Jody Davis

A second trailer for Finding Bliss. Finding Bliss is a cutting edge romantic comedy that explores the adult film industry through the eyes of an idealistic 25 year-old award-winning film school grad, Jody Balaban (Leelee Sobieski), new to Los Angeles. After a long humbling year temping as a traffic cop on a studio lot, Jody is faced with the hard decision of taking the only well-paying industry job she has yet been offered editing porn at Grind Productions, a profitable X-rated company run by former porn star and shrewd business-woman Irene Fox (Kristen Johnston). Irene explains that Grind is embarking on their first real movie, which they plan to release in art-house theaters across the country. The consummate saleswoman, she attempts to seduce the desperate Jody to edit the film by challenging her to bring a smart female point of view to the sexual content in the movie, which is the crucial element needed for the film to cross-over into the mainstream. At first horrified by the prospect of exposing herself to the cockroaches of the film industry, not to mention the effect it would have on her strict Jewish parents, Jody has a remarkable change of heart when she realizes that Grind has all the facilities she needs to make her own low budget movie on the sly of course. Jody rationalizes taking the job on the grounds that the means justify the ends by editing porn during the day, she ll be able to make meaningful art at night. At first, Jody s plan seems to be working out she prepares to shoot her film after hours and her parents happily think she has a respectable job - but things get complicated when Jody meets Jeff Drake (Matt Davis), the charming Herr Director of porn. Jeff, also an award-winning filmmaker, once had his own dreams of making real films, but now is a hard-worn cynic who masks his disappointment behind a fa ade of irony. In Jody, he sees the idealism he once had, while Jody starts to face her own sexual hang-ups as she begins to g