Latter Days (Unrated Edition)
by C. Jay Cox
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Actor: Amber Benson, Khary Payton, Rebekah Johnson, Steve Sandvoss, Wes RamseyDirector: C. Jay Cox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 107 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: TLA Releasing
DVD Reviews of Latter Days (Unrated Edition)
DVD Review: Latter Days: bravo!
Summary: 4 Stars
I mean, sure it's a touch campy, but only is a way that worked. Watched it a couple of times, and I have to say I like this film more and more. All the elements of a great flick - humour, drama, and even a couple of quotable moments.DVD Review: Latter Days
Summary: 5 Stars
I give this film 5 stars because it is extremely touching. To be honest no movie has touched me the way this has and I have seen many (highly praised classic movies, indie films etc.).
IMHO, Steve Sandvoss is superb as the closeted gay Mormon missionary Elder Davis (Aaron Davis), who is attracted to the twenty-something gay party boy Christian (although he dislikes Christian's shallow lifestyle). Especially in the dramatic scenes (for example: the confrontation between Aaron and his mother, who condemns homosexuality)which take place after Aaron's return home (Aaron's fellow missionaries see Aaron and Christian kissing and Aaron is sent home in shame)he does a terrific job and you cannot help but like and sympathize with the character he portrays.
Wes Ramsey, who plays the party boy who tries to seduce one of the Mormon missionaries who move in next door and whose life changes dramatically after falling for the inexperienced and sincere Aaron, turns in a very good performance.
The plot of the film makes use of many so-called coincidences. (You may or may not like that). I think all these 'coincidences' are part of the film's charm. The film is basically a mixture between comedy and drama and also contains some melodramatic elements. It is also a romantic love story. And it is also a film which deals with the problems people who are born gay into a religious community which considers homosexuality/the practice of homosexuality a sin face. You do not have to be homosexual or particularly interested in religion (I am neither) to find that interesting. The film is certainly not an in-depth exploration of all the problems someone who is gay and a member of a religious community which condemns homosexuality is confronted with but I think the film should not be bashed for that. "Latter Days" is not a documentary.
If you like dramatic love stories, if you believe that there are people who are destined for each other and if you are not homophobic, I can highly recommend this movie to you.
Last but not least, I would like to mention Erik Palladino, who portrays a man dying from AIDS. His performance is really impressive.
DVD Review: It almost came close to home
Summary: 4 Stars
Very good movie. I've been approached by missionnairies of the LDS. I refused to join because of the tithe and the fact that I would have to give up who I am, and I love coffee too much (would have to give that up too). As for the movie, the actors are very well directed and the storyline is awesome, loved the ending.DVD Review: Truly a bridge over troubled waters!
Summary: 5 Stars
This film bowled me clean out. I haven't been moved so deeply by any film that I can remember. And I've watched it more times than any other - in spite of which it always remains fresh and vital. The actors, all of them, won my heart straight off - especially the two main ones. The theme of a committed believer and an out and out hedonist meeting, locking into, and ultimately healing one another, is a difficult one to tackle - but the success of the director has been phenomenal. The two boys 'convert' each other in a way: the hedonist sees, is mesmerised by, and in the end acquires the depth he sees in the other boy but so pointedly lacks himself; and the Mormon boy is propelled by love through his fears and then through the imprisoning mean-spiritedness and blindness of his parents' faith, to share in the vitality of his friend's love of life - without at all compromising his own integrity or his awareness of and commitment to the spiritual dimension. This clearly has been carved straight from the director's own life-experience.
The interface between faith and homosexuality has seldom been explored in film, and never, in my experience, as gently, penetratingly and sensitively as in this film. If you are a believer of any sort, and also homosexual, you have almost certainly felt the isolation and coldness of rejection from both sides. This film will be God's special blessing to you - as much, I sincerely hope, as it has been, and is for me.
DVD Review: Latter Days
Summary: 4 Stars
Very good movie. Gets a message accross that love is love no matter who it is with. Being gay is not a bad thing. If you don't accept it, that is fine. But just leave it at that and leave them alone. We are all human beings and we all deserve respect. Get over it or get out. Again, very good movie.
Description of Latter Days (Unrated Edition)
Huge festival and theatrical hit, Latter Days is the story of 19-year-old Elder Aaron Davis, a sexually confused Mormon missionary who moves into an apartment complex in West Hollywood with a fellow group of missionaries. There he meets a neighbor, Christian, who, on a bet, tries to seduce him. When Christian exposes Davis' secret desire, Davis rejects Christian for being shallow and empty. As each boy's reality is shattered, the two are drawn into a passionate romance that risks destroying their lives. Audiences, young and old and straight and gay, have been moved to tears by this beautiful story of the transformational power of love and family.Christian (Wes Ramsey of the washboard abs) is a waiter, party boy, and first-class man magnet. Elder Aaron Davis (Steve Sandvoss of the goofy grin) is a straight-laced Mormon missionary. When he and three elders, including the uptight Ryder (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mysterious Skin), move into Christian's Hollywood apartment complex, it's clear something's got to give. Christian tries to make his new neighbors feel welcome, but they're put off by his flamboyance--the short-shorts, the rainbow flag in his yard, etc. When Christian's trash-talking pals at Lila's restaurant, including the cynical Traci (Amber Benson, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), bet that he can't seduce one of these clean-cut young men, he takes them up on it and sets his sights on cute, soft-spoken Aaron. As a pretense, he asks to learn more about his Church, but where they really connect is over their love of old movies, everything from Psycho to Tommy. When Aaron accuses him of being shallow, however, Christian starts to wonder if the bet wasn't such a good idea--plus he's starting to fall for the guy. Turns out the closeted Aaron feels the same way about him, but when his roommates find out, he's shipped back to Pocatello where he faces excommunication. Written and directed by C. Jay Cox (Sweet Home Alabama), a former Mormon missionary, Latter Days features Mary Kay Place as Aaron's disapproving mother and Jacqueline Bisset as the acerbic, yet supportive Lila. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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