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Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This is a great story about, on the one hand, newly found love and friendship, but on the other hand, it's sadly about betrayal of friendship, damaging secrets and, let's face it, adultery, and the break up of a long-standing and seemingly happy marriage. With all this going on, perhaps it was better for the director to focus on Nathan (Dan Payne), Chase (Charlie David) and the Davidsons, and less on what as a subplot was happening between Chase and his new buddy Jarod (Anthony Joseph). Out-takes that I saw on YouTube, if restored to the film would clarify the "mateship" between Chase & Jarod, which was not wholly chaste. The director Chip Hale has stated that in the end, he chose to make Jarod straight, so a few scenes were taken out. Amongst them, was the scene where Chase & Jarod are tossing a football around at the barbecue. Before the cut, Jarod tackles Chase to the grass where he ends up on top of Chase kissing him, and a girl who went to get a drink for herself and Chase quietly stumbles upon them. Another outdoor scene showed Jarod pawing Chase who was torn now between his feelings for Jarod and Nathan, so Chase backs away from Jarod saying he "needs time" to sort things out.Yet in my mind, Jarod was queer from the beginning. Didn't you believe so? If one listens carefully, watches what happens when Jarod's around and reads between the lines of what's left in Mr. Hale's cut, there are enough hints that Jarod fancies Chase, and when the dust settles, he drives away with him.

This really could have been a great movie in my opinion.Especially loved the acting of Thea Gill and Derek Baynham and the plot was (except for all the cheesy details) realistic and well devised.Having said that, here is what really sucks about this movie: Chase (main character, they "gay guy") behaved like the greatest A-hole on the planet during the movie!! I mean, I was really starting to hate him when he treated that girl Christy in the most condescending way ever! It's one thing not to be attracted to girls, but that doesn't give you the right to treat them like trash. First, he meets her at a party where she tries to make small-talk, but he totally ignores her and then he tells her he will grab a beer just to leave her stuck on the couch (all right, it's a party, whatever). But then, he does it again at the barbecue, only this time he tells her to grab a bear FOR HIM, then goes to play football. They never show it, but I wonder how she must have felt when she came back with the beer and saw him being gone.I mean I get what it's like to hear someone say "I wouldn't want my son to grow up being a f**(F-word)" but that doesn't mean he can do it to someone else. He should have no right to complain after treating someone like that! But it gets worse: First he betrays his best friend Tyler (who so far had shown considerable support after his coming out and behaved pretty much as perfectly as you could expect from your best friend) by having sex with his dad (Nathan). But even when he gets caught by Tyler's mother, that doesn't keep him from making out with Nathan some more, not even 20 seconds after Nathan told him that his wife had seen them in the woods. Motto:"Oh, I just might have destroyed your family, f*ck it, let's make out some more." Really!?! So then they make out some more in broad daylight and (surprise!) Tyler walks in. He storms off, being chased by Chase who yells:"It's not what it looks like!" WTF!? In my head I'm thinking: U stupid piece of sh*t! Maybe now is the time to pack your bags instead of running after your best friend who just found out that his dad is gay and you two are having an affair!!! I mean the dad is not innocent either, of course. But Chase just takes the cake by behaving totally selfish and with no regard for the lives of other people.The fact that Tyler in the end says:"It wasn't your fault" is totally beside the point. Of course it wasn't Chase's "fault" that Tyler's dad was gay, but the way in which it was revealed was well set up in order to maximize trauma to the whole family, whose lives as they knew it were destroyed.

I couldn't want to see this movie. Finally I thought, a movie with a twist and possibly realist portrayal of a closeted gay man and its impact on his family. What did I get, 90 minutes of over the top soap opera music, really really bad acting (either over done as with the son finding out his dad banged his best buddy, or no reaction at all. The father telling his wife he has been 'interested' in gay sex since college with no emotion at all on his face (Botox strikes again I suppose) and the 'lover' telling his best friend that he and his father had done the mattress mambo and showing no feelings at all. The only saving grace in this entire movie was the wife. I can not place where I have seen her before but she was both metered and nuance. Her face while the husband was unloading his burden rang true to me. My advice, skip it. If you into gays either over acting (remember Carol Burnett in her Mildred Peirce impression, but only not funny this time) or giving the classic soap opera stare as the music swell look, then you gonna love this, then you are gonna love this. If you want this story told correctly with good acting, check out the short Awakening.

"Maybe one of them lost his ball, dear." says mom to her little girl, after having witnessed her husband kissing in the woods her son's best gay friend. This comes unfortunately as a lame joke, bad wordplay. For if the film remains deliberately strained - and I mean that as a point the film makes - between what is said and what is meant, namely in the last lines of it, where the two, er, friends, bid their adieus, the straight guy says in a straight way a "straight phrase" as he says and prefers instead of 'I love you'. I don't remember the phrase, and I don't remember most of the names in the film; my attention span fails miserably when the events depicted are guilt-smitten with an hey, man understanding dressing. Only the last line portrays succinctly the fear, the love, the limits of one's own, the end of a friendship, the incapability of saying I love you face to face, instead of giving a repressed, condescending fetish. For this is what happens in the end; and I wouldn't want it otherwise, because the fact that the gay guy who waits at the bench, is well, waiting, and goes nowhere, instead of the father, who drives and drives and leaves it all behind for better tomorrows, is well deserved, and we can draw a lesson from it, as he evidently could not (except for the family portrait he leaves at their home, which comes in really bad, and I mean ethically, taste); the lesson being how character development can turn good in a sour way - or is it the other way around? Is not that, in that kind of film, we begin by sympathizing the victim in the closet, who as soon as he comes out of it, the effect unleashed, like a gush of wind, mixes the scenario towards schematic character development. And I say this because there are some good elements in this film that - well, don't live up to the moment. I mean look how the son begins like a cardboard college jerk and ends up, if not a sympathetic character, someone a bit more likable than in the first place.Enough for analysis. I hope the film was a bit better. The soundtrack is not in the least for an effort; the first, three times in a row "music" intervenes, it is exactly the same bunch of menopause chords in our ears, and the rest of it is one more instance of growling voice-and-guitar sympathy, and the lessons of life.Please, writers, directors, musicians and actors, do not indulge in guilt!