There’s an excellent cast in Heights. James Marsden is getting married but trying to keep his fiance (Elizabeth Banks) and her mother (Glenn Close) from finding out about the risque pictures he posed for years ago from a reporter (John Light) or from the exhibit of the photographer’s work that’s just come to town. Not to mention the guy (Jesse Bradford) he meets for trysts on the rooftop of their apartment building.
Asanee Suwan is Parinya Charoenphol in a true life story of a Thai kickboxer who underwent a sex change operation (and wears makeup to his boxing matches). There’s a great scene where he gets excited over his first box of eyeshadow.
Bryce Johnson & Cole Williams in Harry and Max are two brothers, both teen idols, who find themselves attracted to one another.
Shock to the System is another Donald Strachey mystery with Chad Allen as Strachey and Sebastian Spence as his lover Tim Callahan. This time Morgan Fairchild has sent her son to “ex-gay” therapy only to get him murdered.
Frankie (Nick Scotti) is a straight pizza boy / actor who moves in with a gay man to get away from home when he finds his brother having sex with Frankie’s girlfriend in Kiss Me, Guido. “GWM” = “Guy With Money”, right?
In Twilight of the Golds, Brendan Fraser plays a gay man whose sister (Jennifer Beals) is pregnant. Her researcher husband (Jon Tenney) has developed a method of testing whether or not the baby will grow up to be gay. Of course the dilemma comes: does she keep it or not.
Sean O’Bryan is Fraser’s lover whose athletic ways seem to finally win over Fraser’s father (Garry Marshall) when he helps him beat his tennis rivals. Faye Dunaway rounds out the cast as his mother.
The biggest disappointment is that Brendan didn’t get his shirt off, but otherwise not too bad a movie.
The Last Year provides a look at angst ridden gay bible college students. This was a pretty bad movie. Less than stellar acting and I hate to be heartless, but by the time someone is a senior in college, they should be able to make the decision to either keep it in their pants for another year or get a job and strike out on their own. Maybe that’s easier said than done, but. . . .
Here’s the bible school bullies (a homophobic 3 Stooges) that make life hell for our heroes:
Arye Gross portrays a gay artist who must leave New York and return to his small hometown to care for his ailing father in Big Eden. He finds that his straight high school crush (Tim DeKay) is still cute and maybe not so unattainable, and then finds there is an embarrassment of riches in the small town.
