At once romantic, earthy and socially critical, Latter Days is a dynamic film filled with humor and pathos.
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
Sounds like the kind of movie that might appeal to, I dunno, maybe all seven openly gay Mormons and not many others.
Cox, who wrote Sweet Home Alabama, again trades heavily in stereotype and coincidence for his directing debut.
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.
This 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.
Though 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.
Pilots its culture-challenging raison d'être through an increasingly insufferable collection of gaysploitation conventions.
This sitcom setup is as bad as it sounds, and Cox never really surmounts it.
Despite the frequent obviousness of the script and direction ... the story attains an undeniable, if somewhat soap opera-like, power.
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