Trick

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Summary: Love it!
Review: This is one of my favorite of all time movies! I watch it often. A cute story about meeting someone and falling in love with out the usual and typical sex and swearing of most movies. I enjoyed Tori Spelling's performance. I reconmend it for all.

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Summary: This is one of the best movies i have ever seen!
Review: Trick is the best movie i have seen in a long time. It shows that all gay people aren't stereotypical. The love story is amazing. The two actors really clicked on screen. The ending made me so happy. I think that everyone should own this movie!

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Summary: This is my new favorite movie!
Review: Let me add my positive review to the many which have already been posted here. This movie was put together so well on so many different levels... some of the nuances you catch only after seeing it two or three times. Christian Campbell almost perfectly captures the subtleties of being interested, but shy. He knows what he wants, but he's hesitant on how to go about getting it. Frankly, I think he just nailed the part. Tori Spelling blew me away with her performance as an aspiring actres who is long on ambition, yet sadly short on talent. Her manic "cheese fries" breakdown scene in the all-night diner is destined to be talked about in indie movie circles for awhile! The supporting cast in this movie was outstanding, and the leads were all up to the task. "Trick" doesn't beat you over the head with gay themes, just the story of two PEOPLE who think there might be a connection between them. By the time the movie is drawing to its close, and Mark and Gabe finally get to share a kiss, you are just wanting to cheer for them. It's one of the most tender and sweet moments of longing and romance I've ever seen in any movie. Do yourself a favor and see "Trick." :)

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Summary: trick
Review: I thought trick was very real to how gay dating can be. If your not a golden adonis you get look over alot. I was surprised by Tori Spelling's performance it was real and very emotional. Christian Campbell and John Paul Pitoc were very believeable as two gay men searcing for companionship. This movie for me was not about sex but about finding the one true love that makes you forget we live in a world of hatred and discrimination.

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Summary: charming romantic comedy
Review: As a genre still virtually in its infancy, the `gay romantic comedy' (a term that sure doesn't mean what it used to) unquestionably has a long way to go to catch up to its heterosexual equivalent. With `Trick,' this process takes a few giant steps forward. This may not be the crossover film many right-minded people might wish it to be, but it goes a long way towards showing that there is actually a benefit to making gay-themed romantic films. Viewing romance from a gay perspective, in and of itself, helps to refresh some of the staleness that has inevitably seeped into the genre over decades of straight variants on the subject. Even though the particulars may be different, the universals remain the same - yet, somehow, it is those very differences that make us take a second look at the conventions in fresh and exciting ways. For instance, I defy anyone to come up with a more purely romantic and emotionally uplifting scene than the final extended tracking shot of this film. No film in recent memory has more beautifully captured the pure, life-transforming moment of dawning love better than this one does in that special extended moment at the end. It reminds us of just how intensely straight love stories used to move us, long before they became tired and we became cynical.

As in most movie comedy romances, the plot of the film is a very simple one. Gabe is a shy, almost socially backward young musical comedy composer, living in Greenwich Village with a straight roommate who makes Gabe sleep outside while he, himself, entertains, seemingly on a nightly basis, a parade of willing young ladies. Though Gabe frequents gay bars, he seems unable to find a comfortable niche in the high-speed gay world he finds there. Then, one night, Gabe meets on the subway his virtual opposite, a muscular hunk named Mark who works as a `go-go boy' at a local bar and who exudes the kind of raw sexuality and high-stepping confidence that makes him attractive to many of the area's men including, not so incidentally, Gabe as well. The hook of the film is that Gabe and Mark, once they acknowledge their mutual attraction to each other, are constantly thwarted in their attempts at finding a place to consummate their one-night-stand - and, that, as the night wears on and a new day dawns, they both discover that their feelings for each other have deepened considerably beyond mere casual physical attraction and immediate sexual need.

One of the factors that lends depth to this film and makes it more than just mere romantic puffery is that it does not deny the reality of its context. It deals head-on with the issue of casual sex vs. committed relationships while remaining lighthearted and non-judgmental in the process. Moreover, writer Jason Schafer and director Jim Fall demonstrate an ear for naturalistic speech, often finding humor and poignancy in the very same line of dialogue. They have surrounded the two main figures with a bevy of offbeat, slightly quirky characters who make up Gabe and Mark's worlds in the form of best friends, roommates, former lovers, business associates etc. Tori Spelling does a delightful turn as Gabe's ditzy ex-girlfriend and current best friend who feels conflicted over her own romantic feelings for this man she knows will never love her as she would like him to. The women are not brain surgeons in this film (Gabe's roommate's girlfriend is another case in point), but they sure are likeable.

In fact, likeability is probably `Trick's biggest selling point and in no area of the film is this quality more beautifully captured than in the performances of Christian Campbell and J.P. Pitoc as Gabe and Mark, respectively. Campbell conveys the goodnatured shyness and sexual awkwardness of Gabe with a warmhearted subtlety that is truly infectious. Pitoc also manifests the sweetness and intelligence that initially lie hidden beneath the veneer of his sexually-assured, almost dumb-jock exterior. It is the ever emerging depth in Mark's character that wins Gabe over to his side - and us as well.

And then we have that great closing scene! It reminds us all - gay, straight or whatever - just how transcendent that moment of burgeoning true love can be. As Gabe walks towards the camera, smiling and peering out at his world with that look that tells us that the objects in it have suddenly been transformed into magical sources of wonder, our hearts go with him. We care about how this relationship will turn out - and, if that is not the mark of a successful movie romance, I don't know what is.

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Summary: Treat Yourself to Trick
Review: This film grabbed my attention and held onto it throughout its length. It is an honest portrayal of two good looking gay men, a bland creative type and a handsome player, who just want to get it on, but find out that beyond their lust lies a more substantive reason for their mutual attraction. This is definitely a purchase for your private library, not a one-time rental.

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Summary: Chalkboard
Review: If you like nails on a chalkboard, you'll love this one. The main characters failure to make a decision is annoying and detracting. Nice idea gone painfully bad.

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Summary: BUY THIS MOVIE
Review: This is one of the best modern day movies that I have seen. Well worth the investment (great music, great looking cast, great script!) This one deserves a place in the DVD cabinet.

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Summary: My opinion about Trick
Review: I find it intriguing that the defining gay love story, possibly of all time, that marks the decisive cut off point between yesterday and tomorrow, was played to absolute perfection by two straight men. It's all the more remarkable because the chemistry between them (at least as they played their characters) was so marked and so pronounced that I seriously doubt that anybody else could have played those parts that well. To quote Shakespeare: "There comes a time in the affairs of men, when, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their lives is lost in misery and defeat". Mssrs. Campbell and Pitoc simply rode that tide in a manner so definite that I can only believe the pairing was total serendipity ( Roger Ebert to the contrary). I have watched Trick far more in the few weeks I've had the movie than I've ever watched any other in my entire life. I think if this movie had been around when I was 17, my entire life could have been different. The straight reviewers who panned this movie either are totally lacking in empathy, or simply too homophobic to appreciate how deeply it cuts to the very core of what being gay is all about. Gay people are romantics. The typical one-night stand with a "trick" is actually an overt manifestation of their desire for true intimacy which helps cover up the fact that real intimacy is so seldom allowed to exist by the society around them. What, after all, is love? Watching Trick, you come to the realization that love is not gender specific. It is an attribute of being human that is possible between any two people who are attracted to each other regardless of age, race, sex or any other irrelevencies that are usually thrown up as obstacles. Trick is not so much gay-affirming as it is life-affirming. ___________________________________________

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Summary: Wonderful...!
Review: This movie was incrdible. It was warm and wonderful and emotional and fulfilling and... everything! Every step of the way I felt tied to the characters. I identified with Gabe, adored Mark, and got fed up with Gabe's "neurotic best friend" Katherine (played by Tori Spelling; I swear, this part was MADE for her!) Technically the movie is just as incredible, with great music and filmwork, a beautiful story, and deep characters. Hats off to everyone who helped make this movie. C'est tres fab!