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.
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04/01/04
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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
Writer-director C. Jay Cox has created a tender gay love story, and then buries it under shrill diatribes, plot clichés and one-note characters.
03/26/04
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.
03/26/04
Even if the film feels somewhat contrived, stick with it; you'll be rewarded by what it has to say.
03/22/04
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03/16/04
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.
03/12/04
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.
03/12/04
Top CriticSuch a well-meaning but unambitious work that it's tempting to take it seriously even as you dismiss it.
03/12/04
Top Critic[Writer/director C. Jay] Cox deftly explores the links between coincidence and destiny, fate and miracles, love and loss.
03/06/04
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 CriticRomantic and funny, this story takes a few twists and turn in ways that you don't expect.
02/24/04
A well-intentioned but horribly trite drama about acceptance and fulfillment that plays like an after-school special with naughty words and sex thrown in.
02/20/04
Although a good deal of what happens is predictable, the writer-director C. Jay Cox makes much of it pleasant.
02/18/04
Top CriticThe 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.
02/16/04
a huge copout
02/15/04
Everyone 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 CriticSurprisingly dowdy-looking, shot more like a scruffy little naturalistic slice of alternative L.A. life than the star-crossed lover's daydream it mostly is.
02/12/04
Top CriticA winky, interminable and rather cringe-inducing manifesto... whose characters stand as crude if attractive types rather than three-dimensional people.
02/09/04
Cox's screenplay, while occasionally lapsing into the sort of cliches endemic to so many gay-themed films, generally treats its unusual subject matter with dignity and complexity, and the characters are well-drawn and sympathetic.
02/08/04
Even as it subscribes to the conventions of modern romantic comedy, it never compromises its characters' truths.
01/30/04
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