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Best movie ever!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Excellent film about the struggles many youth face in 21st century America. Although some of the film is not truly necessary, especially shortly after the beginning, the depth of the movie overall makes is 2 thumbs way up. Not a fluff film in the least, the director tackles real issues in a very compelling way. It is one of those movies that needed to be made instead of made to be needed. The acting is immaculate, and it is clear that much effort was made on the part of both the director and actors draw the audience in. Most movies come and go, mostly go, but this is one I will recommend to virtually anyone out there who is willing to watch it. Aside from editing out a few scenes, it was virtually spotless. In this case I'll call a 9.5 a 10.

I was rooting for this movie, even as my every hope was smashed the whole way through: all the elements of a truly engaging, affecting, sophisticated picture are here, but they are botched beyond belief. Maybe somebody could give director David Scott a bigger budget and a staff and they could try it again from scratch.The basic premise of the movie--requited but unacknowledged love--will ring true with a lot of queer folk: "You make love to me all the time. Why can't we just be boyfriends?" (That may have been one of the lines, actually, but the sound on this movie is so very dreadful I suspect I caught less than a third of the dialog.) There's no reason this film shouldn't resonate with anyone who's been in the position to rue their beloved's denial of acceptable, respectable, publicly avowed togetherness. And I suppose it does, with those more forgiving of its many distracting flaws. Am I unrealistic in expecting a certain basic level of competence from a movie?The young actors are not without talent; or, at any rate, they are much better at what they do than the director, who frames extremely long static shots (such as that of Troy and Merrick discussing their issues in the living room) with no visual relief, no character movement, and no particular tension-building purpose. Not to mention the astonishing percentage of frames in the movie that feature Troy's obliquely downcast, unchanging stare-into-the-abyss! (Perhaps we should be thankful that Scott did not devote equal time to capturing the abyss staring back into Troy.) One is reminded of The Brown Bunny, which was built of 8 sentences, a blow job, and 80 minutes of Vincent Gallo alone and looking like he's just eaten a fistful of bear scat.Our writer-director allows his protagonist the dignity of doing the only responsible thing by the end of the movie: growing up and getting over Merrick. He even permits a cloudy, ambiguous split between them, in which the lingering affection is just as obvious as the need for separation. All this could turn a film golden, win awards, and jerk tears like nobody's business--if only there were the tiniest shard of coherent film technique backing it up.

Well It wasn't THAT bad of a movie the storyline was really good but many of the technical aspects were not the greatest. Poor lighting Poor sound. some bad camera angles. You would Think it was a project of a high school student. If it wasn't so technically bad it was would be really good. i mean some Parts I thought were good Hence where the spoiler warning comes in.Merrick's Quote "Your not homosexual Your Merrick Sexual" Troysniffs Merricks shirt (i think its his shirt) the kiss at the end And a side note Matt Austin Makes a much Better Power Ranger.

I try to give independent gay cinema a break but this was hardly bearable. Not only was the plot unintelligible, the movie was so slow that I watched much of it in fast forward. I played the parts with dialog at normal speed but I kind of regret it. Not only was the sound muffled, but the dialog was awkward and unconvincing, especially the lead girl. If I knew anyone that bounced that quickly from manic rage to passivity and back, I'd definitely organize an intervention cause she needs to lay off the meth.Suppose the director was my dearest friend and I had just sat through this together, I don't think I could come up with anything positive to say about this mess. The best I can say is the boys were cute... well, when there was adequate lighting to see them or when they were in focus.