Suradit
Couldn't believe the comment in one other review: " Asian men are never portrayed as the central love interest, or god forbid SEXY." Then I realized that the review was written 7 years ago... and in America.There are now sooooooooo many fantastic Asian films with Asian men as the central love interest and unquestionably they are overwhelmingly,devastatingly sexy, which is more than can be said for this crew. More importantly the films are interesting, well-acted, well-directed, shot in the real world (as opposed to someone's basement) and did I mention, well-acted.Most of these far superior movies were produced in Asia, for example, Soundless Wind Chime, 15, City without Baseball, Eternal Summer, My Fair Son, Bangkok Love Story ... to name a few. Not high budget, but beautifully presented and with meaningful stories... and with high quality acting even if the central characters are amateurs or even just kids off the street.Under One Roof is like a badly acted '50's soap opera or a high school production. I'm not sure which is worse, when they appear to be reading their lines in monotones or when they suddenly try to add some (generally inappropriate) emotion while reading their lines. The main character seems to only employ annoyed whining as his style, no matter what the situation. There is no sense of interaction between the actors.I can't imagine that even 5 or 10 years ago this would have been more than an embarrassing amateurish production.
dgodowd
Perhaps the most unwatchable film every produced. The viewer should be paid to watch it. The "actors" were clearly pulled at random from the local grocery store, moving woodenly and delivering their lines as if reading from cue cards. Yes, it would be nice to have gay actors playing gay characters, but unfortunately there are no actors in this movie.But wait, there's also the superlative camera work, which appears to have been executed by someone in a post-ictal stupor. The camera drifts lazily from one side of the room to the other, occasionally capturing an "actor" delivering a line.The production "values" fall below an average 3rd grade holiday pageant and the "script" is non-existent.The soundtrack alternates between languid guitar strains from a douche commercial and some of the harshest keyboard work ever heard that overstays it's welcome after 10 seconds.If you're a glutton for punishment, had your cable cut off, no longer own a broadcast antenna and this is the ONLY DVD left in your collection, you should still avoid this movie.
kire106
This movie sucked, I expected badly made softcore smut, but this was sad sad porn, all I kept waiting for was for Robert to drop his pants, and he never did, instead we had to settle for flaccid dicks from a couple of naturalists, and a bad shot of the obligatory queen in the movie. AWFUL. I don't expect these movies to be good, but at least I expect them to be interesting, and the only interesting thing about Under One Roof, were the two guys making out behind me at the theater. Can I just ask? what's up with all the tickling? what are they five? and lets not talk about the technical aspects, because I've seen better acting in regional theater. the only intentionally funny thing in the flick was the grandmother, although the main character's shortcomings got me chuckling a few times.
kh98021
Okay, if you are looking for slick Hollywood production values, skip this one. But the film does have sweetness, charm & sincerity. The acting and writing are uneven at best, but I thought James Marks as the boarder Robert was charming & sexy. Yes, "The Wedding Banquet" is a superior film that covers much of the same territory. But "Under One Roof" has its honest pleasures as well.
AD
