A solid performance by the often underrated Judith Light lends considerable weight to this melodrama's controversial subject.
Save Me (2007)
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Reviews Counted:29
Fresh:19
Rotten:10
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
Even those of us who find anti-homosexual 'deprogramming' to be hideously intolerant and naive may find ourselves oddly relieved that Mark is there.
Too much of the film involves set pieces of two characters' awkward dialogue or a single one's halting monologue-confession about life problems.
Never quite shaking off its aura of second-rate made-for-TV movie, this gay conversion melodrama has a lot of heart but little nerve and no surprise.
There are heroes, battles and triumphs -- but no villains -- in Save Me, a thoughtful, nuanced drama about guilt-stricken gay men trying to fix their 'sexual brokenness' at a Christian recovery house.
Screenwriters Robert Desiderio and Craig Chester build empathy without the usual partisan demonization or martyrdom, and the actors are intensely committed to that end.
Until about two-thirds of the way in, Save Me plays its central hypothesis surprisingly, um, straight.
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.
...a lamentably uneven effort that's admirable in its intentions, but ultimately stifled by its myriad of flaws.
With a sensitive, intelligent screenplay and extremely honest performances, this drama goes far beyond its issue-of-the-week premise.
A sensitive exploration of the motivations behind both the people conducting this dubious therapy and those seeking treatment.
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