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Director:
Gary Wicks
Writer:
Gary Wicks (writer)
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Genre:
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Plot:
Sex is currency. It commands power and can instill fear. Tom, a young man with a troubled past finds... more | add synopsis
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Daniel Newman looks great, but the 'plot twist' is insulting more (8 total)

Cast

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Daniel Newman ... Tom

Corey Johnson ... Max Bergman
Toni Barry ... Nikke Bergman
Mark McGann ... Norris
John Benfield ... Dunston
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Adam Allfrey ... Mark (barman)

Darren Bancroft ... Det. Const. Worth
Perry Blanks ... Det. Const. Clarke
Alain Bourgoin ... French man
Julius D'Silva ... Andy
Russell Floyd ... Merchant

Rachel Izen ... Tom's stepmother
Jeremy Legat ... Jonathan Norris
Ben Macleod ... Young Tom
Phillip Manikum ... Farmer

Murray McArthur ... Det. Const. Kenny
Kate McKenzie ... Kathy Norris
John Peters ... Tom's stepfather
Andy Smart ... Heavy at the bar
Sam Smart ... Det. Const. Wilson
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Runtime:
109 min | USA:113 min (Palm Springs International Film Festival)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Australia:MA (cable rating)
Filming Locations:
London, England, UK
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Daniel Newman looks great, but the 'plot twist' is insulting, 20 May 2005
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ENDGAME

Aspect ratio: 1.85:1

Sound format: Dolby Digital

After killing the thuggish gangster (Mark McGann) who'd been acting as his pimp, a beautiful London rent boy (Daniel Newman) goes on the run with a sympathetic American couple (Toni Barry and Corey Johnson), but they're pursued by a corrupt police officer (John Benfield), one of Newman's former clients, desperate to retrieve an incriminating videotape in the boy's possession.

Gary Wicks' low budget feature debut will divide opinion like few other gay-themed movies of recent years. The pacing is a little muted, and some of the lapses in logic are too significant to ignore (Barry and Johnson's reaction to Newman's crime is simply not credible), but Wicks generates a fair degree of emotional tension, helped by attractive location photography (by David Bennett), a memorable music score (by Adrian Thomas), and a fine portrait of corrupted innocence by Newman (SPEAK LIKE A CHILD), an elfin beauty whose low-key performance anchors the entire production.

True to expectation, Wicks (whose resumé includes an executive producer credit on MOMENTS WITH JOHAN, a softcore ode to European porn star Johan Paulik, produced in 1996) makes a virtue of Newman's exquisite splendor, presenting him either shirtless or naked in every other scene, while Bennett's camera savors (almost) every inch of the young actor's glorious, sculpted body. But in a plot twist calculated to provoke outraged disbelief from some quarters, Newman's relationship with McGann and his cronies is depicted as violent and coercive, while his first heterosexual encounter (with Barry) is portrayed as a tender, liberating experience! This narrative backflip is both inappropriate and offensive, and suggests nothing more than a sop to commercial fortunes, skewing the film toward a gay audience whilst simultaneously appeasing potential straight viewers, an approach which defies all narrative logic and satisfies no one. That aside, however, the plot is reasonably engaging and the performances are superb, while the fetishization of Newman's fabulous torso provides some compensation for the movie's thematic shortcomings.

NB. The VHS version contains full-frontal nudity from Newman during a shower sequence early in the film, but the US DVD has been deliberately reframed to obscure everything below the waist.

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