Latter Days (2004)

All Critics (52) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (26) | DVD (5)

Renders its gay and religious characters so stereotypical that neither lifestyle appears attractive.

April 2, 2004 Full Review

Carla Meyer

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

It's a winning, heartfelt and conflicted piece where the conflicts often resolve themselves in surprising ways.

April 2, 2004 Full Review

Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

A coming-of-age, coming-out, romantic comedy, religious intolerance flick, and if that sounds a bit crowded, that's because it is.

April 2, 2004

Tom Long

Detroit News

Top Critic

A fairly flat, predictable tale.

April 2, 2004 | Comment (1)

Steven Rea

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

It's more melodrama than drama or love story, and Cox, who wrote Sweet Home Alabama, seems to have never met a stereotype he didn't like.

March 12, 2004 Full Review

Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

Top Critic

It's timely, not to mention refreshing, to see an affirmation of true love over hot sex, along with a reminder that the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

March 12, 2004 Full Review

Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post

Top Critic

The BIG sex scene starts poorly as the pair, alone at last due to a so-convenient snow storm, efficiently undress themselves as if preparing for a rugby match ...

December 7, 2004 Full Review

S. James Wegg

JWR

This semi-autobiographical film has its charming moments, and while a bit cliched in parts, makes for an interesting drama.

September 21, 2004

Andrew Griffin

Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)

Cox -- who experienced the Mormon view on gay life firsthand -- gets the sort of performances out of his characters that will help you overlook what is cliched about the story.

July 16, 2004 Full Review

Liz Braun

Jam! Movies

simple paint-by-the numbers gay themed film that strikes directly at Mormon dogma, but it has a certain charm due mainly to Sandvoss' Herculean efforts

June 30, 2004 Full Review

John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews

Ramsey's heartbreak, stock taking and determination to see to it the relationship gets a second chance are as affecting as anything the genre has produced in recent memory.

May 18, 2004 Full Review

Rick Kisonak

Film Threat

Overall generalities about the main characters, a tendency to reveal them through monologue rather than behavior, and a lack of curiosity about the Mormon youth's core beliefs keep Latter Days from feeling genuinely personal or particularly substantive.

May 7, 2004

Duane Dudek

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The screenplay is efficient to a fault, populated with stock characters.

May 7, 2004 Full Review

Jeffrey Bruner

Des Moines Register

Cox can be forgiven for getting a little preachy when he makes his point with such an open heart and loving spirit

April 24, 2004 Full Review

Andrea Chase

Killer Movie Reviews

...Funny, tragic, occasionally cheesy, endearing and ultimately heartwarming, dealing with very serious Christian hypocrisy while holding onto a light, life-embracing tone.

April 8, 2004 Full Review

Anita Schmaltz

Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

What would happen between a hedonistic fairy and an earnest but curious Mormon?

April 7, 2004 Full Review

Marty Mapes

Movie Habit

• 1. Christian: I'm not shallow, am I?
  2. Traci: Honey, you don't have to be deep. You just have to be...pretty.
  – Submitted by Nhia T (17 months ago)
• 1. Andrew: No, no, let me just say, I dated this guy once, actor, cute, southern, came from this really religious family. Well his parents found out he was gay, and can you say drama. They send him to one of those Christian change ministries.
  2. Traci: Wow, did he change?
  3. Andrew: Did he? Miss Thang used to be a top. [Everyone laughs]
  4. Julie: Shut up!
  5. Andrew: I'm serious. He's still gayer than a box of birds.
  6. Traci: 'Box of birds.' I love that.
  7. Andrew: How about twirlier than a party dress, but seriously, it fucked with him.
  – Submitted by Nhia T (17 months ago)
• 1. Andrew: Oh honey, you do not want them to get into your psyche. You start off listening to Amy Grant, but then before you know it, it's 3am and you got your visa card and you're giving it to that scary bitch on tv with the lavender hair.
  – Submitted by Nhia T (17 months ago)
• 1. Andrew: I dated this Mormon guy once. His family his family put him through shock therapy. We'd have sex he was a wild man, then he wanted to throw himself out the window.
  2. Traci: So, you live on the first floor.
  3. Andrew: Yes, but it's hell on my azaleas.
  – Submitted by Nhia T (17 months ago)
• 1. Lila: There was the most adorable man, Daniel, here this evening. I thought I might introduce you
  2. Christian: Really? Blue shirt, end of the bar?
  3. Lila: Actually yes.
  4. Christian: [takes our his phone] Daniel, we've met. August 3rd I bel-- [presses something on his phone] Yep. Uh, not so good. Not so good.
  5. Lila: [sighs deeply]
  – Submitted by Nhia T (17 months ago)
• 1. Lila: Drink that. [Christian sips] Mmm, toss it, that way it's medicinal. [Christian tosses the shot] Good it's vital for a man to have a couple of slugs in him, before talking about heartache.
  – Submitted by Nhia T (17 months ago)

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