Big Eden
by Thomas Bezucha
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Actor: Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, George Coe, Louise Fletcher, Tim DeKayDirector: Thomas Bezucha
Brand: GROSS,ARYE
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-04-30
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Wolfe Video
Movie Reviews of Big Eden
Movie Review: For lovers and romantics of all ages
Summary: 5 Stars
Big Eden is a romantic hope and fantasy for beautiful souls that enshrouds you within a gentle cocoon from the opening moments and slowly transforms you as it unfolds.
Yes, you do realize it is make-believe, but the performances, what performances. You are drawn inside their story in spite, no make that because, of yourself and your experiences. The writing is good, though a bit one-dimensional, yet it is the actors, their chemistry and abilities which shine here. It is they, the directing and the cinematography which craft this magical place. A place where everybody is surrounded by and accepted by love. Big Eden where everybody is just who and as they are with the bullies and lechers products of pulp novelists and bad dreams.
The lush and loving caresses of the scenery by the camera shots, the wide-pans, the long-shots, groups shots, fades and the silhouettes, well, they all amount to a striking artistry and taken together they are akin to a big happy pill. An immense shot of oxygen. The final and perfect chords of an ensemble chorale.
Even after more than thirty viewings, it never becomes stale or anticipatory as it unreels before you. It becomes the best beats of life's heart and as vital. In so many ways and wishes it is the best hopes for life and love. One reviewer compared it, I thought unkindly so, to "Pretty Woman" yet after reflection, I understand what they saw in a way. I cannot speak to their experiences, but as a gay man this is akin to "KISMET" or "MY FAIR LADY" because Henry had to first recognize the language of love to be able to see it around him.
For lovers and romantics of all ages, I do recommend this film.
Big Eden
Summary of Big Eden
A New York artist returns to his home town in Montana to care for his ailing grandfather, and is also given the chance to confront his feelings about being gay in a small town and his passion for his high school best friend.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 30-APR-2002
Media Type: DVD
Big Eden has won the audience awards at just about every gay and lesbian film festival there is. Henry (Arye Gross) is an artist living in New York but still carrying a torch for the guy he had a crush on in high school. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry returns to his Montana hometown, Big Eden, where he rediscovers friends he hasn't seen in years. His high school crush has since married, had children, and divorced--and seems ready to take some very different steps with his life. Big Eden is one of those implausibly tolerant towns where lesbians kiss each other in public and old coots in cowboy hats try to play matchmaker with bashful queers. Still, it's this sweet warmth in Big Eden that has made it a festival crowd-pleaser. --Bret Fetzer
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