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Edge of Seventeen
by Strand Releasing Home
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DVD
Edge
Publisher: Strand Releasing Home
Gina Degirolamo
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC
Actors: Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Andersen Gabrych, Stephanie McVay, Lea DeLaria
Set in 1984 in Sandusky, Ohio, "Edge of Seventeen" follows the coming-out of a naive 17-year-old teenager at exactly the moment when gender-bending pop stars like Boy George and Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics were flaunting androgynous images. As the youth, played with a heartbreaking sweetness by Chris Stafford, goes through his first rites of gay passage (after being callously used by the slightly older boy who brings him out, he tries to retreat to heterosexuality with his closest female friend) he emerges as a poignant gay everyman. Lea DeLaria is wonderful as his butch lesbian boss at the amusement park restaurant where he meets his first boyfriend.
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| Freightfully Honest |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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To me, watching this movie is like watching a friend coming out on the screen.... It's unreal, but you know things like this happen. It's painful because it's so honest. It's also painful, because I see a lot of myself in Eric. I see a lot of reviewers here share the sentiment, and I'm glad I'm not the only one (it does feel lonely sometimes). If I considered The Line of Beauty an excellent movie about life any gay man could relate to (in one form or another), then Edge of Seventeen is a film that speaks to me at a more intimate level.
Now here's the review of the movie. The movie is about a guy called Eric (played by Chris Stafford) who is in a sexual confusion which eventually hurt people who cared about him and foremost, himself (despite he acted like nothing). Despite growing up in the 90's, I think many of the growing pain of a homosexual is still relevant (but given the feedback from some reviews, apparently kids from 2000's aren't going through the same sort of pain as before). Eric went through a lot of stuff I can relate to: finding identity through fashion and hairdo, feeling lost, enduring indignation with silence (what else could you do?), looking for love from both genders (but only going back to feel lost again). The movie nailed every important subjects in the process of coming to term of finding self.
To those who couldn't find the point of the movie, let me say this: not everyone can go to one of his parents and just say "Mom, I'm gay." I don't see the movie as a gay man finding love kind of movie, but a movie about a very confused man coming to be honest to himself. Watch it again from this light, and you should catch a lot of detail.
I avoided this film because I judged the movie by its cover.... This movie turned out to be much better than the cover art. Like another reviewer mentioned, one may think this is an uplifting movie, but it's not.... I am guessing Strand probably believed marketing the movie this way may boost sale, but it pleases no one. Honesty sells. This is not a pastel colored love story, but a brutally honest coming out story. Target the customer correctly, please.
To Strand's credit, they picked good movies to release under their brand. This and The Mudge Boy both offered stellar performance with strong scripts. Chris Stafford should win an award for his performance. The script is sensible and honest. I didn't expect a good movie when I first started watching, but I ended up having a movie that made me insomniac because it reached that deep pocket of my life that I thought I had long forgotten.
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| Edge of my seat!!!! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This was a very good movie, I have seen all of writer/producer Todd Stephen's films, and I seen them in the opposite order they were made. I seen Another Gay Movie, Gypsy 83, and then Edge of 17. I have to say this film left me wanting to see more and at the end if it would have just been 20 minutes longer, but even if it were i'd probably still say if it had been longer. It is one of those movies you hate to see end, also the ending itself was one of those that you have to sort of quess what you think may happen. I hope that writer todd stephens gets back to writing more movies like this. It had a great cast... love Andersen Gabrych, and Chris Stafford. Hope to see them in another one of stephens films. Overall the film is worth watching. people my age may not like the music becasue it was made to be in the 80's. However, the time may be different but the theme is still the same.
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| Simply wonderfu as well as insightful!!!! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This movie, I'm sure, was very beneficial and insightful to MANY gays coming out in 1987. This movie also proves that there are two main types of gays and it is really difficult, painful, complex and unnerving when those two types of gays come together; moreover, the harsh reality of a family's typical reaction--independent of how a gay may be categorized--in particular, the mother. Given that this movie achieves a wonderful depiction of the truths of the gay community, this movie is still very relevant today. I was not conscious of the fact that this movie was done more than 20 years ago...well, I must admit, you can't really be oblivious to Eric's Boy George-like, 80's punk look! lol :) Albeit, this is the qunitessential "coming out" movie. This movie does a very nice job of portraying the typical struggles of a gay guy in Eric's situation without over-indulging in some of the more profound aspects of the story; ergo, a drawn-out, almost unbelievable film. It also, I believe, evokes thoughts for young gays that are [hopefully] conducive to the establishment of tenets of the gay community. Some examples of these tenets would be: not to be promiscuous (as it is asinine and totally unsafe), don't judge others--as you don't want anyone judging you, never love under any pretense--thus it isn't love in the first place, accept change--you must eventually do this if you are to be comfortable and strong in being gay. Suffice it to say, I adored--no, simply TREASURE this film!! :)
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| Great 80's music |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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I saw this movie on the LOGO channel and had forgotten some of the great songs during that period. It's a great CD to have for a party.
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| Coming out with confusion. |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I think is a very good movie, the boy,Eric, is just not sure if he is gay or not, he has this cute girlfriend who is in love with him, he starts having many changes on his conduct and looks, his mom knows deep inside the truth, you see his first gay sexual experiences and his entrance to the gay scene,
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