I find it difficult to confirm, and especially to share, that "Pretty Peaches" was its creator, filmmaker Alex De Renzy's, favorite film. This is especially true considering that among his most notable works are important works such as "Femmes de Sade" (1976), "Babyface" (1977), and "Wild Things" (1985). Although the film features high doses of buddy humor and unbridled sex, it's no less true that Desiree Cousteau's sensational voluptuousness is completely overshadowed by her exasperating pseudo-dramatic overacting, based on whining and furious screaming for much of the story, especially in a jarring ending.

The plot is taken from Voltaire's literary classic, "Candide, ou l'Optimisme" (1759), about a naive young man who is manipulated by everyone. This story was made famous by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's daring adaptation, "Candy," a satirical novel that parodies Voltaire's "Candide..." in a story about a naive young woman who finds herself involved in ludicrous sexual situations within the hippie world of the late 1960s. In this case, Peaches is a naive and good-natured young woman from San Francisco who arrives in a California town to attend her father's (John Leslie) second wedding to Lily (the ebony Flower). The daughter's jealousy of her father's love leads her to get drunk and speed off in her Jeep Golden Eagle, suffering a crash in the desert that results in amnesia due to the trauma. The friends Kid and Terry (Joey Silvera and Ken Scudder, respectively), a pair of hustlers with more testosterone than skill, set out to abuse Peaches and her circumstances to gain credit by prolonging their new friend's recovery as much as possible.