Finding Bliss
Finding Bliss is a cutting edge romantic comedy that explores the adult film industry through the eyes of an idealistic 25 year old award winning film school grad, Jody Balaban (LeeLee Sobieski), new to Los Angeles.
After a long humbling year temping as a traffic cop on a studio lot, Jody is faced with the hard decision of taking the only well paying industry she has yet been offered - editin porn at Grind Production, a profitable X-rated comany run by former porn star and shred business woman Irene Fox (Kristen Johnson).
Irene explains that Grind is embarking on their first 'real' movie, which they plan to release in art-house theatres across the county.
The consummate saleswoman, she attempts to deduce the desperate Jody to edit the film by challenging her to bring a smart female point of view to the sexual content in the movies, which is the crucial element needed for the film to cross-over into the mainstream.
At first horrified by the prospect of exposing herself to the cochroaches of the film industry, not to mention the effect it would have on her strict Jewish paretns.
Jody has a remarkable change of heart when she realises that grind has all she needs to make her own low budget movie - on the sly of course.
Judy rationslises taking the job on the grounds that 'the means justify the ends' - by editing porn during the day she'll be able to make meaningful art at night.
At first Jody's plan seems to be working out - she prepares to shoot her film after hours and her parents, happyily think that she has a respectable job, but things get complicated when Jody meets Heff Drake (Matt Davis), the charming Herr Director of porn.
Jeff, also an award winning filmmaker, once had his own dreams of making real films but now is a hard worn cynic who masks his disappointment behind a facade of irony.
In Jody he sees the idealism he once had while Jody starts to face her own sexual hang ups.
When Jody starts making her own low budget romantic comedy at night she hires Laura (Demise Richards), a sweet ingenue who questions Jody's preconceptions about love and sex and gradually ispires Jody to embrace her growing attraction to Jeff.
Starring: Leelee Sobieski, Denise Richards, Jamie Kennedy, Donna-Marie Recco, P.J. Byrne