Republician senator Jack Kray (Michael Lerner) and his wife Eunice (Karen Allen) want to get their son to introduce him at a rally. The problem is that son Henry (Matt Newton) hates his father and is hiding the fact that he's gay. He falls in love with activist Anthony (Jack Noseworthy) and things come to a head.
PLOT SPOILERS!!! Pretty bad indie film. The plot is obvious and meandering and the film takes detours into various other plot lines that seem to have nothing to do with the main story (I'm still trying to figure out what Izzy is doing here). Also there's a guy on guy kiss at the end which IS necessary for the story--but it's so obvious that the guys AREN'T kissing on the lips (that guy is being kissed on the cheek) that its impact doesn't come across at all. I realize the actors probably aren't gay but that's no excuse. Kissing a guy on the lips is not going to destroy your career. It's also badly shot with lousy direction, horrendous editing and terrible lighting (everybody looks washed out). To make matters worse there's annoying "music" and sounds on the soundtrack that are more distracting than anything else. The final nail in the coffin was terrible acting. Allen and Lerner are OK but Noseworthy is bad and Newton is TERRIBLE! I don't care how good-looking he is--he can't act. He is obviously not gay and seems very uncomfortable in the role. As I said before he couldn't even kiss a guy on the lips. Aside from all that it's deadly dull. I dozed off 45 minutes into the film!
On the plus side some of the guys were cute and shown in their underwear (no nudity though) and the last 30 minutes are actually pretty good--but that's too little too late. A few good speeches at the end can't save this one. Slow, boring and condescending. Avoid. I give this a 2.
PLOT SPOILERS!!! Pretty bad indie film. The plot is obvious and meandering and the film takes detours into various other plot lines that seem to have nothing to do with the main story (I'm still trying to figure out what Izzy is doing here). Also there's a guy on guy kiss at the end which IS necessary for the story--but it's so obvious that the guys AREN'T kissing on the lips (that guy is being kissed on the cheek) that its impact doesn't come across at all. I realize the actors probably aren't gay but that's no excuse. Kissing a guy on the lips is not going to destroy your career. It's also badly shot with lousy direction, horrendous editing and terrible lighting (everybody looks washed out). To make matters worse there's annoying "music" and sounds on the soundtrack that are more distracting than anything else. The final nail in the coffin was terrible acting. Allen and Lerner are OK but Noseworthy is bad and Newton is TERRIBLE! I don't care how good-looking he is--he can't act. He is obviously not gay and seems very uncomfortable in the role. As I said before he couldn't even kiss a guy on the lips. Aside from all that it's deadly dull. I dozed off 45 minutes into the film!
On the plus side some of the guys were cute and shown in their underwear (no nudity though) and the last 30 minutes are actually pretty good--but that's too little too late. A few good speeches at the end can't save this one. Slow, boring and condescending. Avoid. I give this a 2.