another and Andy starts shagging Lisa on the Billiard table. When Jason and Monique arrive, while Andy and Lisa are flagrante delicto, they make a mad dash to retrieve their clothes and dignity. After the embarrassed couple get dressed Jason introduces his fianc`ee Monique who to Andy's surprise it's his dream girl Nikki (Nikki is short for Monique). Unbeknown to Andy, Jason and Lisa have a past and unbeknown to Lisa, Andy and Nikki also have a past and what evolves is an almost comedic situation of musical partners and an anticlimactic climax.

Conclusion

Obviously with softcore movies, one has to use a different yardstick to review and rate them. The unstated but ultimate purpose of softcore movies is not so much to entertain but to stimulate the viewers, while entertaining them. If you do not believe this, I admire your naivety. With that in mind, I take this criterion into my reviews of softcore films. While sex scenes are supposed to be erotic in nature some succeed more than others. Of the ten or so sex scenes within the film, a single shower scene reached true eroticism for me. The other scenes while still "entertaining" seemed to be too choreographed and were, somewhat, devoid of emotion and even worse intensity.

Overall the flick had a relatively weak plot, an attractive cast who performed decently. The directing was acceptable, while cinematography was very good although it shot and edited in a straight forward manner..

Report Card

Story - C-
Acting - C
Directing - C+
Cinematography - B
Cast - B
Eroticism factor - B-
Entertainment factor - C

Final Rating 3.5 stars (B-)

Movie Data

# Starring: Renee Rea, Tracy Ryan
# Format: Color, Closed-captioned
# Rated: NR
# Studio: Razor Digital Entertainment
# DVD Release Date: August 31, 2004
# Run Time: 83
# Director: Robert Kublios

66 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars about the movie...Forbidden, May 28, 2003

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Ang Poon Kah (Singapore) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Forbidden (DVD)

Jason is a young man at a crossroad in his life. He is about to marry his beautiful and adoring fiancée Lisa. But first he has to survive the ultimate bachelor party being thrown for him by his best friend and best man Andy. However, Jason is committed to remaining faithful, and slips away from the festivities to hide out at the hotel coffee shop. There he meets Nikki, a fascinating woman with whom he forms an immediate bond. The two of them end up sharing the perfect intimate night together and agree that it will remain their erotic secret locked away in time forever.

Two years later, Jason and Andy have not seen each other since the wedding and Andy relocated to the other side of the country. The old friends plan a reunion weekend at a fantastic Malibu Beach house that Andy has rented. Jason brings his wife Lisa and Andy brings the woman he is planning to marry. When the four finally meet up, Jason is shocked to discover that Andy's fiancée is none other than Nikki (now Monique) the woman from his bachelor party - the very woman he has not been able to shake from his fantasies for the past two years.

Jason's thoughts and feelings run amok..."I'm married", "Monique is engaged to Andy my best friend", "I am still ridiculously attracted to her and not a day has passed that I haven't thought of her". It is obvious to Jason that to pursue his feelings for Monique would be wrong. But sometimes the most tempting fruits are the ones which are Forbidden.

There are multiple sex scene, nudes in this movie which I give a rating of four(for those whom likes to watch multiple sex scenes in a movie). I give a rating of 3 star for the story in the movie.

48 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best in the western hemisphere!, May 12, 2003

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e5150 (United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Forbidden (DVD)

Forbidden is absolutely the cream of the crop of American softcore, a position which I used to grant to "Play Time" with Jennifer Burton. This film goes way further than that one, and out-performs even the kinkiest of Skinemax's erotic soap operas. The skin factor here goes off the scale, and gets extremely daring and explicit, moreso than all the other American softcore that I've seen (and trust me, I've seen a LOT!). Shannon Whirry, Shannon Tweed, and Monique Parent films should be on Disney compared to this. Zalman King, the publicly accepted king of American softcore, is put to shame by this film. I don't want to get too graphic with my descriptions--I CAN'T--but let's just say that this is the closest I've seen an American product get to duplicating the great euro-sleaze genre typified by Jean Rollin and Walerian Borowczyk films. Beautiful women with absolutely no shame in exposing themselves entirely!!!