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Movie Reviews of Tan Lines
Movie Review: suprising yet interesting movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Even after having read a few reviews on this movie. I still wasnt quite sure whether i should take the plunge and purchase it. I did and i will say that while it wasnt the best gay themed movie i've seen. It is still pretty good in its own rights. With the lead character falling for his best friends brother Cass. Who's just come back into after being away for four years. You find out why later on in the film and it made me understand a bit better why dude bolted the way he did. His parents are a mess and i couldn't help but feel for not only Cass but his younger brothers that still has to live with them as well.
The lead guy has some issues of his own...sleeping in the same bed with your mom, might be cool when your 3 or 4. But he's 16/17 years old thats all kinds of creepy to me. But he likes Cass a lot and they have their thing going on. But he has this little side job that he describes as "gardening", i'll leave it at that and you'll find out exactly what's really going on with that job of his. Plus their is a girl interest in the movie as well whom the lead guy rebuffs time after time..but then suddenly changes his mind on getting with her. Don't quite understand that myself but again i dont want to give everything about the movie away. But for the most part the story centers around him, Cass, his younger bro, a couple friends and the professor at the school Cass went to.
Thats a whole different thing in of itself but also fits into why Cass rolled out of town in a hurry. I can't even lie after seeing this movie. Also check out the ending as well that offers a nice little surprise and twist that i didnt see coming.
I know that i made the right choice picking this one up...don't let them fool you. Tan Lines has more to offer than even i thought..be on the lookout and at the very least give it a rent to see. If its the movie that you want to put your hard earned cash on.
Either way, hope you enjoy the movie and that the review helped you make a choice one way or the other. Thanks.
Movie Review: Coming of age down under....
Summary: 4 Stars
Midget Hallows is a bored small town teenager always looking to the horizon for something/anything better than what he has now. He lives his life from one party to the next trying desperately to put as much emotional and physical distance between himself and his mother (with whom he shares a bed) as possible. He longs to leave his small town roots and find adventure. One problem, he doesn't know how or where on earth he would go if he did leave, Paris in the abstract sounds good, but there are no decent waves. So he surfs and hangs out with his friends.
Cass has been gone for fours years, leaving home after particularly nasty scandal at school and the strife that caused at home. He's been out in the world on his own making his own way, living by his own rules because he's made them up as he went along. He comes home to for a visit. And there the story really begins.
Cass and Midget know each other because Cass is Midget's best friends older brother. When the meet again after all this time there is a spark between them. Midget is just beginning to accept his own sexuality ahs Cass represent the slightly older mysterious older man. But problem arise when Cass can't live up to the image of him Midget has in his head.
Will the two of them work past this road block?
Will midget grow up and realize that life is more than adventure and good times?
Will Cass confront his family and everything surrounding his need to leave in the first place?
All these questions are asked and to a certain extent answered. The film is low budget, the cast is young but they all do very well in their roles.
Movie Review: very intelligent, novel, attractive. Hope Ed gets discovered!
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a much better movie than the other, more casual reviews suggest.
Compare this movie to American graffiti, a tale about the last night of high school, and the kids who might grow up and leave town.
Midget is a young man wanting to grow up. People seem to have trouble growing up and leaving their idyllic seaside surfer village. "Where else would you find the waves"?
Midget admires Cass, who has returned briefly after a mysterious absence, and hopes that by becoming Cass' lover, he and Cass might leave together. When Cass disappoints Midget, the latter tries alternatives.
The results are unexpected and romantically satisfying. Midget's encounters with a young woman are surreal and surprising, to say the least. Gayness seems natural and honest in this world, and nothing either to fuss over and extol, or to fear.
Of course, nobody seems to need to earn a living in this world, so people can focus on how they feel, and how they look.
I say 4 stars not 5 because there has to be some room for films like Memento and Road Warrior to merit 5. This is a perfect gem, a sapphire if not a diamond.
Movie Review: Very interesting film
Summary: 4 Stars
With a taste of Larry Clark's teen angst and desperation but without the moral emptiness of Clark's "kids", the teens in this Aussie film do care for each other and for the most part "do the right thing." The surreal scenes: a geriatric drunken game of strip poker, a chorus of Christian wall images occasionally commenting on the action, a Gothic setting where the "hero" Midget "works" (too bizarre to describe and ruin it for you), all these make it interesting. That Midget is struggling (but not too much) with working out his gay desires along with a try for a girl doesn't compete with the dreariness of every day life and the hope to leave this dismal town.
If a modest goal is to make the viewer care about the people and the plot, this movie achieved that goal and more. The photography was effective with snappy cuts from one scene to another.
Movie Review: Tan Lines
Summary: 4 Stars
very well done, the story took a left turn at the end, but was good.
excellent talent by leading actors, hope to see more of them from
other australian products when they become available