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Thanks for the memories!

Please don't spend money on this.

good back-story, and good acting

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

If you catch this movie on TV or better yet go out and find it, you will not be disappointed.Every performance is brilliant. Kip Pardue is not just a pretty face, and gives a tortured, haunting performance. Bonnie Hunt shows what range she has, I wish she had more chance to do films like this, rather than Cheaper By The Dozen (though I'm sure she had her reason's). I'd fallen in love with Michael Kelly by the end, he is totally perfect throughout the entire film, and so different than in Dawn Of The Dead, what a great actor! The film is handled maturely, direction is sound, all performances stunning, as I said, the 3 story lines set over 3 years get wound together neatly, so many of these types of narrative threads feel contrived.All in all a beautiful film, that doesn't need to whack home the gay card. It's intelligent, subtle, gentle, intriguing, tender, and terribly sad.

A handsome and HIV Positive drifter arrives in a North Carolina beach community in order to photograph the Loggerhead turtles who breed there each year. Entering the town, a female motel owner and her homosexual brother spot the young man and lay odds on which one nails him in bed. When the young man gets in minor trouble with the local police for sleeping on the beach, the gay motel brother straightens things out and offers the guy a free room, a "barter" to use their words. But ice water is thrown into the deal when the guy straightforwardly admits his HIV Positive condition as well as his disinclination toward medication. This doesn't destroy but only slightly delays this gay courtship. Meanwhile, the minister and his wife are worried their new neighbors across the street might be Mexican; but the wife soon learns the "couple" doesn't include a woman but two men embracing and kissing. The rent-a-car lady unaccountably suspects the new guy in town might be her own long lost son given over to adoption.......Writer/director Tim Kirkman (as well as critics like Ebert, the New York Times, etc) ought to be ashamed of their lack of backbone about failing to so mush as hint at the gay agenda, gay themes that permeate this picture. But deception is a two-edged sword. Loggerheads was a box office and rental failure. A wipe-out. Had they described this movie honestly, it might have played the AMC Dupont Circle in my city, where gay themed movies are often shown and where people who are eager to see gay themed movies will look for them. Loggerhead turtles, by the way, are entirely hetrosexual; as is this movie fan.

If you like films that are short on gimmicky plots and focus instead on character and real-life relationships and situations, then you will likely enjoy "Loggerheads." The movie unfolds slowly, letting us get to know the characters before we begin to understand the larger issues at play. The gay characters are shown in an honest, non-melodramatic light. We have come along way from the time when gay characters only existed to be villains, pathetic losers, or to sap our sympathy for their plight. These characters are people first, with their sexual orientation portrayed as only a part of who they are. An added bonus to the film is the chance to see Michael Learned (of "The Walton's"TV show) in a great role as Bonny Hunt's mother and Chris Sarandon in a very understated performance as a minister struggling with his own demons.

I too was lucky enough to see this at the festival, and it's stayed with me. Yes, it's a little slow moving, but it's thoughtful and kind and the performances are wonderful. Tess Harper (and her eyes!) gives her best performance since Tender Mercies (a film that this is clearly related too) and Bonnie Hunt is revelatory. I've never seen her in such a demanding role, and she rises to the occasion. The photography is gorgeous, and the Patti Griffin songs just perfect. If only there was a soundtrack, I'd recommend that too! All in all, this director is one I'm going to keep my eye on, I think he's got a smart and kind storytelling sense. See it if you have the chance!