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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9781572523258 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 1572523255 Label: Fox Lorber Manufacturer: Fox Lorber Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Fox Lorber Release Date: August 24, 1999 Running Time: 96 minutes Sales Rank: 40504 Studio: Fox Lorber Theatrical Release Date: January 31, 1997
Description: A gritty and poignant look at the world of male prostitutes through the course of a single day on the streets - hustling for money and love while hoping for a little decency. A veteran male prostitute, John, befriends the new guy who looks to John for advice and friendship.
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Rating: - There Is Humor But It Isn't A Comedy
The VHS packaging calls this a "dark comedy-drama", and there is a level of street humor totally missing from two more famous films with similar subject matter, MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO and TWIST. That said, there is almost nothing funny about it. This is one of those films that seems to be made so that it can NEVER be shown on commercial television. There is lots of swearing, sexual situations and some seriously disturbing violence permeates the film from beginning to end.
The Christian symbolism is laid on with a trowel, but the acting is uniformly good. Arquette and Haas are tremendously watchable ... Read More
Rating: - A docu-drama style coming of age queer film with memorable performances from Arquette and Haas.
I was rather surprised that I didn't see this film when it first came out more than ten years ago, because it's on the level of compelling drama as My Own Private Idahol(River Phoenix). Having recently worked with Lukas Haas in The Stillborn(a horror film kind of like The Sixth Sense), I was quite eager to check out what he was like in terms of acting when he was 19 years old. I didn't quite expect to see David Arquette play a hustler, but it's convincing enough because his character is straight and he's "gay for pay". I must say that overall, this film is more touching than My Own Private Own Idahol, but ... Read More
Rating: - guilty pleasure
I really like this movie though it has not so hot reviews. I found it really sad, and it showed a side of the population unfamiliar to most of us. It didn't hurt to have David Arquette dancing in his boxers either!
Rating: - Maybe too realistic for most people
This is a good movie with a solid story and realistic acting. Anyone who couldn't feel for these characters must have either not been paying attention to the movie or they are just heartless. Even though I don't enjoy seeing the sad lives of young hustlers the fact is they are out there. As with Donner many are there because they were kicked out of their homes by their parents who rejected them for being gay and others are there because of being repeatedly sexually abused. I didn't get the feeling that this was just another low-budget movie. The movie appropriately relayed the coldness and "bad lighting" of ... Read More
Rating: - I am not a prostitute.
This was a sorry, pathetic excuse of a film. Nothing, from the opening title sequence, to the characters, to even the paper-thin story, was worth redeeming or recognizable as value. Several reviews have argued the point that perhaps director Scott Silver (of The Mod Squad fame) should have done a bit of research on the life of a male prostitute instead of just allowing David Arquette the freedom of just jumping around and screaming to show the hardships of "reality". I couldn't agree more. I felt cheated and confused as I watched this elongated 24-hour period erupt chaotically into several convoluted themes ... Read More
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