A group of five gay friends (Brad Anderson, Desmond Dutcher, Mark Ford, Alexis Suarez,Bryan West) find their lives turned upside down as a Whirlwind enters their group in the form of an attractive but vindictive young man (David Rudd) enters their world determined to prove that relationships don’t last.
In Save Me, Mark (Chad Allen) is a young gay man heavy into drugs. His brother dumps him in a Christian conversion program run by Gayle (Judith Light) which tries to ex-gayify him. Gayle sees her dead son in Mark and takes a special interest in him. But when Mark meets Scott (Robert Gant) another participant in the program and finally comes to terms with himself.
Upcoming documentary The Sons of Tennessee Williams shows us some of the history of gay culture in New Orleans. Looks like it’s an interesting look at a point in gay history – due for release later this year.
Ghostwriter is a dark comedy wherein Jonathan (Alan Cumming) is a music teacher longing for fame and fortune. He takes in Sebastian (David Boreanaz), a struggling writer, and has visions of being his mentor / muse with a tinge of romantic interest. It seems Sebastian is leading him on and taking advantage of him. Finally, Jonathan snaps and ends up accidentally killing the younger man. Jonathan then proceeds to cash in on Sebastian’s novel only to find himself haunted by the dead writer. With appearances by Ann Heche, Karen Black, Carrie Fisher and Henry Thomas (Elliott from E.T.)
Possible spoilers (and scantily clad David) after the jump.
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For a 3 Day Weekend, a group of four friends decide to shake things up in their usual routine and they each invite a single friend to see what happens. One of the “friends” is a hustler paid for the weekend. New relationships form, some get re-affirmed and others end.
Crutch, “based on a true story”, tells the story of David (Eben Gordon) whose home life is falling apart with a philandering father and an alcoholic mother. David falls under the spell of his acting teacher Kenny (Rob Moretti – actor, writer, and director of the film). The controlling Kenny at first provides an escape from David’s family, but his situation doesn’t improve as he spirals down into drug abuse and confusion over his relationship with Kenny.
This biography takes us through the life of Jack Wrangler with a series of interviews with Jack Wrangler, various actors, filmmakers and celebrities. We go fromhis early life in Beverly Hills as the son of a filmmaker father and a former model, to his early childhood in show business through his time as an actor first in gay and then in straight porn until the present. Wrangler had a series of small parts in legitimate theatre, TV, and movies, even an appearance on “The Dating Game”. Eventually working his way to be a stripper, despite the fact that he couldn’t dance, he takes a role in a play with a nude scene and from there moves into gay porn. Eventually, he switched to straight porn for the money, despite being gay. Also explored is his romance with singer Margaret Whiting to whom he eventually married. All in all, an interesting movie; nice to see a porn actor who made it through AIDS, drugs, and other perils of the adult film industry.
Max (Clive Owen) is a gay man living in Nazi Germany. The movie begins just as the Nazi’s decide to purge the homosexuals from their government, Max has picked up Wolf (Nikolaj Waldau), a young, blond, stormtrooper, in a gay hang out. Wolf is on the list to be killed, and the Nazi’s show up at Max’s apartment in the morning. Max and his friend Rudy (Brian Webber) go on the run. Eventually captured, Max ends up in the Dachau concentration camp, but pretends to be Jewish to avoid getting a pink triangle marking him as a homosexual. He befreinds Horst (Lothaire Bluteau), another gay man, while in the camp and something of a romance develops under the harsh conditions.
Ian McKellen is Max’s Uncle Freddie who Max turns to for help while on the run. Mick Jagger is the transvestite singer in the gay nightclub.
A tragic but well done movie. Bent (1997).
