Pretty Peaches

{{short description|1978 film by Alex de Renzy}}

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| name = Pretty Peaches

| image = File:Pretty Peaches Poster.jpg

| caption = Theatrical release poster

| director = Alex de Renzy

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| starring = {{Plainlist|

• Desireé Cousteau
• John Leslie
• Paul Thomas
• Juliet Anderson

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| studio = Blu-Pix

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| released = {{Film date|1978|11|23|USA}}

| runtime = 91 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

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Pretty Peaches is a 1978 American pornographic comedy film directed by Alex de Renzy and released during the Golden Age of Porn. The film stars Desireé Cousteau as Peaches, described as "a daffy carefree female who cheerfully plunges through life without any worries." In the film, she has a car accident after attending the wedding of her father (John Leslie) and is rendered unconscious. She is found by two men who take advantage of her, before offering to help her when it becomes apparent that she has amnesia.{{cite web|url=http://www.gamelinkk.com/display_product.jhtml?lid=listEntry&lpos=1-2&ref=gla1282&id=269124&navAction=jump |title=Pretty Peaches plot summary |website=www.gamelinkk.com |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130123201222/http://www.gamelinkk.com/display_product.jhtml?lid=listEntry&lpos=1-2&ref=gla1282&id=269124&navAction=jump |archive-date=2013-01-23}}

Pretty Peaches was likely influenced by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's Candy, itself often perceived as a homage to Voltaire's Candide.{{cite web|title=All-American Deep-Dish Comedy: PRETTY PEACHES (1978)|url=http://explodingkinetoscope.blogspot.com/2006/09/all-american-deep-dish-comedy-pretty.html|date=1 September 2006|website=The Exploding Kinetoscope|accessdate=27 September 2013}}

While the film features sexual violence, including lesbian rape and a forced enema in a public rest-room{{spaced ndash}} a sequence that was excised from most video releases{{spaced ndash}} the film's tongue-in-cheek attitude keeps it up-beat. The Astronics/Telecine, Ltd. VHS release of the film is un-cut with the forced enema scene intact. Cousteau received the Adult Film Association of America Best Actress award in 1978 for her performance in the movie.{{cite magazine|title=Silver Spoonfuls: A Star Is Porn |magazine=High Society |date= November 1979 |pages=8–9}}{{cite magazine|first=Jules |last=Griffon |title=The Third Annual Erotica Awards |magazine=Adam Film World |volume=7 |number=8 |date=January 1980 |pages=24–27}}

The success of the film spawned two sequels, both directed by de Renzy: Pretty Peaches 2 (1988) and Pretty Peaches and the Quest (1991) with Siobhan Hunter and Keisha in the title role of the 1988 and 1991 films, respectively.