Reviewing Movies

This is a gay stream of consciousness, coming of age movie. Dorian has a homophobic doctrinaire father, a housewife mother with a spiked mullet who is dominated by her husband, and an all-star athlete brother. Dorian is not athletic, likes fashion, wears fuscia shirts, and he's.... Being baled out by your younger brother may save your hide but does nothing for your ego.

Due to the restrictions placed on child actors most high school parts are played by adults. Michael McMillian was 25 when he played Dorian. Lea Coco who played his younger brother was a year older. The movie has humour and pathos. The turnaround occurs when jock Nicky visits his brother in NYC and breaks down crying in the night because he's lost his athletic scholarship. It takes the death of their father to make a man out of Dorian and supply some surprise revelations from his mother. Surprisingly good production given the genre, better than average.