tough, tight, and thought-provoking, a small-scale indie success for everyone involved.
Save Me (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 19
Rotten:9
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis:
Years in the making, Robert Cary's exquisite third feature, Save Me, is a film about redemption. Mark (Chad Allen), a lost, young, gay man, leads a wild life of drugs and meaningless sex, searching...
Years in the making, Robert Cary's exquisite third feature, Save Me, is a film about redemption. Mark (Chad Allen), a lost, young, gay man, leads a wild life of drugs and meaningless sex, searching desperately to fill the emptiness in his soul. When Mark finally hits bottom, his brother checks him into Genesis House, a 12-step, Christian, "ex-gay" ministry specializing in healing sexual brokenness.
Genesis House is the life mission of Gayle (Judith Light) and her husband, Ted (Stephen Lang). Haunted by her past, Gayle is determined to save young homosexual men from their personal demons. Scott (Robert Gant), one of the program's "fifth phasers," is Mark's mentor. The growing friendship between these two men threatens Gayle. Increasingly suspect of Scott's motives, Gayle fights back, refusing to let her carefully controlled world fall apart. Torn by the specter of damnation and the pull of their hearts, Mark and Scott are forced to confront their truth.
The nuanced screenplay by Craig Chester, Alan Hines, and Robert Desiderio conveys the insidious harm of Christianity gone awry, while gracefully avoiding the pitfalls of cliché. Superbly shot amidst the beauty of the New Mexico desert and boasting exceptionally layered performances from its gifted stars, Save Me is pointedly topical and powerfully moving.
--© Sundance Film Festival
Starring: Chad Allen, Robert Gant
Starring: Chad Allen, Robert Gant
Director: Robert Cary
Director: Robert Cary
Reviews for Save Me
As a movie, it doesn't amount to much more than an after school-special with sex and profanity.
Allen brings such conviction to the part that it's almost possible to look past the gaps in Mark's development. In the end, you may not buy each step he takes, but you respect Allen's attempt to make the effort seem genuine.
A be-true-to-yourself message prevails, one that can be safely stretched to it's-OK-to-be-gay. But the film never definitely takes the stand that homosexuals can't be 'converted.'
The first release from the gay-oriented Mythgarden production company, Save Me still bodes well for its evenhanded approach.
While Save Me does seem like a TV movie, it is refreshingly honest and heartfelt.
Here after a long dry spell is an example of queer filmmaking at its best. Hallelujah my gay brethren!
This earnest, well-acted melodrama has compassion for all of its characters, who include gay men and the Christians dedicated to healing them of their 'brokenness'.
Save Me doesn't poke fun at anyone's beliefs. It takes a more nuanced humanistic approach.
A film that stands the best chance of winning the hearts and minds of those who now embrace the gay 'recovery' movement.
The film refuses to follow any one strand of political logic, and as such exists on an insufficient amount of thematic oxygen to support its loaded dramatic context.
This is a modest, thoughtful, independent production of exceptional insight and quietly devastating power.
Light, best known for her TV-sitcom work, turns a cliché -- the zealot with a secret pain of her own -- into an achingly sad woman; it's one of the year's best performances.
An emotionally powerful drama with the potential to build bridges of understanding between gays and the Religious Right.
Where other films would have demonized Christians outright, Save Me presents a world where gays and Christians can go their separate ways while wishing each other well.
Sounds like a great idea for a gay porno, but the soapy Save Me actually takes itself seriously.
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January 23, 2009:
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January 23, 2009:
As disagreements continue to heat up between red states and blue states, and liberals and evangelicals in this country, Save Me makes its debut as a story that may be in search of unlikely middle ground. ![]()
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September 03, 2008:
As disagreements continue to heat up between red states and blue states, and liberals and evangelicals in this country, Save Me makes its debut as a story that may be in search of unlikely middle ground. ![]()
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September 03, 2008:
As disagreements continue to heat up between red states and blue states, and liberals and evangelicals in this country, Save Me makes its debut as a story that may be in search of unlikely middle ground. ![]()
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