Last year Greg Lansky’s elegant IR erotica on Blacked.com burst on the scene, with Dani Daniels Deeper picking up an AVN Award for Best Interracial Release. This year Lansky’s ambitions have grown to feature-length proportions. With a script co-written by Lansky and Dana Vespoli, Carter Cruise Obsession delves into the inner life of its lead character—and the magnetically appealing Cruise is more than capable of bringing out all the nuances.

Rich girl Kate (Cruise) is engaged to Brad (Michael Vegas); he's successful, smart and handsome, but she’s feeling restless and dissatisfied. When she accompanies Brad on a business trip to Palm Springs, her discontent pushes her into action. Finding herself alone at the pool with two handsome and charming black men, Michael and Jason (Flash Brown and Jason Brown), she’s ready for a little fun—which leads to a two-fisted blowjob in the pool shower room.

Once the erotic floodgates open, Kate can’t stop. Then next day she hooks up with Flash. Wearing delicate matching blue bra, panties and stockings, she warms up with lots of kissing—and things get a lot hotter once Flash breaches her back door.

Feeling neglected again when Brad heads to London on business, Kate brings both Flash and Jason to L.A. for a wild night in her high-rise apartment, with a sexual menu that includes a cream pie. It's a night, she says in the well-done narration, that she'll remember forever.

Two more IR scenes follow: one boy/girl pairing and a climactic threesome with Rob Piper and Riley Reid, playing Kate’s swinger friend. But just a list of the sexual antics doesn’t do justice to Obsession. The movie is far more than a way to scratch a sexual itch for fans of the IR genre. The quality of the visuals, the soundtrack and the narrative twist at the end make the appeal of this much broader, earning it shelf space alongside serious erotic features and other couples-friendly fare.