Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
by Tommy O'Haver
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Actor: Brad Rowe, Matthew Ashford, Meredith Scott Lynn, Richard Ganoung, Sean HayesDirector: Tommy O'Haver
Brand: Lions Gate
Producer: Meredith Scott Lynn
Cinematographer: Mark Mervis
Writer: Tommy O'Haver
Editor: Jeff Betancourt
Producer: David Moseley
Producer: Irene Turner
Producer: Marcus Hu
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 2.35:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-12-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Movie Review: The Kiss
Summary: 4 Stars
"Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss"
The Kiss
Amos Lassen
"Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss" is the story of a struggling gay photographer, Billy (Sean Hayes), who is tired of being the other man. He falls in love with Gabriel, an aspiring musician and waiter who is in all probability straight. Billy tries to get Gabriel (Brad Rowe) to model for his new project which is a series of photographs based on famous Hollywood screen kisses. At the same time, Billy tries to win Gabriel's affections. There is sexual tension between the two men.
Hayes is wonderful as Billy and Paul Bartel is superb as Billy's mentor and the film is a lot of fun. The issue of gay boy/straight boy is played with dignity and Tommy O'Haver has done an amazing job as director. The characters are believable and you may very well recognize the behavior of someone you know. O'Haver blends stereotype and reality into a totally believable film and we learn that in terms of physical attraction there is very little difference between heterosexuals and homosexuals. Here is a film about relationships and how difficult they are regardless of sexual orientation. Furthermore the film is like dessert--very sweet. It only asks us to sit back and enjoy. There is a lot to look at and plenty of good looking people. "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss" manages to maintain the "will he/won't he?" after the audience gives up hoping that Billy and Gabriel will find happiness. It is enough for me to say that I won't say if the two come together but the ending is something else.
Summary of Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss
Billy is a struggling gay photographer who is tired of being the other man. When billy falls in love with gabriel a waiter and aspiring musician who is apparently straight he tries to win gabriels affections by convincing him to model for his latest project a series of remakes of famous hollywood screen kisses. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 02/05/2002 Starring: Sean P. Hayes Richard Ganoung Run time: 92 minutes Rating: R Director: Tommy OhaverFirst-time director Tommy O'Haver garnered a lot of critical acclaim for this contribution to the "new queer cinema." But he seems more clued in as to its weight than the reviewers. O'Haver rightly calls Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss a Tommy O'Haver "trifle" in the credits and he's on the money in estimating what his film is worth. For sure, the movie has much going for it; it's wholeheartedly enjoyable and packed with the usual dynamic that saturates most gay-themed films: what does one do when that object of desire is heterosexual? In this case O'Haver at least gives his protagonist, Billy, played by Sean P. Hayes, another obsession besides the Brad Pitt-lookalike, prophetically named Gabriel, who is enigmatically acted by Brad Rowe. This is because Billy is a photographer, as addicted to finding the perfect picture as the perfect man. His world is formed by old movies: From Here to Eternity and Imitation of Life are his criteria and the flirty foreplay by which to gauge whether or not a love will have stamina and staying power. Of course, Billy is bound to be disappointed by gay-friendly Gabriel, who is struggling in his own way as much as Billy. Full of the usual mix of second-string players who inhabit the gay milieu (e.g., the best female friend who has man trouble of her own, and the older, secure pal who has secretly held Billy in his sights for some time), O'Haver's film breaks the mold by keeping to a dark note. It resembles a Pedro Almodovar spectacle initially with its saturated look and primary-color palette. But three-fourths through, Billy and his gang walk into the contemporary gay equivalent of a Gidget movie. The shift is surprising and even sometimes funny. Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss has a lot going for it, but it's still just a trifle, and not a milestone in the genre. --Paula Nechak
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