Torch Song Trilogy

Torch Song Trilogy
by Paul Bogart

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Actor: Anne Bancroft, Brian Kerwin, Harvey Fierstein, Karen Young, Matthew Broderick
Director: Paul Bogart
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Hebrew (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video

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Movie Review: Growing Up with Torch Song...
Summary: 5 Stars

In a small, damp-ish, basement theater on Sheridan Square (West Village, New York, N.Y.), I came into contact with Harvey and Torch Song for the first time. The story has transended many media changes and has come through with flying colors (all represented in the Gay Flag).

Many a Gay man has used Torch Song as their Primer for a basic life's plan. Many have curled into comfortable positions to look back upon their own experiences, their lifes and their loves. I feel sorry for the "Young Ones" of today because they will never know the excitement(s), the pleasures and sometimes the bittersweet taste of life that many of us have been lucky enough to live in real life.

Thanks for the memories, Harvey. What would we have done without you and Torch Song Trilogy.

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Summary of Torch Song Trilogy

An on-screen adaptation of the Tony- award-winning play about a Jewish homosexual who, except for a different sexual preference, goes through the same struggles of love, jealousy and self-doubt that affect us all.

Harvey Fierstein had a smash hit on Broadway with the stage version of this story about a drag queen, but whatever the magic there was doesn't show up in this film adaptation. (Fierstein allegedly couldn't line up an A-list or even B-list director in 1988 to tackle the gay story line, so he agreed to work with Paul Bogart, a ubiquitous television director but an undistinguished feature filmmaker.) Fierstein's performance is fine, but likely a shadow of his live work, while Anne Bancroft is very strong in the role of his character's mother. Matthew Broderick went against the tide of fear shared by most Hollywood actors at the time about playing gay characters. The times have certainly changed since then. --Tom Keogh

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