Trick

1999 "A story about two guys trying to make it in the big city."
7.2| 1h29m| R| en
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Gabriel is a young, aspiring musical composer whose life seems stuck in the First Act. When his new musical number gets a critical reception, a theatre colleague, Perry, tells Gabriel that he needs to get a life before he can write about one – so he heads straight for his local gay bar.

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Also starring John Paul Pitoc

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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
Steineded How sad is this?
Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
masterdioshi This film has been on my radar for 14 years and I finally saw it. Now I understand why there is so much affection for this film. It's really a bundle of contradictions. It's a gay movie, but its flavor is ultimately very much old-fashioned rom-com. It is sexy and very out, but surprisingly chaste and tasteful. It is not focused on AIDS, coming out, or angst, but acknowledges these things without being defined by them. The comedy is effective but largely because all of the actors play their emotions totally straight-faced, drawing humor from recognizable human reactions under pressure, not because of one-liners or gags. The cast has unknowns and at least one star, but the casting doesn't feel lopsided as they are all terrific and have great group chemistry. Coco Peru would threaten to steal the movie as the evil drag queen if the rest of the cast were not so uniformly stellar. The iconic Tori Spelling and the fabulous but unknown Lori Bagley seem to be two flavors of screwball adorable. The two male leads are just knockouts. The director has coaxed two very memorable performances out of them. One thing that must be said is how fully the characters have been directed to use their bodies and inhabit them (or not inhabit them) to make us feel their unease or their confidence. Just look at hand acting in this film. When Gabriel doesn't know where to put his hands whenever they are not set at a piano keyboard or when Marc peels his shirt off with one unthinking hand as soon as he enters the club, it says volumes about their back history so economically. This is outstanding acting and outstanding direction. SPOILER AHOY Finally, the interesting thing about the film is that it is structured as a brutal series of instances of coitus interruptus. The boys keep getting sooo close to finding a place to hook up and keep getting interrupted so cruelly that an hour and a half of this should feel intensely frustrating. However, instead, it feels like the most exquisite foreplay and the most skillful teasing. By the lovely end of the film, which ends in just one chaste, but soulful kiss, you don't feel cheated, you don't feel teased, you feel COURTED, and when was the last time a movie made you feel like that? EXEUNT SPOILER So anyway, go rent it or buy it. You're welcome.
nneprevilo I sort of liked this, but I don't believe in actors/actresses trying to get by imitating other actors. Lorri Bagley as Judy, has studied Marilyn Monroe and is trying to pass this little girl voice off as her own: it's Marilyn Monroe's. Everything she did here was Monroe.I just wonder if she thinks that she can have a career doing this? I was in a drama class once (HB Studio in NY) and this girl was imitating the young Bette Davis: popping eyes, snatching cigarettes out of her mouth, the staccato speech, even the Bette Davis strut. Our acting teacher, Steven Shrimpell, stopped her and said, "you are NOT Bette Davis, stop it." That's what I'd like to say to Miss Bagley: stop doing Marilyn!I wanted these two to get together and found Tori Spelling's character, very annoying. As a matter of fact, everybody was annoying in this except the two leads.
qball_82 Where do I even begin with this crud? It reeks of "cliche" and has a flashing pink neon sign to boot. A wannabe Broadway musical writer, a go-go dancer, a little dog called Trixie, the melodramatic girlfriend... there are your warning signs right there.Throw in some of the worst acting I have ever seen, terrible, stilted dialog and drawn out scenes that play like a train wreck. Cute? Yeah, like one hundred pins in my eye! Seriously, there was nothing classy about this film, technically or otherwise. One star simply for the soft porn eye candy. One extra star because there is worse out there. But there is so much better as well.
jtphoenixga This is the coolest 'Love At First Sight' gay movie with a plot out there in the world. This movie is the best. Christian Campbell and JP Pitoc did a excellent, excellent job in this movie. The portrayal of the cute nerdy guy that doesn't work out (much) meeting the sexy hot go-go boy was superb. Tori Spelling did a good job too with the singing and dancing to Christian's character piano playing. The funniest part of the movie was the roommate Rich, played by Brad Beyer. He was the roommate from HELL. This movie was filled with some common things that normally happens when a guy tries to pick up another guy from a club or bar and these guys portrayed it well. I loved the cameo of Joey Dedio (Captain Planet) in this movie also. All-in-all the movie gets TWO thumbs up from me.