Richard
LeMay, as director and writer of “Naked As We Came”, brings nothing to
the genre except a bunch of cliches and many nature ‘artistic’ shots. He
has added a political plot that only muddies the story leaving more
than one viewer with questions.

We
have two adult children, Elliot (Ryan Vigilant) and Laura (Karmine
Alers) visiting a mother, they haven’t seen in a year and a half, who is
dying of cancer and right up front admits she wasn’t the best of
mothers. She was more interested in her orchids than her children. She
was married to a man who was a womanizer and interested in making making
and he did. Lilly, (Lue McWilliams), the mother, lives in an estate in
upper New York having a small and a large greenhouse, the latter filled
with fresh grown vegetables and resides in house that has enough windows
and skylights to keep a window washer busy all year. Unknown
to the children a young man, Ted (Benjamin Weaver), has been living
with their mother as a combination of groundskeeper, who kills her
orchids, makes meals for them both and a caretaker, for 6 months but,
contrary to what the children think, there is nothing sexual about the
relationship and he has a secret.

Laura,
10 years older than Elliot, and her brother own a very lucrative
laundry business left to them by their father. She is very controlling
and recently divorced her husband while he is an excellent cook, taking
after his father, and lost in his personal life. Lilly is leaving the
house and estate to Elliot and a beach house to Laura but first wants to
apologize to both for not being more of a mother to them and hopes to
see them take better paths than they have so far. She is full of wisdom
and weed, for them and Ted.
Elliot and Ted have sex the first night the former is there which
upsets Laura and pleases Lilly. The only surprise in the film is where
the affair leads.

The
sex scene is handled as artistically as the nature scenes, including
many shots, too many, of white, fluffy clouds showing a lot more of the
latter than the former. There are also mouth watering scenes of both
guys chopping various vegetables and making meals.

The
acting by all is adequate though Lue McWilliams’ black turban outfit
has your mind wandering off to “Sunset Boulevard” and Norma Desmond.
Both Vigilant and Weaver are eye candy though the former smiles to much
which looks like smirks. Karmine Alers is strong as Laura and does an
acappella song without embarrassing herself.

There is nothing in “Naked As We Come” you haven’t seen before in a movie.