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.
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07/16/04
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Latter Days (2004)
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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:20
Rotten:24
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: A melodramatic plot and character stereotypes turn the movie into a sitcom.
Theatrical Release:Jan 30, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $553,570
Synopsis: Christian (Wes Ramsey), is a young, promiscuous gay man in Los Angeles. Always up for a party and not willing to settle down with one person, he doesn't think too much about anything. When Aaron... [More]
Starring: Wes Ramsey, Steve Sandvoss, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jacqueline Bisset
Director: C. Jay Cox
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Reviews for Latter Days
The screenplay is efficient to a fault, populated with stock characters.
05/07/04
Cox can be forgiven for getting a little preachy when he makes his point with such an open heart and loving spirit
04/24/04
Even if the film feels somewhat contrived, stick with it; you'll be rewarded by what it has to say.
03/22/04
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.
05/07/04
Despite the inherent clichés, Latter Days manages to rise above its formulaic plot, mainly because of the assured performance by Mr. Sandvoss.
02/26/04
Top CriticEveryone in this movie has been ordered off the shelf from the Stock Characters Store, and none of them wandered in from real life.
02/13/04
Top CriticDespite the frequent obviousness of the script and direction ... the story attains an undeniable, if somewhat soap opera-like, power.
01/17/04
Pilots its culture-challenging raison d'être through an increasingly insufferable collection of gaysploitation conventions.
01/27/04
Top CriticThough the film covers familiar queer-cinema ground, Latter Days' finely observed truths about the painful costs of being yourself make even the contrivance of its happy ending forgivable.
01/28/04
The whole Mormon/gay thing would be plenty for one movie without also sticking in AIDS, the betrayal of friends and actors-trying- to-get-their- big-break.
04/01/04
This sitcom setup is as bad as it sounds, and Cox never really surmounts it.
01/20/04
Top CriticAlthough a good deal of what happens is predictable, the writer-director C. Jay Cox makes much of it pleasant.
02/18/04
Top CriticThis gay romantic melodrama draws on an unconscionable number of conventions, but works in the end because of its commitment to its characters and a handful of fine performances.
01/29/04
Top CriticRamsey'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.
05/18/04
Sounds like the kind of movie that might appeal to, I dunno, maybe all seven openly gay Mormons and not many others.
01/30/04
A coming-of-age, coming-out, romantic comedy, religious intolerance flick, and if that sounds a bit crowded, that's because it is.
04/02/04
Top CriticCox, who wrote Sweet Home Alabama, again trades heavily in stereotype and coincidence for his directing debut.
01/29/04
Top CriticIt'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.
03/12/04
What would happen between a hedonistic fairy and an earnest but curious Mormon?
04/07/04
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