Rock Haven
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Actor: Alabado, Coles, HoaglandBrand: TLA RELEASING
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 78 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: TLA
Movie Reviews of Rock Haven
Movie Review: (Finding the one who helps............
Summary: 4 Stars
.........you find yourself).
((Here is my approach to obtaining/viewing/reviewing Gay tales in film form. Simply, it's seeking the holy grail of that genre, or looking for the "Addictive Film"---that movie one returns to time and again). Selection/purchase is based mainly on finding new releases by favorite directors/screenwriters and your comments/reviews at various on-line sites. Sometimes I feel correctly steered by you (the "Keepers" filling my DVD shelves), other times mislead, occasionally badly (the "Throwaways"----and I do toss 'em). Rarely, I come across the "Addictive," those watchable every couple of months or so (see below starred *** area for a list......and some of the "near-Addictive" as well). For some movies, I'll share a review with you, as follows below. Thanks for sticking with me so far.))
So, Folks......first off, shall we play a little game of "second-guess the Director?" Uh.....no, no.....wait---just kidding. After all, trying to do the "Monday morning Director-ing" thing is just way too easy a way out.......especially if we're honest and admit that David Lewis did do the biggest, most important-est thing right. What is that, you may ask? Well, in the case of a gay romance, be it a comedy or otherwise, doing the right thing would be finding and bringing together two male leads who've got "C-H-E-M-I-S-T-R-Y" with one another. And in the case of Sean Hoagland and Owen Alabado, it's undeniably there---"cutely" there, I might add (cutely being a term which fittingly describes them and what we see them come across as). Do have to admit, though, that in the initial scenes I was thinking: these two guys can't act. But before long they were reeling me in. So, maybe this pair didn't have the acting "chops" to give us what a Cyrille Thouvenin and Stephan Guerin-Tillie (Just a Question of Love) gave us, or even what a Trevor Wright and Brad Rowe (Shelter) happily bestowed upon us, but what they did give us was real enough. Thanks, Boys.
Not to let Director Lewis off the hook completely, while others have already complained of over-numerous surfside and cliffside "nature" scenes, as well as the big misstep of thinking he could effectively/believably play the minister role, I won't have to echo those thoughts. BUT.......I do feel I have to add this: in a religious community in which someone like "Brady's mother" would find herself comfortably at home, no way would I expect to find such a gay-understanding "servant of the lord" as Reverend Brown. (On the other hand, I also wouldn't expect to find in that "little white-steepled church" community a character such as Katheryn Hecht's "Angie," either). If any of you out there think I'm wrong in my view of the "unusual" manner of the Reverend's coming across, please do make a Comment in that section, below.
To me, much of this film pits religious indoctrination (read: interpretation of the bible) vs. learning to be---and accepting---oneself. Brady, finally, epiphanies (please let me make that a verb) that he can be who he is.......and still have his religion. As he, in a closing scene, says to his mother: "I just want you to love me".......then forgives her after she replies she can't change either.
PS--Oh, yeah, and who's to say that there isn't a good prospect of a "reunion" between a more accepting, "reborn" Brady and a Clifford---whose mother, after all, will still be needing visits at her Rock Haven home?
***This film is becoming "Addictive." ***Other such habit formers: "Brokeback Mountain" / "Boy Culture" (Boy Culture) / "All Over The Guy" (All Over the Guy) / "Second Skin" (Second Skin (Unrated Version)) / "The Man I Love" (The Man I Love) / "Latter Days" (Latter Days (Unrated Edition))
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Summary of Rock Haven
ROCK HAVEN tells the story about Brady (newcomer Sean Hoagland) a young spiritual man who moves to the coastal seaside town of Rock Haven with his overprotective mother Marty (Laura Jane Coles) who is setting up a Christian school nearby. When Brady meets worldly seductive Clifford (Owen Alabado) there is an instant attraction to each other even though homosexuality conflicts with Brady s devoutly Christian beliefs.System Requirements:Running Time: 78 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 807839002942Drama DVD Video
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