Friend of the Family

Friend of the Family (also known as Elke's Erotic Nights or simply Elke) is a 1995 drama film written and directed by Edward Holzman, and starring Shauna O'Brien & Griffin Drew.^{[1] [2]}

Plot

A married couple, Linda (Griffin Drew) and Jeff (Eric Lippert), are trying to get their relationship under control. They don't communicate with each other much, Jeff is a workaholic and Linda thinks he's cheating on her. Linda and Jeff are both having trouble talking to Jeff's two college-aged children, Montana (Lisa Boyle) and Josh (Will Potter), from his first marriage. They then meet Elke (Shauna O'Brien), the younger sister of one of Linda's old friends. Elke, who is free-spirited and sexually uninhibited, begins interacting with most of the members of the family, emotionally and romantically, with a new openness and communication between them as the unexpected result.

Cast

• Shauna O'Brien as Elke Taylor
• Griffin Drew (credited as Annelyn Griffin Drew) as Linda Williams Stillman
• Eric Lippert as Jeff Stillman
• Lisa Boyle (credited as Lissa Boyle) as Montana Stillman
• Will Potter as Josh Stillman
• Raelyn Saalman as Laura Kellogg
• Alex Demir as Ron Kellogg
• Betsy Monroe as Nancy Kellogg

Reception

Friend of the Family currently has no approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but the Want-To-See is currently 62%.

Sequel

In 1996, an unrelated movie called Passionate Revenge was released with Shauna O'Brien. For marketing purposes it was rebranded a sequel entitled Friend of the Family II directed by Fred Olen Ray (credited as Nicholas Medina). In this movie, Shauna O'Brien plays a femme fatale character named Linda.^[3]

References

External links

• Friend of the Family at the Internet Movie Database
• Friend of the Family at Rotten Tomatoes
• Friend of the Family II at the Internet Movie Database
• Friend of the Family II at Rotten Tomatoes