Friend of the Family

Friend of the Family, also known as Elke's Erotic Nights or simply Elke, is a 1995 American erotic drama film written and directed by Edward Holzman, and starring Shauna O'Brien & Griffin Drew.^[1]

Friend of the Family
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Directed by	Edward Holzman
Screenplay by	Edward Holzman April Moskowitz
Produced by	Andrew W. Garroni
Starring	Shauna O'Brien Griffin Drew Burke Morgan Lisa Boyle
Cinematography	Kim Haun
Edited by	Sean Valla
Music by	Richard Bronskill
Release date	1995 (1995)
Running time	103 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Plot

A married couple, Linda and Jeff, are trying to get their relationship under control. They do not communicate with each other much; Jeff is a workaholic and Linda thinks he is cheating on her. Linda and Jeff are both having trouble talking to Jeff's two college-aged children, Montana and Josh, from his first marriage. They then meet Elke, the younger sister of one of Linda's old friends. Elke, who is free-spirited and sexually uninhibited, begins interacting with most of the members of the family, emotionally and romantically, with a new openness and communication between them as the unexpected result.

Cast

• Shauna O'Brien as Elke Taylor
• Griffin Drew (credited as Annelyn Griffin Drew) as Linda Williams Stillman
• Burke Morgan (credited as C.T. Miller) as Jeff Stillman
• Lisa Boyle (credited as Lissa Boyle) as Montana Stillman
• Will Potter as Josh Stillman
• Raelyn Saalman as Laura Kellogg
• Alex Demir as Ron Kellogg
• Betsy Monroe as Nancy Kellogg

Reception

Friend of the Family currently has no approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but the Want-To-See is currently 62%. TV Guide gave the movie one out of five stars.^[2]

Sequel

Friend of the Family II
Directed by	Fred Olen Ray
Release date	1996 (1996)
Country	USA
Language	English

In 1996, an unrelated movie called Passionate Revenge was released with Shauna O'Brien. For marketing purposes it was rebranded a sequel entitled Friend of the Family II directed by Fred Olen Ray (credited as Nicholas Medina). In this movie, Shauna O'Brien plays a femme fatale character named Linda.^[3]