Sept 22-28 Chuck Vincent Week: No one did it like Chuck! He’s the unsung king of Up All Night comedy, a queer director making the straightest romcoms but throwing in muscle studs and drag queens. His films explore the concept of romance from almost every angle – he was deeply passionate about love.

Also known as Wildest Dreams, this is the last film that Chuck Vincent directed. Within a year, he and his frequent writing partner Craig Horrall would be dead from AIDS, and we’d be left with these films running eternally on USA Up All Night and now YouTube and Tubi, the kind of films that don’t get released in boutique format UHDs with tons of extras. No, if you love Chuck Vincent movies, you’re often on your own.

Shout out to The Schlock Pit, who are the only other reviewers of this movie on IMDB. Those guys are tastemakers.

Bobby (James Davies) thought he’d have the summer at the beach to party. But no, he’s forced to run the family antique business when his parents (Veronica Hart and Harvey Siegel) leave town and force him to learn some responsibility. What he does find is a magical lamp, as you do in antique stores, gets a genie named Dancee (Heidi Paine, whose career is made up of roles like Party Girl, Perfect Girl No. 8 and Cake Lady) and uses his wishes to become attractive to the women who would never notice him before.

Those women include cleaning-obsessed Isabelle (Jeanne Marie, Young Nurses In Love) and delivery girl Stella (Ruth Collins, Any Time, Any Play). Like all magical sex comedies, the real girl he chooses is the nerdy Joan, who is played by Tracey Adams, using her mainstream name Deborah Blaisdell. She was an adult from 1983 to 2000, and since then, she has attended UCLA’s Film & TV Program and studied with The Groundlings.

Some people will hate this movie. Others will see it as a comforting part of the past, a film they watched in the middle of the night, dreaming of being an adult and then growing up to dream of being a teenager.

You can watch this on YouTube.