Torch Song Trilogy

Torch Song Trilogy
by Paul Bogart

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Actor: Anne Bancroft, Brian Kerwin, Harvey Fierstein, Karen Young, Matthew Broderick
Director: Paul Bogart
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Hebrew (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video

DVD Reviews of Torch Song Trilogy

DVD Review: Torch Song Trilogy
Summary: 5 Stars

I had Torch Song Trilogy 1997 and gave a friend
this film. Often I had thought on one.
Now, I am happy. I like...it is very nice.
Harvey Fierstein could plays more such roles.
Maybe...

DVD Review: "One of Hollywood's First Mainstream Gay Films"
Summary: 5 Stars

I love "Torch Song Trilogy". Based on the stage play of the same name and written by Harvey Fierstein, this was one of the first films to honestly portray homosexuals in a positive and honest light. Harvery plays Arnold, a drag queen, who meets a young, beautiful man, played to perfection by Matthew Broderick, and they eventually fall in love and "adopt" a young man. The jist of the story is between Arnold and his Jewish/Catholic mother, who doesn't approve of her son's homosexual lifestyle. The scenes between Harvey and Anne Bancroft, who plays his mother, are written to perfection, as these scenes are honest in their portrayal of a mother who wants her son to be straight and have a nice home, wife, and children, yet when the mother realizes this will never be, strong, confrontational encounters between mother and son erupt. Everything about the movie from the other characters and scenes are excellent, but its the chemistry between Bancroft and Fierstein that makes the movie work.
I first saw this movie while in college, and have waited years for its release on DVD, and it's finally here. We all should watch this movie, not just for sheer enjoyment, but for good, educational reasons as we discover all families have issues, and families with gay sons are no different. The message here is that gay people cannot change. The problem isn't with the person who's gay, but with the parent who doesn't accept their child's homosexuality.
There is also a fantastic commentary from Harvey on the making of the film, and the movie is in widescreen format, and is digitally remastered from the original studio print. I wish more films like this would be made today.

DVD Review: A FAIR AND HONEST SELLER
Summary: 1 Stars

The item was received damaged. However, the seller was kind and professional to return to me a full refund. My thanks to you!!

DVD Review: One of the best movies ever!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Torch song is such an amazing movie! It has a great screenplay as well as persormances. Harvey is soo talented and this movie is him at his best. I recomend it to everyone because it's a movie that celebrates love, life, and family.

DVD Review: And the Torch carries on...
Summary: 5 Stars

The only thing that saddens me about this movie, aside from the heartbreaking climax of a brutal attack that you must simply see to savor, along with the fact that this priceless artifact never made it to the "Big Screen" was poor advertising.

If this movie had been properly advertised, I would have been PERFECT for it's time, making movies like "Making Love," "Parting Glances", and "'Broke Back Mountain"

Harvey Fierstein wrote, directed, and produced this Broadway adaption of his fine work from the stage, and brought to the big screen, SEAMLESSLY, although Harvey of course, in his adorable self-deprecating humour, denies it all, making his quiet private demeanor a stark contrast to his "Diva" like status as a performer.

It's just no use to even try to explain this movie, for I personally, PERSONALLY believe one must be a young gay male in this country to have been raised from the 50's to the early 70's, when homosexuality was a "sickness" that must be cured.

Shudder...

Don't EVEN get me started on that subject.

Later, I may go and edit this review, as I have many times, but alas, I have other things to do in my nonstop, hectic life. Dog to walk, couch pillows to rotate...you know how it is.

Description of Torch Song Trilogy

An on-screen adaptation of the Tony- award-winning play about a Jewish homosexual who, except for a different sexual preference, goes through the same struggles of love, jealousy and self-doubt that affect us all.

Harvey Fierstein had a smash hit on Broadway with the stage version of this story about a drag queen, but whatever the magic there was doesn't show up in this film adaptation. (Fierstein allegedly couldn't line up an A-list or even B-list director in 1988 to tackle the gay story line, so he agreed to work with Paul Bogart, a ubiquitous television director but an undistinguished feature filmmaker.) Fierstein's performance is fine, but likely a shadow of his live work, while Anne Bancroft is very strong in the role of his character's mother. Matthew Broderick went against the tide of fear shared by most Hollywood actors at the time about playing gay characters. The times have certainly changed since then. --Tom Keogh

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