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Summary: unique but entertaining
Review: THIS FILM FEATURING TORI SPELLING IS VERY ENTERTAINING. THE STORY IS GENUINE AND EVERYONE IN THE FILM DOES A GREAT JOB IN THEIR OWN UNIQUE ROLE. THERE'S A GIRL WHO TALKS EXACTLY LIKE MARILYN MONROE, EVEN THOUGH SHE'S NOT PORTRAYING HER AND SHE'S NOT EVEN A BLONDE! THERE'S A DRAG QUEEN WHO FAVORS TORI SPELLING AND WHO IS OUT TO DESTROY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TWO GAY GUYS. I RECOMMEND THIS ONE TO OPEN MINDED PEOPLE WHO CAN LIVE AND LET LIVE. IT'S ENJOYABLE!!
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Summary: Fun without being silly
Review: If you're looking to be entertained this is the movie for you. It's full of missed oppurtunities, miscommunication and sexual frustration. One nignt two young horny men meet on a train, all they want to do is find a place, anyplace to be alone together. This film follows them as the go from place to place, and try in vain to consumate the relationship. It has some genuine funny moments, and a few surprising tender scenes. If you're looking for something to lighten up your mood, and take your mind off the long day behind you this is the move for you. Its light hearted without being silly. So pop some corn, turn down the lights, put your feet up and have a good time with a truly enjoyable movie.
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Summary: When A Trick may be more than a treat!!!
Review: It seems that there is a trend of the late 90s for semi-mainstream gay male films was to highlight young love and shy away from angst, AIDS, and sorrow (from 1996's Beautiful Thing to 1999's Get Real and Edge of Seventeen). Happily, Trick is no exception. While gay drama is important, it's also nice to have a gay counterpart to movies like Runaway Bride to remind us that true love isn't a fantasy that only heterosexuals can have.Campbell and Pitoc portray Gabriel (a talkative, high-strung musician) and Mark (a seductive, mysterious go-go boy) who cruise each other in a subway train and spend the rest of the movie trying to find a place to have sex. Frank, direct, and unapologetic,, Trick expolores the budding relationship between the men as their quest to complete their one-night stand blossoms into a deeper connection between them. We're led to take their relationship more seriously due to Campbell and Pitoc's superb, realistic acting, which contrasts with the over-the-top, often stereotypical, supporting cast A cast that includes a vindictive drag queen, Gabriel's straight roommate and his ditsy girlfriend, and Gabriel's faghag, a quite terrible actress, played surprisingly well by Tori Spelling. This contrast is so dramatic that Gabriel and Mark seem normal and ordinary, which is the point: sometimes two people want to have sex and go their separate ways, but end up getting more than they expected. Granted, this is not a new concept for cinema (for example, Four Weddings and a Funeral), but it's always nice to see gay characters getting the treatment straight characters have for decades. Obviously, this is a great "date movie" --- it's dripping with romance, and you can't help but root for Gabriel and mark to realize they want more from each other than just a fling. But the film is also laced with sharp humor and truly funny moments, with one gag or two that fall a little flat. And unlike many previous forays into this genre (such as the much-beloved Beautiful Thing), the characters have realistical flaws, which help to downplay the fairy tale aspect of the plot. Overall, I definitely recommend trick to anyone who loves a quirky tale of star-crossed lovers discovering what the audience already knew from the moment they met. You must watch this movie... its GREAT!
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Summary: The gay Brief encounter
Review: In a way, this plot recalls David Lean's classic Brief encounter. In that movie, two people meet on a railway station and fall in love. Trick revolves around two people meeting on the subway and agree to have sex. Sex wasn't discussed explicitly in Brief encounter, but Lean managed to suggest it anyway. They called it "love" in those days, but you knew the score. The lovers in Trick have their problems getting down and dirty, as there is no love nest available. In Brief encounter, they find a love nest, but are rudely interrupted. The two endings are different, but that could be ascribed to the fact that Trick is a modern gay comedy, and Brief encounter was a ladies film from an age when extra-marital sex wasn't accepted.
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Summary: Funny party movie
Review: First I have to say this: if you happen to be watching Trick with someone you really like or someone you might be dating, chances are by the end you won't even be watching the movie but each other! I won't go further than that but I think you know what mean! Basically its about two good looking guys that meet on a subway. Gabriel is the struggling writer (of musicals no less!) and Mark is the go-go boy. Both characters truly have more to them than they let on in the beginning and its a treat to watch as they both discover that about each other. Tori Spelling ads color and humor as Gabriels best friend. Its a funny and enjoyable movie that should be watched with LOTS of people; less you be alone, oh boy! On a different note you might come to odds with the fact of how two people could fall in love in one night, or get so into the drama of feelings after knowing each for a short time, but overall its okay.
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Summary: A great debut role for Pitoc; otherwise somewhat slim
Review: TRICK concerns a young, sexually inexperienced Broadway composer who gets picked up on the subway by an incredibly hardbodied stripper; the two find it impossible to find a place to have sex, and, waylaid by drunken ex-boyfriends, insensitive roommates, vengeful drag queens, and Tori Spelling, they make their way around Manhattan and find their hope of a quick sexual encounter has blossmed into something else. This film isn't really very much: really just an extremely romantic fantasy about landing the go-go muscleboy with the heart of gold. Tori Spelling is pretty funny playing basically herself (if she hadn't been born into one of the richest families in Hollywood), but Christian Campbell is fairly negligible as the lead, and the whole thing is too contrived to work very well. JP Pitoc is asked to carry off the impossible role of the muscleboy who's both a player and looking for true love at the same time: somehow, incredibly, he more than pulls it off, and is very winning and sexy at the same time. It's been a great surprise he's not been seen much more since this film was released: he's as much a find for audiences as his character is for the composer.
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Summary: It's a simple love story that tugs at the heart
Review: What I love most about this movie is that it's just a classic simple love story. There's nothing specifically gay about the characters, they just happened to be gay. You can replace the gay characters with heterosexuals and you'll get the same sweet love story. It's about time the gay community sees movies like this. Hopefully, it will take them out of their self-imposed seclusion. The bottom line is -- we are all people, we feel the same things, and love is love.
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Summary: Lacking everything.
Review: The movie always seemed to be lacking something, maybe it was the cute guy of the movie only had 10 lines. I was waiting for some sortof romantic climax in the movie but I received no such luck. The only romantic parts were when the two guys held hands and they frenched at the end--seriously. Dont get this movie if your expecting sex to be in it, there isnt any. The movie doesnt focus on the ga couple alot to begin with. There is a lot of wasted time in this movie that could have been spent on the gay couple.
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Summary: A Winner!
Review: Funny, sexy, sweet, sad...excellent performances by the dimple-cheeked would-be songwriter played by Christian Campbell, the body-to-die-for go-go boy played by J.P Pitoc, the hilarious, embittered drag queen played by Clinton Leupp, and the self-centered, untalented, motormouth wanna-be Broadway star played by Tori Spelling. I can't tell you which scene was the most touching, there were too many. I can say, however, be prepared to laugh and cry (okay - the "piano scene" and the "drag queen in the bathroom" scene are outrageously funny.) And although the characters never actually have explicit sex in the film, there is plenty of palpable sexuality and sensuality between them from start to finish. Top all this with an exciting soundtrack and I'd say this one's a winner.I recommend buying this film. You'll want to watch it again and again.
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Summary: Trick...
Review: Wow, that is all I can say about this film. It is funny, sad, and touching. It will keep you on the edge of your seat through the whole film. And by the time you get to the end you will be filled with a warm fuzzy feeling that will keep you going for hours.
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