The Delta

An earnest, almost unwatchable first film about sexual identity in the gay-unfriendly South. Lincoln (Shayne Gray) is the soft-spoken, soft-bodied son of middle-class Memphis, secure in his social status but groping to understand his sexuality: He has a sweet, pretty girlfriend (Rachel Zan Huss), but also cruises for sex with men. Minh (Thang Chan) is a recent immigrant, the son of a Vietnamese woman and an African-American GI, poor, without prospects and an outcast no matter where he goes. Minh and Lincoln cross paths as they cruise the seedy bars, porn parlors and dark roadsides that constitute Memphis's gay scene, and their relationship -- formed across a gulf o...