Latter Days (R-Rated Edition)
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Actor: Amber Benson, Khary Payton, Rebekah Johnson, Steve Sandvoss, Wes RamseyBrand: TLA Releasing
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Model: TLAD086
Studio: Tla
Product features:
- From C. Jay Cox, the writer of the hit comedy Sweet Home Alabama, comes a heartwarming and tender gay romantic drama that combines laughs, seduction, tears, and plenty of romance. The handsome Aaron (Steve Sandvoss), a Mormon missionary, travels door-to-door in Los Angeles spreading the word of his religion. Christian (Wes Ramsey), a cute West Hollywood party boy, goes from man-to-man without much
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Movie Review: One of the Finest Gay-Themed Films Ever Made- Splendid
Summary: 5 Stars
I was surprised at how great this film was. Great, not in the shallow sense of "Great!" but as in greatness. And in every single sense: screenplay, direction, acting, all. There has been a glut of gay-themed films lately (Great!) but though many are either funny or quirky or sexy or trendy, there is often either a lack of real substance about them (eg., wispy slice-of-life movies like "Trick", "Drift", etc.) or a kind of stilted artificiality (often with drag films like "Girls Will Be Girls" or "Die, Mommie, Die", their good elements notwithstanding, but equally in many others as well). So many seem to be trying so hard to be "gay" films that something is lost in the process. This film towers over them-- in part because it doesn't try to-- in part because it is relentlessly honest, real, believable. The title, of course, refers to the Mormon Church: it is instructive to compare this film with another gay-themed recent work involving Mormons: "Angels in America". That play, and Mike Nichols' admittedly fine adaptation of it, has received more attention, and more recognition & kudos, than "Latter Days" probably ever will. This is not just a pity, it is an injustice: "Latter Days" may not have the wide reaching apocalyptic aspirations of "Angels in America" but it is a greater work in every important way. It is structurally better wrought; "Angels" is a very artificial work which tries for surrealism, symbolism, and realism and cannot strike a viable balance between them. It raises issues and establishes situations that are never integrated into the whole, or resolved, or even followed through. The emotions are forced, they are exterior; it is a cold work which never really engages our hearts, or even, finally, our minds. "Latter Days" sets itself more modest goals but achieves them magnificently. The confrontation of the two main characters, played so marvellously by Wes Ramsey and Steve Sandvoss, is finely gauged and achieves something that "Angels" never does: the characters change. They grow; in part in response to each other, in part to the changed perceptions of their worlds that their relationship creates. Other reviewers on this site have dealt with the confrontation in the film of gayness and homophobic patriarchal religion (Mormonism here); I simply want to call attention to how sensitively and honestly it was dealt with. And amomg the many felicities of its admirably well-structured screenplay, I would like to mention its two views of kinds of motherhood: Mary Kay Place's character, the "biological" mother-- yet unaccepting and ultimately unloving; and Jacqueline Bisset's character, not a mother in the physical sense, but embodying all the finest aspects of mother-love to her "children" (Christian & his coworkers). And most of all, I have to praise the play of moods in this film: humor, irony, passion, guilt, grief, joy-- all ring utterly true, utterly real: and for this the formidable talents of Messers Ramsey and Sandvoss loom large, supported by the rest of this admirable cast. Some have called the arc of events in this film predictable. I cannot agree. Repeatedly, when a situation arose which felt like it was leading into a cliche, the film surprised me by not falling for it, not taking the easy route. The sex scenes were handled beautifully, some passionate, some humorous; none ever egregious or prurient. The references to AIDS as well were done in a simple, non-preachy, non-"Dark Victory" way (if you will). And this movie most of all embraces real sentiment, not sentimentality, as is too often the case with "gay" films: it made this jaded reviewer weep, a real achievement as I'm the type who sneers at sentimentality & bathos. If the scene where Christian returns Aaron's watch, and the penultimate scene, do not get you teary, you're not only coldhearted, you haven't any heart at all. I have only just recently seen "Latter Days", so my impressions may settle out, but I think it one of the best films I have seen in quite a long time, gay or otherwise. It is the finest gay film since "Maurice", but more pertinent to today's conditions; in short, it is a gem-- a Mozart concerto to "Angels in America"'s Mahler symphony. Highly recommended in every-- any-- way.
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