You've obviously not seen a little flick called "Murder in Portland" Ugh. See my review on Amazon.com (it contains quotes from Vida Boheme from "To Wong Foo" and Janice from "Friends.")
Anyway, this film had a LOT of potential but fell way short. Thomas was WAY over the top. I'd rather have seen Patrick Swayze's Vida play Thomas. James was just too dang old. Should have been a mid-to-late-20s grad student working on his MFA in photography; his interaction with Billy would not have been as creepy as it was....sorry, earlier reviewer: it was creepy, especially that LEER when he was "looking in on" Billy while Billy was sleeping. Gave me the heebie-jeebies.
Billy's narrative at the beginning of the movie should have referenced how he had been a nurse's aide "in town" for a few years. That at least would have given some credence to his being hired as a home health aide for a stroke victim with not much more than a "nice to meet you; when can you start" kind of interview! If I ever get incapacitated, I hope to god my son would have the brains to at least ask for references!
The actor portraying Mark was excellent, I think. As someone said elsewhere, it's probably not the easiest thing to act using only half your facial muscles.
Guy was very sweet, and despite what some have said, NOT unrealistic. There ARE people out there that would do just what Guy did and nothing more. Sorry none of you have ever met anyone like that. It's attitudes like yours that give us all a bad name in the str8 world! How can we expect THEM to believe we're not all perpetually sex-obsessed, walking libidos if we can't believe it ourselves???
And if I see one more stereotypical hateful, bible-thumping-with-a-shot-of-booze-in-hand "Christian" in a gay movie, I'm gonna puke. You'd think that people who have suffered unfair prejudice would rise above doing the same thing to another group.
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