The life of Cassie, a young beautiful and smart girl, who after the death of her mother, returns to her hometown in Beaver's Ridge, where she befriends a group of guys, whom convince her to play an orgy, has been turned upside down.
All of this is sporadically funny and cheerfully tasteless in its low-budget way, but it's also unevenly acted, a bit overlong and never quite as daring as it seems to want to be.
Thematically sweet-natured and narratively salacious, How To Plan An Orgy In A Small Town feels caught between rom-com formula and envelope-pushing debauchery, opting instead for a decent yet inescapably dull middle ground.
What could have been a biting satire pitting small-town conservatism against big-city liberalism, the film plays its suburban sexploits so safely it threatens to say nothing at all.
Opting for gross-out gags and left-field revelations as its main mechanisms for humour, the movie operates with all the subtlety you'd expect from a sex comedy set in a town called Beaver's Ridge.
