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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... 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 (Steve Sandvoss), a young Mormon man, moves into his apartment complex, Christian bets his friend fifty dollars that he can seduce him. Christian appears to be on the way to winning the bet, but Aaron is reluctant act on his attraction, as homosexuality is forbidden in the Mormon Church. And when his Mormon roommates find out what he is up to, Aaron is sent back to Idaho to face his parents about his transgression. Jacqueline Bisset and Mary Kay Place costar in this touching drama that was a hit at several international film fests. [More]
Starring: Wes Ramsey, Steve Sandvoss, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jacqueline Bisset
Starring: Wes Ramsey, Steve Sandvoss, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jacqueline Bisset, Mary Kay Place, Erik Palladino
Director: C. Jay Cox
Director: C. Jay Cox
Screenwriter: C. Jay Cox
Studio: TLA Releasing
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Reviews for Latter Days
It's all very tidy and very tedious and, no matter how much it pretends to take on the world, Days settles for preaching to the choir.
A winky, interminable and rather cringe-inducing manifesto... whose characters stand as crude if attractive types rather than three-dimensional people.
Renders its gay and religious characters so stereotypical that neither lifestyle appears attractive.
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.
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.
Pilots its culture-challenging raison d'être through an increasingly insufferable collection of gaysploitation conventions.
The curse of gay cinema is its belief that worn-out movie plots will become interesting if you put gay characters in them. This film takes the curse several steps further.
This sitcom setup is as bad as it sounds, and Cox never really surmounts it.
Even those who aren't immediately put off by the film's brazen attacks on religion -- and in particular, the LDS Church -- will likely be bored by this clumsy, incredibly contrived comedy, which has little charm.
The screenplay is efficient to a fault, populated with stock characters.
Cox, who wrote Sweet Home Alabama, again trades heavily in stereotype and coincidence for his directing debut.
What would happen between a hedonistic fairy and an earnest but curious Mormon?
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