The Guest House

Plot synopsis:
Rachel is a rebellious 18-year-old musician who lives with her father, Frank, at their Los Angeles home. Before leaving on a business trip one morning, her father informs her that his new employee, a recent college graduate named Amy, will be coming to stay in their guest house for a few days while she gets settled. Amy arrives and Rachel, lonely and still affected by the death of her mother, feels drawn to Amy. Over the course of the weekend, the two women spend much time together and become close. Eventually they become lovers. When Frank returns, he is shocked to find them in bed together and lashes out at both of them. To Rachel's shock, it is revealed that her father and Amy slept with each other. Disgusted and feeling betrayed, Rachel breaks off their relationship.
Some time later, Rachel performs a show at a small club in San Francisco. Afterwards, she exits and finds Amy waiting outside. The two reconcile and decide to pursue their relationship further.

Tags: pornographic, gothic

Review:
The Guest House is not, by any stretch of imagination, a "good movie." However, it is an enjoyable, easy to watch romp in lesbian fantasy-land.
If you are looking for flowing dialog, lack of cliché's, though- provoking storyline conflict, then this film is not for you.
However, if you would like to check out of the real world for a while, and watch two beautiful women fall in love Romeo and Juliet style (minus the suicides, plus the sensual sex scenes) then by all means, this film is worth your time.
But sometimes, that's all you want in a movie, right?.
Awful movie.
I would recommend you gouge your brain out with a spoon if you still want to see this movie ...
acting is terrible story is already predictable and the production quality is dismal to say the least The movie starts off with slow pace and promising beginning but meanders and loses course in mid you can guess the ending straightforward ...
well the lesbian scenes are sensuous but I m guessing if I really want some good soft core pornography i would rather order a DVD than waste my time on it which makes me wonder why i wasted 1hr and 22 min of my life on this utter piece of crap ...
well perhaps to warn you good folks to save your time and mind.
Worst acting I have seen possibly ever.
I seriously don't know how these actors could be so unconvincing.
It's not even mildly entertaining, because the poor acting is so distracting and annoying.Also, the dialogue is pathetic.
I don't know why anyone would waste the money or time to make this movie.
I am never motivated to write a review of a movie, but I needed to let others know that watching this is a complete waste of a couple hours of your life.
I hope that helps illustrate just how horrible this movie is..
This movie is HORRIBLE.
The acting was so bad.
I love movies about forbidden love.
The love scenes were so awkward and totally fake.
I know it's all acting but come on at least try to seem interested.
I've seen elementary school plays with better acting.
If I spent any sort of money on this movie alone I would have been upset.
Watching paint dry would be a better use of time than watching this movie.
The only character I liked was the boyfriend in the beginning.
He wasn't supposed to be funny though so he did a terrible job acting as well.
Kill Me. I have never seen more terrible acting in my life, the lines are awful, the sound is awful the whole "film" is as amusing as watching 2 snails completing a 10 mile race, i will never forgive this film as it has robbed me of 1 hour and 20 minutes of my life.
The people that made this monstrosity can not make a film, they are possibly the most terrible film makers in all of existence and i would really like to know what they were thinking when they made this pile of sh*t I am begging anyone watching this or myself from the past to not watch this, you would have more enjoyment just staring at a blank wall for 2 hours and it would most likely be more productive.0/10 would not watch again..
Enjoyable movie.
Great movie.
Pretty good acting.
If you're looking for something to look at with great chemistry and soft core sensual lesbian scenes then go for it.
It has a great ending and I hope for a part 2 :)It's something cute for a movie night with your girlfriend and the explore each other deeper than just in the sheets.
They try to learn about each other before anything happens which is astounding since some movies don't do that they just skip straight to the sex which gets old fast.
I just wish the acting was a bit better.
Hopefully they'll make a part 2 and it'll have better acting, an even better storyline, and a better insight on a lesbian relationships.
Not good at all but I've seen worse..
The worst part of this movie was the production value.
It honestly seemed like a high school student made this movie for a project.
The camera work and angles were horrible and even the sound was off.
The acting, while not stellar, wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
There are really only about four characters in the film.
There isn't much that goes on but if the acting and camera work were better, it would actually be a solid, intimate story.
Overall, this isn't a good movie but with a higher budget it could be more watchable..
As it is this really feels weak and while I guess it tried to shock as many people as possible, while maybe also making a socially significant point (again, that would be you trying to see something positive and I think you can make that case), it's delivery and general quality is rather bad.Again good intentions, that's why I won't go with the lowest possible score, but women making out with each other should not be a real shocker anymore.
Btw. if you are looking for a kick I don't think you will find it here, although I guess that depends on your kinkiness - no real nudity though.
Not that it would have made the movie better, just giving you the information you may need to decide if you want to watch or not.
I wish I'd read some of these reviews before watching this very frustrating movie.
The acting was wooden, the script/plot toe-curlingly poor.
I've seen better acting in porn films.
This travesty of a film would have redeemed itself if there had been some real sex and straight forward nudity.
I can only imagine that, by not showing all, the director thought it was elevating the film to that of a proper romance, but he would have needed a decent plot and some proper acting to do that.
They should've gone all out for a proper X-rated full-frontal romp and then it would have at least had something to redeem itself with, because I should imagine that most people coming to this film would be wanting to see that..
Decent movie.
If you want a movie that is just pure escapism then it is a very good movie.
The acting isn't bad, the 2 actresses seem to have chemistry and just are having fun with the movie.
In other words, it doesn't seem they were forced together to do a job and behind the scenes hated each other.
I have seen far worse acting.
When an actor can make you forget about reality and care about the character, then they are good at what they do.
BOTH actresses have that ability in this movie.As for nudity, IF that is all you truly want look elsewhere.
This is a simple love story and very realistic.
As a straight man, it made me think and appreciate women more..
It was almost like two heterosexual actresses pretending to be lesbians.2) There is never a single touch beyond kissing (even the kissing seemed lifeless) except a close up of an ass with 2 hands grasping it.
All of the touching was PG and, judging by the lack of sexual chemistry, I doubt it was even performed by the actresses.3) There is never a nipple, or the tender caress of a breast or naked ass.
While I can appreciate that I do not need to see full frontal nudity, I think that some semblance of physical intimacy would be a must.4) NO WOMAN ON EARTH would have naked, wild, passionate sex in a bed and fall asleep in her lovers arms THEN wake up the next morning wearing a bra and panties.
BOTH of these two woke up sometime during the night, put a bra and panties on, then got back into the bed to snuggle and sleep.5) If I give my female partner oral sex in a jacuzzi, i have to actually submerge my head below the level of her belly button and remain there for more than 5 seconds.6) I have never been in a club where a singer is performing and been able to hear a pin drop....unless the place was empty.
Apparently LA and San Fran are full of unique little places like that, because it happens twice.All in all....it was contrived, poorly acted, and atrociously written.
It really seemed like it was a Lesbian movie, written by ultra conservative religious zealots to show how insipid and banal lesbian relationships are..
Okay, not only is the movie fully predictable(you know the end about 5 minutes in) the acting is absolutely awful(absolutely not convincing) the actresses are trying to convince you that there is a connection when there really is nothing at all, the dialogues are cliché, and redundant.
It'a all marshmallow and sweet and vanilla....but, the story...I mean...falling-no wait- being in love, after knowing the person for a day?
I know, people talking about love at first sight but...this isn't it...somebody explain how this got good reviews...I am a lesbian, yes the girls are kinda sorta cute, but that doesn't cope for the rest...
the story and, the whole movie, is nothing close to good....
The acting isn't perfect, but I fell in love with these characters, maybe it's because I'm a lesbian, I know love isn't perfect, and it comes in all shapes, sizes, orientations, ethnicities, and religions.
Love isn't biased.
This movie shows you that even while someone is suffering, someone else is able to help them overcome that by love.
Honestly, I think the only way to truly understand this movie, is if you're a lesbian.
Etc. if you're not into that, it's not the movie for you..
The story is so that you could actually make something out of it and the film manages to fail miserably in every regard.
The acting is beyond bad - not for a second did I feel any authenticity in both actresses' play (or any other character for what it's worth).
And the sex scenes are so forced as to show not the tiniest bit of possibly bawdy nudity that it's just grotesque.
Granted, not every movie with a girl-girl story can be "Room in Rome", but please, if you actually feel that the actresses' biggest concern during a sex scene is not to show an uncovered breast, just leave it out.
Besides, there are movies with very sensual and authentic lesbian love scenes that do not include full nudity (such as "I Can't Think Straight"), so it's very well doable.
But again, you would need good actresses for that.The movie has a single decently funny scene - that is when Rachel's ex-boyfriend calls and accuses her of having stolen her phone.
That is 60 seconds where the movie actually produced an emotion in me in the form of a smile.
The rest is simply awkward.I sat through the whole thing because I made it a principle to always finish watching a movie after I started it.
Had it not been for that, I would have turned it off and forgotten about this thing after 10 minutes into the movie..
There are worse films out there I suppose, but where "The Guest House" falters is not its production values or low budget, but the fact that the love story between the two characters is so empty and their affection is so forced.I don't know if these women were uncomfortable with the homosexual aspect, if their acting was just *that* bad, or if the director had an unnatural vision of what women in love really looked like.
They would go from sweet nothings to forceful, aggressive making out; they would be having a random conversation about life and suddenly one of them would pounce on the other...lesbians or not, *people* don't do this.
The end result comes off as attempt at eye candy under the guise of of male's vision of what two women look like.
Now I *might* could suspend belief long enough when it came to this weird forced eroticism if the rest of the story had been convincing...but it isn't.
These girls fall in love with each other in a complete vacuum.
Nothing really happens - there's nothing to drive their relationship forward or test their limits or to develop them as characters that we can care about, relate to, and understand.
Really, how much of a story is there about two people falling in love who are almost completely cut off from the outside world?About the time that the film would've gotten interesting, when the couple hits their "speed bump" in the form of dad, we cut a few months later, gloss over it, and everything's fine.
Even when the film gives us conflict, we don't really get any.The dialog is pretty bad too, and this ties back into nothing much of any interest occurring.
The writers try to give the girls character through these long winded conversations amounting to "what's your favorite color" for half the film which is painful to listen to.
What they sound like are, like the sex scenes, uncomfortable teens.
They don't really know each other so they make nervous small talk that is unbearable.And so we have what might look like a sweet little love story that ultimately has very little humanity left in it.
We don't know the characters, their story happens outside of real life, and there's just nothing for the audience to connect with.
A real love story, between 2 people of any sex, should be able to speak to anybody (except perhaps the severely homo or heterophobic) because we're able to relate to how they get to know each other and their search for happiness.
Sometimes a good idea isn't enough.
So this love story happens over a weekend.
I mean there is nothing wrong with a story about love at first sight but this just felt really forced.
So the browned haired woman( can't remember her name) moved into her bosses'guest house and immediately starts to have really private conversations with her bosses's daughter, the blond hair goth girl( again cannot recall her name).
Then they film each other for hours with Canon hand-held cameras.
This only works, if you have really good actors( will come back to this later).
Then they have sex but they way they have sex is the funniest part of the whole movie.
They are portraying this " passionate love making" but both of them constantly make sure, that you cannot see their nipples.
Followed by more sex and a hilarious scene with the ex boyfriend.
Later they go to concert and i wonder if the people that made this movie, have ever been to a concert.
She later sings a terrible song, that goes on for hours .Oh yeah and after that great and necessary song, they have sex.
A) You are not suspicious at all that ONS lets you work for his company and that he lets you life in his guesthouse which is on his property B) okay let's imagine that the brown hair girl is really naive, then why don't you try to keep a distance from his daughter?
You never notices that she was in a moral dilemma C) let's even ignore this fact and imagine that the brown hair lady forgot about everything that happened.
He is a successful business man so he needs to be good in planning.
So he hired his ONS let her live in his guesthouse which is on the property because he thinks that he still has a shoot with her.
He is more likely to hit that in a hotel room then in house with his daughter around.
That story makes no logical sense, the characters motivation even less.
Acting: Boyfriend: I don't know if he was suppose to have such a poor line delivery and over the top acting or if this was just poor acting.
You really succeeded in pretending to be a terrible character.
Blond Goth Girl: She was better then the brown hair girl but that is not saying a lot.
i think that this is what 50 year old people think a teenager behaves like.
Furthermore, i don't want to discourage anyone but maybe you shouldn't' consider a career in singing and/ or acting.
Brown Hair Girl: Don't look directly at the the camera!!
So many times when she was suppose to be looking at the her partner, she is looking directly at the camera.
Also when she had her dramatic scene at the end( the one you can see her nipples), at least try to cry, if you can't then hide your face in your hands so it looks as if you are crying.
I don't care if people use certain angles, zoom out or in too much but even i notices that the camera work sucked.
In the beginning it looks okay but sometimes it looks like someone was filming it on their own home video camera.
This excludes the scenes, where the two ladies were filming each other.
Especially the shower scene is shot in a really wired angle.
So in conclusion, this movie isn't good and i am not going to give it a pass because it is a lGBT movie and because of the low budget.A low budget has no impact on the plot or the acting.
The movie had potential but sometimes a good idea isn't enough.PS: You do see nipples 10 minutes before the end..
Feel Good Movie.
I gave this movie a 10 because it made me feel good and I walked away smiling and pondering the good things about relationships and second chances at not losing a love to time or bitterness.
Also, I really liked Ruth Reynolds acting and her portrayal of her character.
Good Job.