Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

Lawbolisted Powerful

TaryBiggBall It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

tlutzy The good: very well acted all around and nice cinematography. The bad: one cliché after another from the over-weight, suspendered right-wing politician with the alcoholic wife to the on-again off-again "relationship" between Anthony and Henry, to the self-destructive HIV- positive roommate who is "saved" by true love. The plot moves from one predictable moment to another, and that's what really ruins this film. The part involving the senator's limo and Izzy is totally unbelievable, especially what happens after. The premise of the story -- that Henry would tell his story to a reporter after it had been plastered throughout the news media -- is also unbelievable. Other aspects are good, particularly the acting by all. Henry is appropriately arrogant, vulnerable and defiant. Karen Allen is great as the long-suffering mother.

slbbooksmusicfilm This film seems to have come in for much criticism from the reviews on here, so I'm hoping to redress the balance here. As a film, it's OK, but compared to other gay indie films from America it sits near the top of the pile. The acting is generally good, the directing is competent. The script seems a little outdated for 2004, but I remember reading somewhere that there had been delays to the making of the film and so i wouldn't be surprised if the script was actually written in the late 1990s.What makes this particularly interesting is that it is a far cry from other gay films out there. It isn't a love story, it doesn't try to woo in the punters by having stunningly handsome men who go full frontal or through strong sex scenes. That isn't what this is about. It has a message, though, and some of the scenes are a little clunky (especially the linking sections with the journalist), but that's a small price to pay for a good solid story that is well told.The two young actors play the leads without making them into stereotypes and there isn't a screaming queen in sight. Thankfully. What makes the two protagonists most appealing is that neither of them are perfect human beings. The senator's son is cocky and arrogant at times, and the boy he meets has his own faults. The supporting cast is also very good, with some nicely drawn characters.For a low budget gay effort, this is really good stuff.

preppy-3 Republician senator Jack Kray (Michael Lerner) and his wife Eunice (Karen Allen) want to get their son to introduce him at a rally. The problem is that son Henry (Matt Newton) hates his father and is hiding the fact that he's gay. He falls in love with activist Anthony (Jack Noseworthy) and things come to a head.PLOT SPOILERS!!! Pretty bad indie film. The plot is obvious and meandering and the film takes detours into various other plot lines that seem to have nothing to do with the main story (I'm still trying to figure out what Izzy is doing here). Also there's a guy on guy kiss at the end which IS necessary for the story--but it's so obvious that the guys AREN'T kissing on the lips (that guy is being kissed on the cheek) that its impact doesn't come across at all. I realize the actors probably aren't gay but that's no excuse. Kissing a guy on the lips is not going to destroy your career. It's also badly shot with lousy direction, horrendous editing and terrible lighting (everybody looks washed out). To make matters worse there's annoying "music" and sounds on the soundtrack that are more distracting than anything else. The final nail in the coffin was terrible acting. Allen and Lerner are OK but Noseworthy is bad and Newton is TERRIBLE! I don't care how good-looking he is--he can't act. He is obviously not gay and seems very uncomfortable in the role. As I said before he couldn't even kiss a guy on the lips. Aside from all that it's deadly dull. I dozed off 45 minutes into the film!On the plus side some of the guys were cute and shown in their underwear (no nudity though) and the last 30 minutes are actually pretty good--but that's too little too late. A few good speeches at the end can't save this one. Slow, boring and condescending. Avoid. I give this a 2.

mike flutka Talk about misrepresentation! This movie misses on so many marks that I honestly feel sorry for those involved. The acting, editing, cinematography, "costumes", etc. YIKES! What really got my goat was the thorough incoherence of the "story". The movie's called Poster Boy and the main character bitches and moans about how he's "not the perfect son" but his big problem is giving a single phoney speech! If the movie had been about his parents grooming him to be a politico and forcing various women on him it might've made sense. But when he's a nobody at some second-tier university an they're trying to hide him how is he a Poster Boy living a lie. He mentions on several occasions how he's invisible. Boo Hoo. And what's with the political implausibility? The devil from South Carolina who's in office and running for re-election in New York? I don't think so. Oh, and how about the fact every character smokes constantly in totally inappropriate locales. I suppose this was to make them "interesting". Bleh. Of all the bad acting Izzy has to be the worst. Is she doing an impression of Ally Sheedy in Breakfast Club or what? The two gay characters which were supposedly the selling point of this fiasco have about as much sizzle as a glass of water. All in all, another sad contribution to the canon of horrible gay films. I was bamboozled by another wretched NetFlix suggestion! The end.