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Latter Days (2004)

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Average Rating: 5.4/10
Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 26

A melodramatic plot and character stereotypes turn the movie into a sitcom.

44

Average Rating: 5.4/10
Critic Reviews: 16
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 9

A melodramatic plot and character stereotypes turn the movie into a sitcom.

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Average Rating: 3.9/5
User Ratings: 10,259

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Movie Info

Sweet Home Alabama screenwriter C. Jay Cox directs the independent romance Latter Days. Christian (Wesley A. Ramsey) is a young gay party boy who lives in Southern California. When a group of good-looking Mormon missionary guys move into his apartment complex, he's determined to pick one up. He ends up falling for sweet, innocent Mormon Aaron Davis (Steve Sandvoss), who's secretly struggling with his sexuality. Aaron slowly falls for Christian, even though he thinks he's shallow. The romance

R, 1 hr. 50 min.

Drama, Romance, Gay & Lesbian, Comedy

C. Jay Cox

Sep 7, 2004

$0.6M

TLA Releasing

Cast

All Critics (52) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (26) | DVD (5)

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

April 2, 2004 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
San Francisco Chronicle
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It's a winning, heartfelt and conflicted piece where the conflicts often resolve themselves in surprising ways.

April 2, 2004 Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | Comment
Orlando Sentinel
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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 Comment
Detroit News
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A fairly flat, predictable tale.

April 2, 2004 Comment (1)
Philadelphia Inquirer
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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 Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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Such a well-meaning but unambitious work that it's tempting to take it seriously even as you dismiss it.

March 12, 2004 Full Review Source: Boston Globe | Comment
Boston Globe
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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 Source: JWR | Comment

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

September 21, 2004 Comment

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 Source: Jam! Movies | Comment
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 Source: Old School Reviews | Comment

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 Source: Film Threat | Comment
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 Comment
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

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

May 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Des Moines Register | Comment
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 Source: Killer Movie Reviews | Comment
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 Source: Metro Times (Detroit, MI) | Comment
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)

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

April 7, 2004 Full Review Source: Movie Habit | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Latter Days

I like it overall, but a lot of cheesy stereotypes. Acting is mediocre at best. Reminder how the less open-minded think. The higher rating comes simply from a couple scenes that still makes my heart melt and beat faster.

November 18, 2008
Tomassgringo

Super Reviewer

It's just a lukewarm film, a by-the-numbers romantic drama about people from utterly different worlds that happen to fall in love. I give props for the included "twist" and depictions of "homosexual reformation" facilities that we all KNOW exist and are utilized by the Mormon church. Some very nice bits of secondary

August 27, 2009
Stinger839

Super Reviewer

    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 (42 days 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 (42 days 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 (42 days 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 (42 days 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 (42 days ago)

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