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Holding Trevor (2007) GREAT Movie !! alternative/gay lifestyle interest
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STARRING: Brent Gorski, Jay Brannan DIRECTOR: Rosser Goodman
STUDIO: Regent Releasing
RATING: R (For language, nudity, sexual situations)
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"Holding Trevor" - Everybody’s looking for something. This much is true. And Trevor Holden (Brent Gorski) is desperately looking for himself in all the wrong places… Or maybe just in all the wrong people. It’s pretty safe to say that he won’t find enlightenment in his strung-out boyfriend Darrell. And despite the well-meaning advice offered by his sexually pervasive best friend and his self-righteous roommate Andie, Trevor still seems to come up short.
Almost ready to throw in the towel, Trevor meets the ever so charming Ephram. Simply being everything that Darrell is not wins Ephram a number of points up-front. Trevor’s relationship with Ephram progresses rather quickly, and it starts to put a strain on his friendships with Jake and Andie, both of whom feel Trevor could stand to be a little more in tune with their feelings. "Holding Trevor" is a sometimes funny, sometimes scathing inspection of a group of friends and lovers that offers a prescient and biting analysis of men and women struggling to make sense of their lives and relationships, all the while reaching every which way but into their own hearts to do so.
Visit the website and watch the trailer: http://www.holdingtrevor.com/media.html
Sometimes, a step in the right direction means forging a whole new path. "Holding Trevor" is continually poignant, relentlessly self-deprecating, and just the type of cerebral dark comedy that can speak directly to the twenty-somethings of today while letting other generations in on the joke.
REVIEW
Intimate, fresh and raw, Rosser Goodman's debut film is the captivating tale of handsome young Trevor and his friends at a pivotal moment in their lives, The film begins with Trevor (Gorski, who also wrote the film) discovering that his boyfriend Darrell (Wyllie) has overdosed yet again. He drops his friend off at the hospital and gets the word from a handsome intern, Ephram (Kranski) – he'll live. Fleeing the hospital and Darrell's drama seems like the best thing for Trevor. He’s been trapped in a dead-end relationship and customer service job for too long. He escapes to home, sweet, home with roommate Andie (Searing) and semi-permanent visitor Jake (Jay Brannon, who starred as Ceth in Shortbus). Jake is a total slut and has decided that he needs to get an HIV test. Expressing solidarity with their friend, Trevor and Andie get tested as well. At a party, Trevor meets up with Ephram again – with one difference – this time he notices how damned cute he is. Their romance takes off with the Darryl situation humming in the background and the HIV tests on the horizon. To celebrate their negative status, the trio decides to hold a party that becomes the dramatic focus of the film. Darrel shows up high, Ephram breaks it off with Trevor and Andie lets loose some of her repressed anger. With its excellent soundtrack of original songs, crisp direction and great look, Holding Trevor is one of the strongest films in a year rich with queer cinematic jewels.
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