Product Description Kate (Cicely Mendoza) has been sailing the seas of love searching for the woman of her dreams. When she reluctantly joins a book club as a favor to her friend Hannah, what begins as a chore quickly turns into recess when Kate recommends a lesbian novel to the group of unassuming straight socialites. As the book club members dive into the novel, the story comes to life as the dashing female pirate "Raven" seduces damsels while hunting for buried treasure. Meanwhile, Kate's love life isn't nearly as exciting. She has a crush on Hannah. When the women are together, Kate suspects Hannah feels the same. But Hannah has a boyfriend. So Kate's best friends, Frank and Travis, try to help Kate get over Hannah by setting her up on a series of blind dates. Back in bookland, the novel has invigorated the book club members and stimulated their sexual appetites. When they meet to discuss the novel, juices are flowing. After the meeting, Hannah asks Kate to stay and help clean up. Will this be the "happy ending" that Kate desires? Review In 2006 a bunch of artistic friends from Nevada got together and made a no-budget movie. The screenplay was written a few years before by partners Amanda Tremblay and Megan Schlegel. Because they, and all the rest of the cast and crew, all had day jobs they could only film on the weekends. So began a true labour of love, and it really does show. These are obviously a bunch of really creative, talented people. As for the film, this is a very simple love story. Kate falls for Hannah, a straight girl who runs a local bakery that specialises in dog treats. Of course, she has the classic gay-girl-loves-straight-girl fantasies of her dream woman dumping her boyfriend and running away with her. Unfortunately it doesn't look like that's going to happen. Instead, Hannah invites Kate to her book club, a monthly meeting of successful (straight) women. After being pressed to nominate a book for the next meeting, Kate offers up an unusual title - a book of lesbian erotica about a dashing gay pirate named Raven. Littered throughout the film are black and white excerpts from the lesbian erotic novel that all the women are reading, and these are the parts that are truly amusing. Raven, the lesbian pirate, has a seductive catchphrase (I don't want to ruin in for you) that is repeated, and every time it was said I found myself laughing out loud. The fact that you come to expect it just makes it funnier. Eventually, the straight women reading the book begin to imagine themselves as characters being seduced by the gay pirate, and they all lose their virtues to her all-too-persuasive charms. Cicely Mendoza, the actress playing Kate, is very easy to like, and very easy on the eyes. She has a natural beauty that isn't showy, and I definitely bought her as a lesbian. The remainder of the book club was well cast, though the side plot involving the overly-christian woman and her lover dragged the film a little bit. Considering we're never going to get films made and distributed by the big studios in the quantities we want or with the content we love, there needs to be more support for little enterprises like this. I'm actually really surprised (and maybe a little disappointed) that this film hasn't been picked up by the major lesbian film festivals. It is every bit as good, if not better, than most of the stuff you see at those festivals every year. My rating is probably a little inflated, but I can't resist a good romance. I'm sticking with it because these filmmakers deserve support, and because I genuinely enjoyed myself watching this movie. That is, after all, the whole point. --http://www.kissingfingertips.com