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Openly gay director [C. Jay Cox] grew up in a Mormon household, and you can sense his laboring to treat the Mormon faith respectfully by drawing parallels between homosexuality and serious religious devotion, showing both as alternative lifestyles. But it's obvious the script is just using [Aaron]'s faith as an obstacle in the boy-meets-boy/boy-loses-boy/boy-gets-boy-back formula.
Luckily the supporting performances from iconic '70s actresses May Kay Place and the still lovely Jacqueline Bisset (playing a much-needed mentor to the vacuous Christian) engender just enough goodwill to help distract us from the film's one-dimensional machinations. Their classy professionalism helps make this fluff forgivable. But in the end Latter Days may be of interest only to gay cinema's true believers.See the full content of this document
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Latter Days
Latter Days, the directorial debut of Sweet Home Alabama screenwriter C. Jay Cox, is a sexy and predictable piece of modern gay...
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