Joe Smith
While I applaud Bellhollow's efforts to help this film, it cannot fix the blatant, and untrue, stereotypical portrayal of gay men, lawyers and Boston (where filmed). The story is not realistic, the acting is beyond poor and the dialogue strained. It has hard to have any empathy for the lead character, portraying a lawyer focused only on the material things without having to do any work. His friends are no better, although they seem to offer something of a Greek chorus with nothing to add. No sympathy for the plain-looking, "good guy" boyfriend, who is just as shallow as the others characters. These are 90 minutes of my life I will never get back.
philip31415
This film is awful. The writing is tolerable but the acting is atrocious. The director was so in love with his own infantile pathos that he includes long long shots of guys looking tragic. If this film had a competent editor, it might have achieved mediocre status. As we saw with the Da Vinci Code, when the main actor is flat or bad, no matter what you do the rest of the movie will fail. And the main actor is not just bad, he is utterly inept. Think of the pathetic attempts at dialog in the 12 seconds of every porn film prior to getting down to business--our main actor is as bad if not worse than that. The only reason I am even bothering to write this review is to talk about the love interest in the film, David Vincent. So far as I can tell, this is his only credit. That's a shame. His performance was subtle and nuanced. If this was his only acting credit, he could have quit his day job and made it as an actor. In the extras on the DVD you can see him reading for another part, the part of the hook up at the very end of the film. That scene in the film is particularly pathetic and tonally wrong; but from the screen test, you can see that if David Vincent had played that part, he could have carried it off with aplomb. Wherever you are, David Vincent, there is no doubt that you could have had a career in film.As for the rest of the folks, including the director, don't quit your day jobs.
RonM
This is a truly awful film. Bad cinematography (I lost count of how many first-year film school rules it broke), bad writing, and an ending that came out of nowhere. The only reason I stayed until the end is that the friend I was with fell asleep.STAY AWAY! Rent Parting Glances or Beautiful Thing if you need to see a good gay movie.
perdita-3
What an amateurish movie. The acting was uniformly stiff and annoying, and the background music was appalling. This movie benefitted from the current vogue for Indy/Gay Cinema, and had it been a movie about a straight cad, it would not have warranted any attention. Moreover, it would be skewered by critics everywhere, and for very valid reasons. I support gay and independent cinema, but not at the expense of credibility. My gay friend and I were happy we saw this movie, if only to repeat its wooden lines and chuckle. This movie is an embarrassment.
AD
