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Summary: If you like "Tales of the City" you are going to like this.
Review: I enjoyed this movie. If you have high expectations on a great movie, you may need to take it down a notch or two. Larry Sullivan, did a great job playing Alan, a character spanning elever years. His scene on top of a car doing a semi-striptease act was hilarious yet almost erotic. Granted, this movie comes off like Tales of the City. It sometimes tries to emulate Dynasty toward the middle of the movie a little too much. Nonetheless, after watching the movie, I really missed the fact there wasn't more of Alan and Tommy (okay, maybe a little more of Alan) together in the film. The chemistry between the two was remarkable, and if you can ignore the wigs Tommy uses in the early parts of the movie, you will probably agree. To be perfectly honest, I wasn't expecting a great movie, but to my surprise, I was thoroughly satisfied.
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Summary: SO TOUCHING AND FUNNY AND WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: This is now my favorite DVD that I own.
I love it so much.
I have watched it three times already.
The actors are so lovable I want to know them for real.
FIVE STARS
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Summary: Nice try, but...
Review: Great premise.
Bad script.
Wooden acting.
Bad wigs.
Save your money.
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Summary: Fantastic movie!!!!
Review: Moving love story! Entertaining, emotional...this film will take you back to memories of your first love, you know - the one who in your youth brought you out of your closet kicking and screaming. The Trip is a romantic comedy that manages to show love at its best and worst, deepest and shallowest, most joyous and most tragic.
It's an hour and a half in the dark after which you won't lament the price of admission. In this era of TV-show adaptations and There's Something About Mary rip-off's, this renders it just shy of a gem. The triumphs and tragedies of love, not to mention a host of uncomfortable social situations, transcend the era of the film and create scenarios with which most gay men can relate.
Sirena Irwin is hilarious as Alan's hippie chick lover turned power yuppie entrepreneur. MTV alumnus Julie Brown turns in a totally gnarly cameo as a receptionist with a flare for eighties style. But former Bond girl Jill St. John steals the show in her supporting role as Alan's meddlesome, liberal, and alcoholic mom. Finally something bigger than just a movie. Finally a gay romantic comedy that is not about two boys meeting-cute-and spending twenty four hours in extended, cheesy bliss. The Trip aspires to be a gayer version of The Way We Were.The Trip follows two men (wonderfully played by Larry Sullivan and Steve Braun), as they meet through recent gay history. Watching their {Tommy & Alan} tentative attempts to reconcile time and distance is alternately sweet and heart wrenching. A touching love story, The Trip is also an entertaining, Cliff's Notes version of the history of gay rights and the evolution of the gay community.
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Summary: Funny & touching
Review: Very entertaining- funny, sad, romantic, dramatic, and moving- what more could anyone ask for? The main characters were all very likeable and easy to relate to. I do wonder why it was rated "R"- probably because the main characters are gay. I would recommend this movie to anyone- especially teens & young adults- if only to show that gay men have the same hopes, dreams, and faults as anyone else.
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Summary: Shockingly Boring!
Review: My partner & I bought this Movie as we believed the reviews that we read online. what a mistake. Bad dialogue, uninteresting chararacters, and even worse wigs! The only good thing about this film was Jill St John. She was a hoot. be warned this movie is crap! I made myself watch this till the end just in case it got better. Will never watch it again.
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: Thankfully, I rented this before purchasing. Smart move on my part! What a disapponting film. The writer/director clearly had the money to make a good movie, it just wan't spent on the script. No idea why this movie is getting good reviews. I don't drop my expectations simply because a movie is low budget or has a gay theme. This movie disappoints in every aspect.
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Summary: Best movie in a long time
Review: The Trip is a journey into gay pride. Written in a manner so that every issue in the gay liberation movement profoundly affects Tommy and Alan's relationship-and vice versa- "The Trip" is a diverting melodrama with campy interludes. The amusement quotient is boosted by the film's cavalcade of Brady Bunch hairstyles, Dynasty duds, and newsreels heroizing gay San Francisco Councilman Harvey Milk and vilifying antigay crusader Anita Bryant. Charismatic performances {by} Braun and Sullivan.An ambitious gay romance. As Tommy, Steve Braun is the wisecracking, fresh-faced boyfriend we all wish we'd had at least once in our lives, while watching Larry Sullivan's Alan come to terms with who he is and what he is meant to do with his life is bound to give viewers spontaneous pangs of empathy. Both bring great warmth and sex appeal to their roles. Writer-director Miles Swain hits a homerun on just about all levels in his first full-length effort. Likewise, strong supporting roles are extravagantly played adding to the film's endearing feel. Among them, Alexis Arquette is Tommy's stereotypically flamboyant roommate, and Jill St. John is Alan's ex-showgirl-turned-alcoholic mother. Perhaps most effective though, is Sirena Irwin as the trendy Beverly. Swain cleverly uses her to demonstrate the passage of time, first presenting her as a "dippy-hippy" flower child (in stark contrast to Alan's intense, button-down yuppie-in-training;) then re-defining her as a fitness obsessed disco-queen circa 1976, and finally a materialistic "Alexis Carrington" wannabe in the 80's. "The Trip" is the perfect film to take that special someone whom you'd like to start something meaningful with-or better yet, someone who you USED to have something meaningful with (and who knows where its pure magic will take you.) This film is deeply moving in a truly surprising way. That's the mark of a filmmaker of talent, from whom greater things should be seen in the very near future. This film was shot in 21 days with under a million dollars. I'm impressed
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Summary: Derivative Drivel
Review: Like others below, I got this movie based on the many positive reviews. It wasn't even CLOSE to good, and it left me feeling ashamed for gay cinema that something like this garners high praise. Then again, if your only experience of gay culture is "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," maybe this is your cup of tea. The movie doesn't seem to know what it wants to be, and end up a jumble of so many other films and themes that just don't connect (and what a ripoff of Greg Araki's work...not to mention the glaringly obvious yet meaningless Thelma and Louise nods). Character motivation doesn't make any sense; there are obviously scenes left out; and most of the writing is merely two characters discussing what has happened in their lives (far be it from the moviemaker to actually SHOW us some of these pivotal and probably far more interesting scenes). All in all, a dismal disappointment. If you want to see what great gay cinema is all about, get BIG EDEN, which is a far superior film.
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Summary: The Trip
Review: Boy, did I want to like this movie. A road trip spanning the 70's and the 80's - the politics, the drama, the memories.
Instead I got a poorly acted, badly directed and dismally written film. What a missed opportunity! The brunt of the blame, in my opinion, goes to the writer/director, who couldn't decide if he was writing/directing a drama, a comedy, a dramady or a gay Thelma and Louise. So what we get is disjointed film filled with a hodge-podge of stale ideas, actors who seem lost most of the time (Arquette, a fine gay indie actor, is totally wasted in this film!) and badly contructed scenes that never manage to be sad or funny or anything at all, for that matter.
Sad, sad, sad.
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