The Company You Keep

2004

Johnny's comments:

Back in July of last year I posted an update featuring trailers of movies that have never been released that featured Australian actresses naked. One of the trailers featured former Popstar Chantelle Barry in a 2004 movie called The Company You Keep. The movie never had much in the way of any release and got lost in the flood of movies. And being pretty much a B-movie with no real big names, it didn't seem to attract any interest. Even the director recognised it's lack of being released in a years-old Facebook post.

Well, a viewer of the site managed to track down a DVD of The Company You Keep from a Portuguese seller, going way above and beyond in doing so. The movie is a passable B-thriller made in South Africa but set in America and full of recognisable American actors like Linden Ashby (as one of the leads), Corbin Bernsen and Maria Conchita Alonso (both in small roles) adding that American flavour. Chantelle has the lead female role in her first ever movie and plays a 18 year-old Native American (!) formerly jailbait girlfriend of Nate (Brett Haley) who she helps escape from prison work and they go on the run but with no money, they get stuck with Harry (Linden Ashby) who has a map to riches that everyone wants. As I said, the movie is a passable somewhat sexy B-thriller, nothing special but does the job.

Anyway, Chantelle has 4 nude scenes in the movie but strangely two of those scenes feature Chantelle seemingly wearing patches over her nipples while she doesn't in the two other scenes. First up, Chantelle finally gets to have sex with her boyfriend as they lay low in a brothel and we see her breasts, mostly from the side but it is briefly noticeable that she has patches over her nipples plus her bottom as she sits atop the bloke during sex. A minute or so later we see Chantelle is naked while putting on lipstick in the mirror and Harry comes past and sees her nude but she doesn't blink. Sadly the camera stays just above Chantelle's breasts for this scene but she is clearly naked.

A little while later, Chantelle goes for a swim in a lake naked but we don't really see anything until she exits and dries herself, again with Harry looking at her and we see her bottom and the side of her breast possibly with a patch over the nipple. Again, she is unfazed by Harry looking at her naked.

Chantelle has sex again with her boyfriend quite loudly and the scene is intercut with Harry trying not to listen in to them. We see Chantelle's right breast complete with nipple and her bottom on-and-off throughout. Then a couple of minutes later Chantelle exposes her right breast to Harry attempting to seduce him but he isn't interested. Overall, it's pretty decent nudity from Chantelle despite the patches. Hopefully one day the movie will turn up in HD but the likelihood of that is probably less than zero.

Chantelle Barry film clip (collages below)