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| The Trip
Year: 2002
Classification: Drama
Directed:
- Miles Swain
- Roger Corman
Actors/Actresses:
- Peter Fonda
- Susan Strasberg
Fantastic movie!!!!
Moving love story! Entertaining, emotional...this film will take you back to memories of your first love, you know - the one who in your youth brought you out of your closet kicking and screaming. The Trip is a romantic comedy that manages to show love at its best and worst, deepest and shallowest, most joyous and most tragic.<BR>It's an hour and a half in the dark after which you won't lament the price of admission. In this era of TV-show adaptations and There's Something About Mary rip-off's, this renders it just shy of a gem. The triumphs and tragedies of love, not to mention a host of uncomfortable social situations, transcend the era of the film and create scenarios with which most gay men can relate.<BR>Sirena Irwin is hilarious as Alan's hippie chick lover turned power yuppie entrepreneur. MTV alumnus Julie Brown turns in a totally gnarly cameo as a receptionist with a flare for eighties style. But former Bond girl Jill St. John steals the show in her supporting role as Alan's meddlesome, liberal, and alcoholic mom. Finally something bigger than just a movie. Finally a gay romantic comedy that is not about two boys meeting-cute-and spending twenty four hours in extended, cheesy bliss. The Trip aspires to be a gayer version of The Way We Were.The Trip follows two men (wonderfully played by Larry Sullivan and Steve Braun), as they meet through recent gay history. Watching their {Tommy & Alan} tentative attempts to reconcile time and distance is alternately sweet and heart wrenching. A touching love story, The Trip is also an entertaining, Cliff's Notes version of the history of gay rights and the evolution of the gay community.
Best gay theme film ever!!!!!!
The Trip is a romantic comedy that manages to show love at its best and worst, deepest and shallowest, most joyous and most tragic.<BR>It's an hour and a half in the dark after which you won't lament the price of admission. In this era of TV-show adaptations and There's Something About Mary rip-off's, this renders it just shy of a gem. The triumphs and tragedies of love, not to mention a host of uncomfortable social situations, transcend the era of the film and create scenarios with which most gay men can relate. At the start of this winning indie drama set in '73, budding journalist Alan Oakley (Larry Sullivan) is still clinging to his <BR>het-Republican identity by penning The Straight Truth, an indictment of homosexuality--although Tommy Ballenger (Steve Braun) eventually helps him realize the folly of such denial. First-time writer-director Miles Swain demonstrates a keen sensitivity to the subtleties of developing relationships, and his pacing is lively. <BR>Sirena Irwin is hilarious as Alan's hippie chick lover turned power yuppie entrepreneur. MTV alumnus Julie Brown turns in a totally gnarly cameo as a receptionist with a flare for eighties style. But former Bond girl Jill St. John steals the show in her supporting role as Alan's meddlesome, liberal, and alcoholic mom. The Trip is the beautifully written and directed debut film by Miles Swain. Larry Sullivan and Steve Braun are very convincing as the young couple with some hysterical and some very touching scenes. This movie will make you laugh and cry and think as well, which is the very best any movie can offer. The highlight for me was Alan's very understanding and liberated mother Mary, reminiscent of Edina Monsoon without the drug usage and Patsy. Mary is played by Jill St John. She looks absolutely fantastic and it was clear she loved the role. Every scene she is in makes you warm to her character more and more. All of the characters are believable and likeable.<BR>The film features classic tunes such as Missing Person's "Destination Unknown" and Bruce Springsteen's "Cover Me." The Trip played gay and lesbian film festivals throughout<BR>the United States, to packed houses due in no small part to the universal appeal of the central love story, based on the conceit: "What if this was your first love? You messed up your relationship and here was your chance for redemption." With an overall message to: Be you, Be yourself. If you get the chance to see The Trip, do it!!!! It's well worth the journey!
A true love story...
This is the best gay love story I have seen yet! The entire story pulls you into the lives of Alan and Tommy. It's comical, intense and tearful. A great movie! Congrats to Miles Swain, the Writer and Director. Buy the movie, you'll love it, over and over again.
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