Nicole Ari Parker and Laurel Holloman topless in The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1996)

This is a low-budget romantic dramedy about an interracial lesbian couple, and a pretty good movie, undeservedly forgotten. (See Tuna’s review below.)

The story of two girls, Randy and Evie. Randy is a low economic class lesbian living with other lesbians including her aunt. Evie is a wealthy, popular girl with a boyfriend. When Evie befriends Randy, she begins to feel a passion for her she’s never felt before. What follows is a sweet, tender romance between the two while Evie is cast away by her friends and Randy is chided by her family. The two don’t care, though, because they are in love.

Both of the young women went on to solid careers.

Laurel Holloman had more of a niche career. She continued to be involved in lesbian projects. She is best known for her work in L Word, where she was topless starting in the pilot (below). She re-created that role in the recent L-Word sequel, Generation Q.

You probably know who Nicole Ari Parker is. She has had major mainstream success, appearing in several films and what seems to be every series. She has done several nude scenes, including:

Following the jump is Tuna’s informative review of The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love.

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The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love (1995) is a coming of age romantic comedy about two High School seniors who fall in love. One is white, has very little money, works in a filling station after work, likes classic rock, and doesn’t do well in school. The other is black, wealthy, spoiled and privileged. Pretty standard stuff, except that they are both girls.

Laurel Holloman is out, lives with her butch aunt, her aunts girlfriend, and an ex of her aunt. Nicole Parker lives with her upper class mother, and is one of the in crowd at school. They meet at the gas station, then again in the girls room at school. Eventually, they managed to progress from friends to sweethearts to lovers.

The film was written and directed by Maria Maggenti, and she has revealed that much of the story was autobiographical. She dedicated the movie to her first girlfriend.

It was made for a minuscule $65K. It was shot on 16 mm and edited using an old fashioned cut-and-splice technique with no effects at all. The film looks like it was shot on 35mm – and shot well at that, and the smooth editing, despite the fact that they couldn’t afford the time or money for coverage and establishing shots, made it a very watchable film.

The entire film worked for me, partly because I could relate to most of the elements of young first love, but mainly because of a great job by the two talented actresses, and amazingly good production value, given the non-existent budget.