Rock Haven
by David Lewis
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Actor: Sean Hoagland; Owen Alabado; Laura Jane Coles; Katheryn Hecht;Director: David Lewis
Brand: TLA RELEASING
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 78 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: TLA
DVD Reviews of Rock Haven
DVD Review: BORINGLY BORING
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie is one of the worst I've seen recently. It's boring, the story itself aimless, and the acting is absolutely atrocious. The only good thing about the movie is the full frontal nudity. Other than that, a total waste of time.
Don't buy this.
DVD Review: Better than Latter Days
Summary: 5 Stars
I think Rock Haven is the best religion-vs-homosexuality movie so far, much better than the much more popular Latter Days. Rock Haven doesn't demonize the Christian parent or Christianity itself, as Latter Days does its Mormons, so anyone who prefers that kind of simplistic polarization would prefer Latter Days.
I prefer the seemingly more complex world of Rock Haven, in which everybody is struggling and nobody has it easy, and in the end everybody changes for the better. I can't say it's any more realistic than Latter Days is, because they're both movies, but it certainly seems a lot more balanced.
Not being a Mormon I can't say for sure, but maybe Mormonism really is that much more rigid than regular Christianity, and maybe the plight of gays within Mormonism is that much worse than it is for gay Christians. Maybe it actually is impossible to be both fully Mormon and fully gay, so that the hero of Latter Days HAS to escape his religion entirely to survive. But I know it's possible to be both fully and freely gay AND a committed, Bible-believing, born-again Christian--as Brady is in Rock Haven--because I'm doing that myself. Many Christian leaders want us to believe otherwise, but they're wrong.
Rock Haven has some weak acting in secondary roles, but the three leads--Brady, Clifford, and Brady's mother--are very good. The screenplay is very good too, simple but intelligent, without any caricature or hysteria. And the movie is well put together for a director's first feature (I LIKE the shots of the ocean. It's beautiful). Even sex is handled better in Rock Haven than in Latter Days. There's a lot more nudity in Latter Days, but it's a strangely castrated nudity, showing a lot of everything except genitals, and that ends up feeling shameful.
I recommend watching the deleted scenes on the Rock Haven DVD. The last one, called "The Hardest Scene for the Director to Part With," is especially good. I understand both why it was hard to delete and why he deleted it.
DVD Review: Poor actin
Summary: 1 Stars
Rock Haven should have had all the ingredients of a good movie. The scenery was spectacular and the storyline was the tops but it was sadly let down by the two main actors in my mind.
Sean Hoagland is a good actor and looks the part but in this movie he was clearly too old for his role and if he had acted it more maturely he would have been credible but he tended to over act it tying to make his part a boy of 18 and in doing so he came over as if he was rather simple. This spoilt it for me completely.
Owen Alabado I had never heard of and his acting in my eyes was dreadful from start to finish. Was he so obviously taken in with his own image that it reflected on his performance? He pranced and preened all the way through the movie and was not good at all. He was expressionless in most scenes which again was distracting. This is my opinion and I will not want to see any more movies by him - has he made any??
To end, it could have been a top movie but was let down by the acting in my mind. One actor who is a good actor but played it wrong and another actor whom I didn't know playing it as if he was God's gift to the acting profession.
Thumbs down I am afraid for this movie.
DVD Review: Propoganda Haven
Summary: 3 Stars
I purchased this film for the description. I was so wanting to see this charming tale of two young men falling in love and being happy in spite of personal conflict and emotions that made it difficult. Something I felt I could RELATE to. The concept of this film was wonderful. However as I watched, It became very evident that the true purpose of this film was not about love between two men, but moreso to indoctrinate the viewer against traditional religious beliefs. It was not about love at all. The young men are charming, great looking and the film started out very nicely. The scenery is breath taking and makes a terrific backdrop for the scope of what the viewer is expecting to see. The acting is good, as is the casting, yet as it progresses, the viewer is duped into watching a film of propoganda that vilianizes Christianity and simply seeks to make a political statement. I expected a story about one young man's conflicting beliefs and desires and how he finds love in the maze of confusion and personal struggle. The ending makes the film makers intent very obvious and in my opinion the films ends in the most disappointing way I could have imagined. This is not a "feel good" movie, and there is little entertainment for the viewer. Not at all the review I had hoped of being able to leave for this film. TLA screwed up big time on this one. They had the makings of something compatible with "Latter Days" in this film, had they made an effort to entertain the viewer rather than try to indoctrinate the viewer. I am so utterly disappointed with this film. Such potential, such beautiful setting, a story that could have been head and shoulders above the rest, but such failure to deliver. I want so badly to watch this film again in hopes that it will mysteriously play out differently than it did the first time. I already know how I feel about same-sex relationships, Christianity and all of that. I don't need to watch a video to "enlighten" me about the film makers views on such. I wanted to be entertained. I wanted to see raw emotion, a love story, two young men finding happiness with each other in spite of their personal differences and backgrounds. But it was not to be in this film. If you are looking for something with a happy ending, you will NOT get that with this one. I still have to give this film three stars for the acting, setting, casting and tremendous potential in spite of the rotten egg it laid. I never wanted to slap a film maker so badly. Come on people, get a clue why we buy these things!DVD Review: Rock Haven
Summary: 1 Stars
Boring Movie.........if Amazon premitted a real review of movies, I more than likely would not have purchased this DVD.
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Description of Rock Haven
Is faith stronger than sexual attraction? Brady, an 18-year-old devout Christian, is given that test when he and his mother move to a scenic Northern California coastal town where he falls in love with his new neighbor Clifford. There to spread the good word, Brady instead becomes hopelessly attracted to this handsome athlete who is the complete opposite of him: vivacious and free-spirited. There's an instant sexual spark and the two young men must navigate the divide between Brady s beliefs and their budding romance.General DVDs
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