Morning View Films
David Lewis (Director)
This video is quite long, but could have been much shorter. This is not a sneer, the story is simple, boy meets boy, boy falls in love with boy. Brady (Sean Hoagland) is a Christian. The chapel he attends looks like a fundamentalist Protestant operation. The Pastor, dressed in civvies, (but sounding like a liberal Episcopalian / Anglican) is seen giving Brady vaguely gay-positive advice.
Brady’s mother is the somewhat uptight Marty (Laura Jane Coles), who becomes more easy going in the course of the action. The other major adult character is something of a hippie Earth Mother (Angie – Katheryn Hecht). Despite which, she inflicted on the other boy, the Monica ‘Clifford’. He encounters Brady walking (lonely as a cloud) along a beach. A noticeable matter in this film is that the beaches and mountain paths are underpopulated. Due presumably to a severe lack of funds. (There are many images of the ocean pounding the foot of cliffs, beaches and mountains, due to Christian Bruno’s loving cinematography. Lack of funds was probably responsible for the decidedly thin speaking script.)
Clifford is played by Owen Alabado, he can be seen online (he is a stand up comedian) describing himself as “ethnically ambiguous”. He and Brady wander about lovely southern California countryside being boyish. They eventually have sex (in typical ‘Hollywood’ fashion) by wrapping themselves so tightly in bedclothes they probably could barely breathe.
It is typical of my shallow appreciation of the movies that their taking their clothes off was the high point of the action. Seán Hoagland is lovely with his kit off — but Owen Alabado has a startlingly beautiful body — well, I think so anyway. Beautiful skin, broad shoulders (lovely butt – and, let’s not get too precious, people, – an equally lovely, long, schlong), my throat still goes dry thinking about him. (I wouldn’t say “No” to a shallow and meaningless with Master Hoagland either.) Eventually everybody lives happily ever after.
Is it worth your buying or borrowing it? That is not easy to answer. It has rather long longeurs. There are lovely images, and elegant music provided by Jack Curtis Dubowsky. But the script is practically non-existent, and some of the acting is frankly, ropey. But it is not boring, particularly if you happen to like looking at very handsome men.
Seán McGouran