Coming of Age

1984

Coming Of Age is a sex comedy where confused nun Angel (Angela Menzies-Wills) falls for sexually-explicit rock star Rexx Rated (David Evans) and they get married. Rexx loves her so much that gives up making raunchy music for her and reinvents himself as a religious act which pisses off his manager Deaky (Mark Neal). But this is not enough as they are not clicking in bed not helped by her inexperience. Angel sees the signs everywhere of her burgeoning sexuality including with Rexx's dancer Miss Delicious (Deanna Somers) and numerous people she meets on a day out around Melbourne. They include a terrible taxi driver (David Argue), a man who is following her suspiciously (Vernon Wells), a salesman (Steven Tandy) at a clothes shop and a perverted ice cream man from her past (Robert Forza). It is then suggested to her that she should visit a notorious sex therapist Madame Yoni (Margot Randal) who may unlock the key to her problems with Rexx. She is then invited to visit a mysterious man for a night she'll never forget.

Absolutely rubbish sex comedy that is influenced by 70s British sex comedies but it is completely unfunny but worse, most of the sexy stuff is boring and labourious. The movie begins with a reasonable idea but once the sex starts it becomes tiring and repetitive. Then the comedy starts and the movie becomes irredeemable. David Argue starts his exhausting act and it devolves from there to being total unfunny. Then there's the bizarre sound effects done for comedic effect that are grotesque and don't fit the movie at all. Angela Menzies-Wills gets an upgrade to the lead role after years of playing small sexpot roles and while she perfectly fine as a sexpot, she's not much of an actress and struggles particularly during the comedy bits. There's also a whole lot of narration from Angela when things aren't boring enough. Evans, who's probably best known as the AC/DC frontman before Bon Scott, doesn't have much to do and disappears for a whole lot of the movie which isn't a bad thing as he's also not much of an actor but he does a lot better in the stage scenes/music videos. The music is actually the best part of the movie with some catchy songs throughout including the title song. It's a shame that the movie doesn't focus much more on this aspect. Coming Of Age is a poor movie with an uninteresting story but worse than all, boring sexy stuff, a crime for a sex comedy.

I think that this is Angela Menzies-Wills's only lead role but I have capped her in some of her other sexpot roles such as Felicity and Nightmares. I should get around to her other movies over time. Most of the other sexpots in the movie are one and dones except for Margaret Dupre (Centrespread), who I came across in a very recent post where her daughter made a short film called Stripped about an incident in their life. She was played by, of all actresses, Katheryn Winnick.

I capped this from a VHS rip and it's actually one of the better rips I've come across although I did have an issue with the first five minutes that I managed to get around for the one video it coincided with. Thankfully, as there's over 35 minutes of videos below. I was going to do collages but I just couldn't be bothered but I might do a few over time. Doubtful something better will come along as this movie is long forgotten and of no interest to pretty much anyone but at least there's some decent quality VHS videos below.

Angela Menzies-Wills and others film clips (collages below)

Angela Menzies-Wills

Angela Menzies-Wills and Deanna Somers

Deanna Somers

Angie Rowland

Margaret Dupre

Nadine

Others