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BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="575"><div> <B>Boys to Men </B>*** (Not Rated)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="575"><div> Reviewed By George O. Singleton</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="549" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 23 WIDTH="545"><div> Male Gay Awareness</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="580" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Robbie: Brett Chukerman (Crush)</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Tina: Ema Tuennerman (Crush)</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Tim: Weston Mueller (Crush)</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> John Sloan: The Mount King</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 ><NOBR><div> Paul Dawson: The Mountain King</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Joseph: Bert Kramer (The Confession)</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="269"><div> Caesar: Tom Fitzpatrick (The Confession)</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><div> The Priest: Christopher Liebe (The Confession)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="269"><div> Directors: Phillip Bartell, Duncan Tucker, Dan Castle & Carl Pfirman</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="304"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="38" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="304" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <B>30 Second Bottom Line</B>: A collection of four short male gay films focusing on relationships from ones teen years with a first sexual experience to being in one 50's after a 35 year relationship.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Story Line:</B> The titles of the four films are<I> Crush, The Mountain King, …lost, and The Confession. </I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Crush:</B></I> Twelve year old Tina has a crush on sixteen year old Robbie only to become disappointed when she learns he is gay. She then decides to become the matchmaker and tries to hook Robbie up with Tim at her house when her parents aren't at home. They play a game called <I>truth and dare</I> which leads to a hilarious scene of her showing off a piece of her underwear. If there is a point that is made regarding early awareness of ones sexuality, it's that <B>you know</B> who you are. The question appears to be do you stay in the closet or come out if you are gay?</div> <bR> <div> While <I>Crush</I> and the last short, <I>The Confession</I> deal with tender emotions, such is not the case with <I>The Mountain King</I> and <I>….lost.</I> They focus on hard sex, and are the films that create the sizzle to get people into the theater. </div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Mountain King</B></I>: Two young men meet on an abandoned beach. One thinks he's straight until he's tempted by a gay hustler to join him in the water because he might have to save him since he can't swim. For a guy who seems to be a committed heterosexual, he is easily attracted by a hustler that looks like a drunk Mike Jagger. They "get it on" and as with the best sex, soon a reprise is in the making. One guy will forever be a hustler and the other one may or may not return to his heterosexual relationship. </div> <bR> <div> <B>….lost:</B> This short is really just that….it's in the order of "wham, bam, thank you mam…in this case guy….". The guys are lost in sex for the sake of sex. They get together to knock it out and then it's "see you later". This is the type of scene that might occur shortly after two people meet in a bar for the first time, and one says to the other, "let's f---"…. and the other stands up, takes their hands and starts walking away. Names are not important, only sexual magnetism and the fulfillment of desire. </div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Confession</B></I> is the strongest film of the four with two men who've been together for 35 years coming to grips with the fact that one is dying. Joseph is bedridden and dying. He is "married" to Caesar who lovingly cares for him. With the end being near, Joseph is at odds with Caesar over bringing in a priest. For the priest to bless him, he must confess his homosexual "sins". When the priest arrives at the house, Caesar says that Joseph is not at home, but is called on the carpet when Joseph speaks out and the priest reluctantly enters the home. He asks Caesar "are you a relative?…a friend?" to which he simply replies "no" to both questions. </div> <bR> <div> <B>Tell Me More About It</B>: It was interesting to see various aspects of gay male relationships without an in your face agenda. The rawness of gay male sex that takes place during the ages of 20-35 appears to often be a reckless life style; less so with the potential transmission of sexual disease than with one night stands and no ongoing relationship.  But I would assume, and maybe this is the point, that like all "groups", be you homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual or asexual,  people are all over the map in how they live their lives. </div> <bR> <div> In some ways I wanted to know more about what made the people tick in this film. For example, Joseph was at one time in the closet and married with three kids. Unlike the teenagers in <I>The Crush,</I> what took him so long to realize what he really wanted? </div> <bR> <div> But I guess the answer to my question is to not try and find the answers to everything gay in just one film, but instead to think about what is said in recent movies such as <I><B>Chutney Popcorn, Big Eden, The Closet, Nico and Dani, and the upcoming Lost and Delirious </B></I>and<I><B> Our Lady of the Assassins. </B></I>Any one given film only addresses only so much….if there is a message, it that you should see a lot of good  films <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Wingdings" >J</FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="591" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> Not Rated ( explicit sex; nudity; hard drug use)</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> George O. Singleton © 2001</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="587"><div> <A HREF="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:Reelmoviec@aol.com"><U><U>George@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>