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It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Fine piece of whimsy. Wait for the last scene! (viewed 12/16)

Actually it isn't...it's just another notch in the seemingly neverending series of bad gay film made in this country. Will anyone ever get it right? Even the openly gay directors and writers can't do it. First...and foremost...is one of the most offensive soundtracks ever compiled. I literally had to shut the sound off during the 'montages'. I am referring, of course, to the source music, not to the actual score. It made me sick to my stomach, and it's not just that it's country music, it's the worst of country music (if indeed there can be such a thing as pleasant country music, which I doubt). Second it the leading man. He's supposed be attractive and/or charming when he is neither. I put this down to bad acting as even ugly actors can be charming. Witness the performance of Eric Schweig. Not the most attractive of men, but extremely charming. Arye Gross is nothing but whiny, ugly and generally offensive, and I can find no reason why either of the 2 guys would find him at all appealing. Lastly, this is just another whiny, self-indulgent piece of crap, that isn't resolved until the final 2 minutes, so you have to put up with almost 2 most of pure garbage before the 2 characters finally get together. UGH!!! The writer/director should be ashamed of himself. This is like another one of those awful gay films made by straight men.

(SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW ALTHOUGH NOTHING I SAY COULD SPOIL SOMETHING ALREADY SO ROTTEN...) The only reason I gave this film a 3 was because the lead actor actually does some interesting things on occasion...not particularly easy when the script is totally adolescent and unimaginative.In fact, that is the first problem with this film - the script. There is almost nothing in it that is even mildly believable...just to mention a few things: a) a rising New York artist goes home to Montana because his grandfather is ill. So far so good. But he sticks around and lets his career lie fallow for over six months? Get real.b) He paints one - ONE - picture in those 6 months, and it is so bad thatno-one could ever imagine that he is an up and coming artist with two of his works already supposedly in a famous museum. c) The Indian in the story is totally wooden...(sorry, I couldn't resist - and in fact it's true). At 35 years of age he hangs his head like a dog and keeps mumbling "I gotta be going" every time the lead actor shows up; This is the only way for the script to show that he is totally in love with the guy - and this after ONE dinner together in an entire 6 months and he just hangs around moping? Even a teenager would have more smarts than this. d) If the lead and his best friend were so hot for each other in their youth, why did the artist leave in the first place? Why didn't his best friend follow? Why did the best friend get married, and then divorced? It would have helped to have one flashback at least to show them in their teens - and let us know just what kind of relationship they actually had had. But everyone pussyfoots around without anything really grounding the situation.e) Everyone , I mean EVERYONE in this film is so supportive of gays that I'm surprised they didn't all just come out at some point in the film and admit that they are all really gays themselves. This is so far-fetched that it is an insult to the intelligence of the viewer... and this is supposed to be happening in MONTANA! Hell, even in New York or San Francisco there would be more bigots around than in this little town. No wonder it is called "Eden" - a town that, by the way, doesn't really exist (anyone surprised?)When you put it all together, it makes for a very poorly written, minimally acted, unimaginatively directed, heavy-handed "comedy" which might have worked if all the main characters were fifteen. At 35 and over it just doesn't work.The "comic" moments of the film are embarrassingly silly, the heartfelt moments mostly trite and repetitive, the ending is almost completely unbelievable - not to mention obvious and clichéd.The only real question I have is, why did ANYONB like this film? I guess it must be the younger crowd - so badly brought up on lame TV series and typical Hollywood fare that they just don't know any better. Just for one moment imagine this film done by Almodovar. It would have been hot, funny, inventive, provocative, outrageous and deep - everything this film is not. RIP

Here are few lines to share this wonderful film's songs. All is said. About the story, wonderful people who take care of each other, beauty of landscape : forest and mountains, and of course love, true love which comes from heart and soul, central thing of our life. Now just listen again to the songs and remember the scenes. "I'm a thousand miles from nowhere / Time don't matter to me / 'Coz I'm a thousand miles from nowhere / And there's no place I want to be / I got heartaches in my pocket / I got echoes in my head....." and the next, my favorite one "Welcome to my world, want you come on in / Miracles I guess still happen now and then / Step into my heart leave your cares behind / Welcome to my world, built with you in mind"...if you love it, so just end it :o)