Defying Gravity

Set in the all-male world of college fraternities, this film's premise sounds more like the set-up for a porn flick than a sensitive coming-out drama: John "Griff" Griffith (Daniel Chilson), a deeply closeted college student, harbors a secret crush on his frat brother and best friend, tall, blond hunk Todd (Niklaus Lange). Todd, Griff and the rest of the boys of Lambda Kappa Tau share overcrowed bedrooms, shower together and accuse each other of using up all the Vaseline. But Todd has a girlfriend, and so does Griff — or so he leads his homophobic fraternity brothers to believe: Griff's "she" is really a he, a former fellow Greek named Pete (Don Handfield) who...