Visions of Sugarplums

Rating:
Summary: SURE TO BE A CONTEMPORARY CHRISTMAS CLASSIC!!!
Review: "Visions of Sugarplims" is a wonderful film with a perfect balance of drama, comedy and realism. It's based on Anthony Bruce's critically acclaimed stageplay of the same title which premiered on the stage of a Palm Springs, California theatre in 1998.

Rating:
Summary: SURE TO BE A CONTEMPORARY CHRISTMAS CLASSIC!!!
Review: "Visions of Sugarplums" is a wonderful film with a perfect balance of drama, comedy and realism. It's based on Anthony Bruce's critically acclaimed stageplay of the same title which premiered on the stage of a Palm Springs, California theatre in 1998.

Rating:
Summary: SURE TO BE A CONTEMPORARY CHRISTMAS CLASSIC!!!
Review: "Visions of Sugarplims" is a wonderful film with a perfect balance of drama, comedy and realism. It's based on Anthony Bruce's critically acclaimed stageplay of the same title which premiered on the stage of a Palm Springs, California theatre in 1998.

Rating:
Summary: Worst Home Movie of the Year
Review: Boy, do I feel ripped off.

Even my boyfriend complained within 30 seconds - did they really bother to put a movie like this on DVD? It was obviously filmed on Video, apparently using ambient lighting, using the on-camera microphone (which makes the sounds very muffled). The acting, direction & camerawork is the most amateurish I have ever seen, but when you put it the context of a home video, then it all fits into place. At least the microphone didn't slip into the picture, but that would be very difficult to do, given the microphone must have been the camera's in-built mike. The storyline is incredibly weak (OK, so there's no happy ending, either - just loose ends, out of character with the rest of the movie). The background music is incessant & mostly inappropriate & poorly chosen (I found it annoying after a bit). I love gay movies, but this DVD is an insult - both the movie itself & the DVD presentation. The DVD has probably had more money spent on the interactive menu, than the whole film's budget - it it very pretty, although only one option (play). There are no chapter stops (which is a problem for my Sharp DVD player as its fastest fast-forward is 3x or 4x - not good if you want to stop the film & come back to it later). The movie lasts just 1hr 1min (plus credits).

If you are prepared to pay that much money for a home video quality production, that you have trouble hearing & appears to have an uninteresting story, then OK. I buy almost all gay-themed DVD's that are released, but this is the worst by far. Sad.P>...Unfortunately Amazon won't allow me to give this DVD less than 1 star rating...

Rating:
Summary: Worst Home Movie of the Year
Review: Boy, do I feel ripped off.

Even my boyfriend complained within 30 seconds - did they really bother to put a movie like this on DVD? It was obviously filmed on Video, apparently using ambient lighting, using the on-camera microphone (which makes the sounds very muffled). The acting, direction & camerawork is the most amateurish I have ever seen, but when you put it the context of a home video, then it all fits into place. At least the microphone didn't slip into the picture, but that would be very difficult to do, given the microphone must have been the camera's in-built mike. The storyline is incredibly weak (OK, so there's no happy ending, either - just loose ends, out of character with the rest of the movie). The background music is incessant & mostly inappropriate & poorly chosen (I found it annoying after a bit). I love gay movies, but this DVD is an insult - both the movie itself & the DVD presentation. The DVD has probably had more money spent on the interactive menu, than the whole film's budget - it it very pretty, although only one option (play). There are no chapter stops (which is a problem for my Sharp DVD player as its fastest fast-forward is 3x or 4x - not good if you want to stop the film & come back to it later). The movie lasts just 1hr 1min (plus credits).

If you are prepared to pay that much money for a home video quality production, that you have trouble hearing & appears to have an uninteresting story, then OK. I buy almost all gay-themed DVD's that are released, but this is the worst by far. Sad.P>...Unfortunately Amazon won't allow me to give this DVD less than 1 star rating...

Rating:
Summary: HORRIBLE !
Review: Do not waste your money on this amateur mess of a movie,if you want to call this a movie. everything from A to Z in this mess was done in [an inexpensive]and amateur way....

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Summary: How did this ever get distributed?
Review: I find it so hard to believe that the world is so starved for ... movies that this title needed to be released to the public? It is quite simply one of the worst films I have ever seen. Other than sloppy editing and the addition inappropriate score, there is no post filming production whatsoever.
Don't be fooled by the cover it has nothing to do with the movie.
I do believe the movie has one possible redemption. it could be used to show film students how NOT to make a film on a $1000.00 budget.

Rating:
Summary: Truly Awful!
Review: The most redeeming feature about the movie is that it's short! The movie starts off well, but certainly doesn't deliver on any level.

Rating:
Summary: Truly Awful!
Review: The most redeeming feature about the movie is that it's short! The movie starts off well, but certainly doesn't deliver on any level.

Rating:
Summary: Poorly made movie
Review: The potential was there & at times you can see that they were trying - The sound is so BAD that you cannot always hear/understand what the amatuer actors are saying. I must blame the "director" more than anyone (who was also the producer & star!). If you can make to the ending & digest it all, I think the writer DID have something to say...it just did not happen here. We are all learning...the "problem" with dvd's is that you cannot get your $ back. Truly, at one glance of the finished product, he had a lot of nerve to release it & charge the going rate.