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Summary: Exceptional film for the imaginative!
Review: This was a great film. The actors did their jobs very well. The characters are well defined and 3-diminsional. All I can say for the ending is this: Lee drove into town....he picked up groceries...and came back to the cottage. Without giving the plot away, put it at the end! I did. Intense movie and I loved it!
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Summary: Wonderful story, good production, awesome cast.
Review: It's great to see that some people realize that [an alternative social] life isn't bound by borders of big cities like New York City or LosAngeles.Mississippian Tag Purvis comes home (back to Meridian, Mississippi to be exact)to film this wonderful film. I won't go into the details as they are already detailed above - except I will say that Karen Black (Aunt Summer) rocks in this film and Dan Montgomery (Griffith) not only is a [good looking] but he can actually act. I just want to thank Tag and other [alternative social life style]Mississippians (be sure to read Mississippian Dr. John Howard's book 'Men Like That: A Southern Queer History'- availabe here on Amazon.com) for putting the spotlight on ... Mississippi and the ... South.
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Summary: a sequal is really necessay to do Tag Purvis justice.
Review: ...a really quiet, (this is sometimes the only way it can be in our life today) existence "BE" for those who love same sex fellow human beings. Not all love is consumated - ever. Not all love is "what we would like". I wish that Tag Purvis would consider a sequal that would be titled" COME HOME
...please come home.
Story Line (?): Lee and Griffith DO write to each other. Lee is killed in an oil-rig accident (he never made it to the West). His brother, Seth , closes the estate - which consists of: truck, $1,089.56 in cash and Griffith's letters. Seth reads the letters and thinks about them for months. (Griffith and Lee do send letters to each other about every four months. Seth "sees" their love for each other, and starts answering as if he were Lee. When Griffith ask Lee to "Come Home...please come home. Seth starts driving to Missippi to meet Griffith. He arrives in Pine Apple. Griffith has become a doctor with his practice is in Lilly May's cottage. Seth parks the truck (as the cottage is crowded) and starts walking and finally finds the river, the swiming hole, and the bridge - then the cematary. He reads and then goes to sleep on Lilly May's tombstone. Griffith finds the truck, and finally finds Seth asleep. Griffith puts a blanket unders Seths head and lays down beside him...Tag Purvis knows how to carry this story line forward....Griffith and Seth adopt Emily's twins, after she dies in child-birth, Summer has died and Griffith is living in the "big house" alone. Lives continue. (Tag Purvis, if you accept this challenge, Please let them have a good life togeather.) Thanks.
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Summary: NO NO NO
Review: this is a poor excuse for a film and should in no way be considered part of the gay film genre, much less a decent film of ANY genre. I only give it two stars because of the beautiful cinematography, camerawork and use of the Southern landscape.
southern gothic to its boring core, full of pauses and eccentricities without deepness or real meaning.
the two male leads relationship is barely homoerotic much less homosexual. one short chaste kiss does not make up for endless scenes of hamfisted acting.
Dan Montgomery is good in this and I can only think that is why he is the only person from this movie still working.
if you are still curious after this warning, I beg of you, give no money to the filmakers. RENT it.
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Summary: One more reason Karen Black's career is dead
Review: This thing should have come with a laugh track or maybe pop-up dialog balloons that could have breathed some life into this ponderously pretentious piece of poop. The Two Star rating is based strictly on the cuteness of the main male character, Griffith (Dan Montgomery). If the rating seems shallow and arbitrary, you should see the movie.
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Summary: For all those times you didn't realize.
Review: The cinematography in this is superb, the acting is superb. The whole thing is superb. Most of all, the story. Too often, we can spend time around someone, with someone, and emotions will grow and grow, without us knowing it. It is not until you get in a fight about something trivial, that your true feelings show. I loved the fact that the characters expressions of love were minimal, and that through out the film they were friends and not lovers. We've all had a friend that we were amazingly close to, would have died for. But most of the time the thought that we were (or are) in love with them doesn't occure, for whatever reason that we won't allow it to. This is one fine movie, that doesn't deal with sex, it deals with emotions that two people can feel, unspoken more than anything. And that is beyond male/male, female/female, male/female, female/male, or any other possible human combination. It shows that to be deeply in love has little to do with sex, and that is one hell of a novel idea nowadays.
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Summary: Emotional love between men without labels.
Review: I bought this dvd based on customer reviews and enjoyed it very much. After you view the dvd with friends, talk about it and get their reaction. My gut feeling was that neither of the two male characters had ever felt, or experienced, love toward another man until they met. This was a beautiful, well done motion picture. What a shame that 'Priscila, Queen of the Desert' gets mass release and this wonderful film about male bonding is only available to those who search for it. This film is about homosexualtiy and not about being gay (have you seen a gay pride parade or festival?). The beauty of the film is the male bonding. I loved it.
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Summary: love lost
Review: This film is about 2 young men who become more than friends.One is trapped in a safe,but very lonesome Southern backwater who can't take a shot at possible happiness by leaving his "new found mother"alone and fend for herself',now that his cousin and only sexual outlet has left town.The other,a virile,handsome,and dream-filled drifter, who is looking for the end of that proverbial rainbow out West",comes upon the scene after seeing a cottage for rent sign.Their chance meeting becomes a mutual bond and leads to love for each other.But there is no happy ending here,only a very difficult and unselfish choice to be made.Sadly,one of them must choose to stay behind to care for an eccentric mother.His failure to do so will haunt him always, no matter how many men enter his life.It is a brave but bittersweet choice.This film is about love of the heart and not the flesh.Regrettably,one never "owns love","love owns those who are seduced by it".In this sad , gut wrenching predicament,one must sacrifice his own potential happiness,with that of a new-found love ,his Mother.This film captures that tragedy.
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Summary: Nice idea that doesn't come together
Review: This is one of the most professionally produced Independent Films I've seen in a long time. The casting is generally good, the cinematography well done. Unfortunately, the script is very poorly written. The characters are shallowly drawn, the plotting unbelievable and inconsistant, and the Aunt's surprise announcement? Anyone who didn't figure that out in the first five minutes was probably so bored they weren't paying attention. It's all a real shame too -- because the idea is an interesting one, and in better hands could have been a compelling story.
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Summary: Hated it!
Review: I have been very disappointed in many movie but this one takes the prize. None of the charaters in this movie moved me at all. In the begining you find out that Griffith hated the small town he is from and is determine to see the world. Griffith finds himslf stuck in the town of Pineapple to care for his mother (Summer) who carries a big secret and his cousin Emily who loves him to much to let go. Although the movie is a tale of family secrets, after the 1st 10-15 of Summer trying to tell the "Big Secret" I loss intrest. Griffith prepares a small cottage on their property to rent, along comes Lee who just had to stop in this town (destiny calling) as he travel to nowhere to. I just did not believe anything about this movie. My suggestion to you before buying is to RENT.
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