The movie is crummy on several levels, yet its desire to help make the world more loving and tolerant is so pure-hearted that criticizing it seems almost mean-spirited.
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11/21/08
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Tru Loved (2008)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:6
Rotten:11
Average Rating:4.6/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Oct 17, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Tru is uprooted by her lesbian moms from her comfortable gay-friendly home in San Francisco and moved to a conservative, suburban community in Southern California. Tru’s only... [More]
Starring: Najarra Townsend, Jake Abel, Bruce Vilanch, Jasmine Guy
Director: Stewart Wade
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Reviews for Tru Loved
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The world is not quite as nicely rainbow-hued as the film wishes it were at the end, but, if nothing else, Tru Loved makes us hope all the more that it can be one day.
10/31/08
Top CriticWade's extremely low budget film is hampered by badly recorded dialogue and a script that tries to cram too many issues and characters in.
10/30/08
This plodding plea for tolerance would barely pass muster as an after-school special.
10/24/08
Top CriticToo bad it's not better, because in many ways it's a coming-out movie with a difference.
10/24/08
Content, bolstered by some solid performances, triumphs over form: The film is engaging, timely and courageous.
10/24/08
Top CriticThere isn't really much that differentiates Tru Loved from any other low-budget indie film. It isn't unique visually and a lot of the acting is what, at best, could be called amateur.
10/23/08
The film surely means well with enormous messages of tolerance and self-esteem, but when Loved digs in with broad caricatures of homophobia and all-purpose intolerance, the movie can be a supreme chore to sit through.
10/23/08
Worthless drivel for the gay-lesbian market.
10/20/08
Top CriticAn entertaining tolerance lesson targeted at teens.
10/18/08
Top CriticTru Loved is worth a look for the supporting cast alone.
10/18/08
Top CriticEvery word of dialogue is both written and delivered with the most precious deliberateness and instructive tone.
10/17/08
Does the world need yet another peppy gay self-esteem indie like Tru Loved? Probably not, though the writer and director Stewart Wade pulls this one off with heart.
10/17/08
Top CriticI'm sure its heart is in the right place, but it fails at fundamentals we take for granted when we go to the movies.
10/16/08
Top CriticAs coming-out movies go, Tru Loved is no downer. Nobody dies, or prays the gay away. Despite the punning title, the gags carry the dialogue with surprising élan.
10/15/08
Fluffiness aside, the film's multicultural microcosm does have a giddying effect: Tru Loved offers a utopic vision of inclusiveness you wish the world would embrace.
10/15/08
Top CriticAll that's missing from this Edenic scenario is Cyndi Lauper belting "Living High and Mighty."
10/11/08
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