In When Love Comes, Mark (Dean O’Gorman, Iolus in “Young Hercules”) is conflicted about settling down with the slightly older Stephen (Simon Prast), while Katie, a fading music star, returns to her best friend Stephen and her roots in Australia only to be followed by her American boyfriend Eddie (Simon Westaway). And then there’s a lesbian rock duo who figure into things somehow. I wasn’t too clear on that part, but it was an OK movie.
In Object of My Affection, George (Paul Rudd), a gay school teacher, learns that his boyfriend (Tim Daly) is dumping him from Nina (Jennifer Anniston), a girl he happens to meet at a dinner party. She invites him to move in with her and the pair develop a friendship. But eventually, Nina wants more and after her obnoxious boyfriend gets her pregnant she continues to fall in love with Georrge. Going from friendship to attempted seduction to outright jealousy of George’s new boyfriend before realizing she can’t look to him for romance.
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Based on a true story, Savage Grace is a tale of what happens to a social climbing woman who has threesomes with her gay son. Ick. Julianne Moore plays the mom and Stephen Dillane is the dad, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Mom can’t get enough of high society and dad keeps dwelling on the glories of his grandfather who built the family fortune. Eddie Redmayne takes on the role of young Tony who’s a little too tied to mummy’s apron strings. Unax Ugalde does a turn as Tony’s cute drug dealing boy toy. Apparently quite the scandal ensued.
Chad Allen once again brings us detective Donald Strachey in On the Other Hand, Death. This entry into the series finds Don coming to the defense of two elderly lesbians (Margot Kidder and Gabrielle Rose) who are being subjected to vandalism and pressure to sell their house. But it turns out that more is going on than gay bashing as Don uncovers more secrets and pulls together the disconnected pieces of the puzzle while fighting off the advances of his lover’s ex (Damon Runyan).
An excellent biography of Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) following the openly gay politician from his arrival in San Francisco to his assassination by Dan White (Josh Brolin). Harvey’s arrival in San Francisco with his then lover Scott (James Franco) and his struggle to reach elected office show a bleaker time in the gay rights movement provide a reminder of how things were only a couple of decades ago when the thought of even one state with gay marriage didn’t seem possible. Milk’s struggle for gay civil rights went a long way to propelling us to where we are today, despite his short time in office before he and then Mayor George Moscone were shot by Dan White (who pioneered the “Twinkie Defense” in his trial). Milk.
Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story is a 1997 look at the life of gold metal winning Olympic diver Greg Louganis. With a look at his early life as an adopted child looking for the approval of his father to his drive to perfect his driving and the problems of his love life and infection with HIV. Patrick David portrays Louganis as a younger man and Mario Lopez takes over as the timeline progresses.
Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild reunites the characters from Another Gay Movie, this time for spring break in Florida, where they battle it out with their inexplicable rivals, but without 3 of the 4 original cast. Only Jonah Blechman revises his role of Nico with Jarod (Jimmy Clabots), Griff (Aaron Michael Davies) and Andy (Jake Mosser) being portrayed by new actors. The implication is that the missing actors’ agents felt two gay movies in a row would lead people to make assumptions, but maybe their agents just read the script first. Euriamis Losada is Louis, Andy’s virginal love interest.
There are a couple of funny scenes, but as sometimes happens with sequels, this was a fairly forgettable outing. Some eye candy, but otherwise . . . .
