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Summary: very touching and well made
Review: This is a quality gay-themed film. It does help to know Aussie speak in order to understand some of the things that are said. And sometimes you have to rewind/replay to understand some of the phrases. It was a touching and humorous story. I'm glad I bought it.
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Summary: The Sum of Us
Review: This is a real, sensitive and entertaining movie, I have seen it severl times and Mr. Crowe gives us a great preformance and lesson.
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Summary: The Sum of Us
Review: This is a touching, often funny, and sensitive story about relationships that is quite simply, human. Loneliness and the need for love and companionship are universal, regardless of sexual orientation or age. Promoting this film as a "gay interest" story does the work a great disservice.This story is about a widowed father (Harry) and his adult son (Jeff). They have a strong, open relationship, and a friendship beyond the parent/child bond. Things get tangled when romance enters the picture, as each one is having a hard time finding his soul-mate, and molding a new sense of family. When Jeff meets someone special, Dad tries so hard to put his date at ease, that the evening falls apart before it gets started. I literally squirmed watching it happen, knowing that feeling of wanting to "make it all better" for my kid, and conversely having been the mortified kid who desperately did not want all the "help". As open and accepting as Harry is, he still struggles with his own feelings about his mother's choice of life partner, and he begins to see things differently in retrospect. His look back at decisions made for them near the ends of their lives brought me to tears. Both Harry and Jeff are portrayed sensitively and multi-dimensionally, and they are people I would like to know.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: This is a very moving story. I hadn't heard of this movie in the US even though the movie has been around for a while. Kudos to the director for this movie. It forces you to think of how things ought to be for gay people. Accepting someone who is gay needn't be all that difficult as Jack Thompson shows us. Russel Crowe does a great job (as always) I particularly liked the flashback scenes relating to his grandmother. Definitely a movie that shouldn't be misssed!
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Summary: A Very Special Movie
Review: This is an amazing movie, it makes you laugh, it makes you cry...alot of emotion. I loved it from start to finish....
makes you want to call a loved one who you have neglected...
Crowe once again amazes....he is truly one of our most gifted
actors today.....
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Summary: Yuck
Review: This is on the level of a gay after school special. Its amazing that so many reviewers gave it a high rating. Very simplistic/trite/boring story. The acting wasn't great it was average. And the talking to the camera was ridiculous. The make out scene was gross. RC isn't believable as a gay. Boy I bet he's sorry he made this now that he's thought of as such a womanizer. Definately skip this, especially if you have a mad crush on him. All your dreams will be destroyed!
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Summary: Crowe never looked so good...
Review: This movie is so awesome. I have watched it over and over again. Russel Crowe never talks about this movie as part of his career. It's a shame because it one of his very best. It'a a must see movie, mate!
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Summary: Warm father-son story
Review: This movie is very hard to find in the United States, and I cannot understand why it has not been re-released. I would think that someone would want to cash in on Russell Crowe's post-Gladiator success by making this film available again. I mean, they re-released his atrocious "No Way Back", for crying out loud. But alas, it appears that no one has caught on to this little gem (or that a re-release is being deliberately suppressed--that's the conspiracy theorist in me coming out). In any case, I was lucky enough to rent this video a couple of years ago, before it was stolen from my local video store and never replaced. What a delightful surprise it turned out to be. "Sum of Us" is, at it's heart, the story of a boy and his dad. Jeff (Crowe) is looking for love in Sydney's gay bar scene. He desperately wants someone with whom he can share his life, have a beer with, cuddle up to... "Is that too much to ask?" His father, Harry (Jack Thompson), doesn't think so. He desperately wants his son to be happy, and to find true love. Much of the film is hilarious, due in large part to Harry's keen interest in his son's sex/love life, and his openness to discussing it in front of other people. Harry is too supportive, you see, to the point of embarrassing Jeff beyond all hope. The young man whom Jeff fancies is not accustomed to such candor. In fact, he is keeping his own homosexuality a secret from his judgemental father. In the meantime, Harry is looking for love himself, now that he's nearing retirement, which causes its own comedy and drama. In "Sum of Us", Crowe and Thompson break the fourth wall, and speak directly to the audience. This actually works for this film--it does not distract the viewer or take them out of the story. In fact, I felt the same little thrill one does when hearing a good piece of gossip. These little asides to the audience also contribute greatly to the humor. But it's not all fun and games. Jeff is a very sensitive young man, who's been deeply hurt by lovers in the past. Jeff wears his heart on his sleeve, and all of his insecurity, excitement, disappointment, longing, and adoration play across Crowe's face in a heartbreaking, uninhibited performance. Thompson plays off Crowe perfectly, and vice versa. Their relationship is completely believable--you would think that they really were father and son. Getting on each other's nerves, pushing each other's buttons, knowing each other's weaknesses. This is a relationship rarely seen on screen--a close, loving, warm relationship between a parent and child. Dysfunctional family relationships are more volatile, dynamic, and therefore more dramatic in the minds of most screenwriters--normal people are boring. Jeff and Harry are anything but boring, and they take the viewer right along with them. You'll find yourself caring deeply about both Harry and Jeff, hoping, hoping, hoping that everything will work out for each of them in the end. This is a very engaging story, due in large part to the performances of Crowe and Thompson, and the chemistry between the two. Don't miss it. I just purchased a used copy from, and it was worth it. This is a movie that I'm sure I'll watch over and over again, the kind of movie you dust off once a year and discover something new about it each time.
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Summary: A Dream Come True!
Review: This movie touched every part of me. The relationship between Jeff (Russell Crowe)and his father Harry (Jack Thompson) is every gay man's dream...to be able to live with his parents in harmony and respect, without having to lead a second life, not to mention the fact that we have The Gladiator, Mr. Russell Crowe portraying a character that many other leading men now will turn down. Two thumbs up for Russell Crowe, all my respect to him! I think I can picture myself in this movie, because my relationship with my mother is just like the one portrayed by these characters...Yes, believe it or not, my mother tries to set me up every now and then, unsuccessfully I must say, but nevertheless she tried! I Love You Mom! Five stars is not enough, I love this movie!
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Summary: A Dream Come True!
Review: This movie touched every part of me. The relationship between Jeff (Russell Crowe)and his father Harry (Jack Thompson) is every gay man's dream...to be able to live with his parents in harmony and respect, without having to lead a second life, not to mention the fact that we have The Gladiator, Mr. Russell Crowe portraying a character that many other leading men now will turn down. Two thumbs up for Russell Crowe, all my respect to him! I think I can picture myself in this movie, because my relationship with my mother is just like the one portrayed by these characters...Yes, believe it or not, my mother tries to set me up every now and then, unsuccessfully I must say, but nevertheless she tried! I Love You Mom! Five stars is not enough, I love this movie!
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