Guys & Balls

Guys & Balls
by Sherry Horman

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Actor: Anna Koesling, Dietmar B?r, Eileen Eilender, Leon Breitenborn, Saskia Vester
Director: Sherry Horman
Brand: BRUCKNER/ROTT/POTTHOFF
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-05
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Regent

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Movie Review: Fun Movie
Summary: 5 Stars

This is the first gay movie that I can actually say I have fun watching. This is a German movie with subtitles. It is made on the style of "The Mighty Ducks", a fun family movie, unfortunately not for the kiddies because of the subject matter. It was surprising to me to see a production company name in the credits, a subsidiary of a major studio associated with family type movies. I suppose I recognized the style.

The story still the same old theme of coming out and being alienated by peers, friends, and family members. But the line up of all these oddball characters make us forget for a moment the pain, makes us laugh, and root for the winners.

Ecki is a young man who works in a bakery with his father and mother in a small town in Germany. He is a goalie for the local soccer team. One night after a loss by the goalie, they still went ahead and celebrate. One of the other players, Udo, resented the fact that Ecki has lost the match for them. Ecki gets drunk looses his cool and kisses one of the other member of his team. He then gets chastised by his entire team and friends, town people, and his own father. In a moment of anger, he challenges Udo that a gay team will beat them, and sets a date for game.

Because his family are not too happy with him, he moves to a big city, where his sister (a nurse) lives and works. After coming out to Susane, he tells about his challenge in his hometown, and starts recruiting players for his gay team. He meets this other good looking young male nurse, Vater, at Susane's job, and he comes out to him and wants to join the team. A relationship flourish from this.

Ecki finds all sort of gay men, from hardcore bikers, two former professional African soccer players, an Arab working in a fast food restaurant, a washed out professional soccer player who owns the soccer field where they train as ball players. Relationships, friendships, bonding, all grow to make these people good enough team players. There are ups and downs but at the end they come out stronger. The final date arrives and the gay team wins the match with both guys facing each other, Udo and Ecki. Ecki regains his face in the town by blocking Udo's kick and the gay winning the match.

At the end, Vater and Ecki hold hands. Ecki introduces Vater to his father. Ecki's father accepts Ecki as gay. And the movie ends with a happy ending.

This is great movie, again with a style of a family movie. Here are the underdogs fighting a better and stronger team. With all the screwballs, their coach, the former washed out professional player, puts character and discipline into men, re-examining his own life, accepting at the end he is not a looser. All of the men are ordinary looking guys making the movie a bit more realistic. Even though the two main characters, Vater and Ecki are cute, they are not extraordinarily handsome like most other coming out movies actors. "Summer Storm" has a similar theme where a rowing gay team (which exist in real life in Berlin) beats a straight rowing team. I enjoyed this movie.

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Media Type: DVD
Artist: BRUCKNER/ROTT/POTTHOFF
Title: GUYS & BALLS
Street Release Date: 09/05/2006
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Genre: ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE

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