Prolific independent filmmaker Todd Verow's semiautobiographical drama chronicles the travails of two Bangor, Maine, high-school seniors whose blossoming affair triggers a series of melodramatic consequences and revelations. Poor, gay, dreamily handsome and artistic, Joe (Brad Hallowell) has been secretly in love with his best friend, football star and compulsive shoplifter Andrew (Gregory J. Lucas), since freshman year. Joe lives in a cramped house in scruffy, low-rent Capehart Projects with his alcoholic mother (Jennifer Mallett), the most recent of her no-account boyfriends (who just beat her with the phone for ordering Chinese food from the wrong restaurant), and...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
104 mins