Pretty Peaches 2 was directed by Alex de Renzy, a pioneering documentary and adult filmmaker whose career spanned from the counterculture 1970s well into the digital era. At times, it seems like he treated adult cinema with actual cinematic composition, often shooting with widescreen framing and narrative pacing that mirrored mainstream studio sex comedies.
Young Peaches (Siobhan Hunter) finds herself deeply curious about the ways of the world and the mechanics of intimacy. With her boyfriend (Peter North) unable to properly educate her and her mother (Tracey Adams) keeping things strictly locked down (and sleeping with said boyfriend), she turns to the wisdom of her stepfather (Herschell Savage), who points her in the direction of her eccentric uncle Howard (ugh, Ron Jeremy) and his wildly unusual family living out in San Francisco. What follows is an episodic cross-country odyssey of sexual awakening, where Peaches encounters a bizarre parade of eccentric hitchhikers, roadside characters and unconventional relatives like Granny (Jamie Gillis), all while her frantic parents pursue her across California.
While technically a sequel to de Renzy’s 1978 original film Pretty Peaches, consider this more of a spiritual sequel. There’s a lot to be offended by, the least being that Melissa Melendez plays an Asian woman when she’s really Latino. That said, this is amongst the first adult films I ever saw, so it has a place in my heart.
