Mark Rappaport's ROCK HUDSON'S HOME MOVIES debunks Hollywood's macho star creation, exposing the homoerotic subtext of his life on film. Rappaport's Rock stand-in, played by Eric Farr, asks, "Who can look at my movies the same way ever again?"
Armed with two VCRs, a deft hand for editing and a sly script, Rappaport opens the floodgates of revisionist, deconstructed film history. HOME MOVIES presents a parade of clips from Rock Hudson films, supplying evidence of Hudson's gayness smuggled into the mainstream. How revelatory this is
depends on how trained the viewer is; gay audiences have been watching films in this manner for decades. Attend any revival show of...
Released:
1993
Rated:
NR
Length:
63 mins