Latter Days
Director: C. Jay Cox
Writer: C. Jay Cox
Stars: Wes Ramsey, Steve Sandvoss and Mary Kay Place

Summary: Party Boy Christian places a bet that he can get the underwear of one of the Mormon Missionary boys next door.  He soon finds out that Elder Aaron Davis is a closeted gay himself. Aaron calls Christian shallow causing Christian to join Project Angel Food and discover in himself what it truly means to love someone.  Meanwhile, Elder Davis has to face the consequences of being excommunicated from his church, and hated by his parents.

Okay, not sure if that’s the best summary for the movie but good enough.  The first time I saw Latter Days was more out of my periphery while my roommate was watching it.  It was good this time to sit back and watch it directly through.  However, the movie didn’t really catch me.  The story moved along at a great pace, neither too fast, nor too slow.  However, the acting was awful, even for Joseph Gordan-Levitt and Jacquelin Bisset.  Honestly, this was just a long episode of a Soap Opera.  I really felt like the movie I was watching was an episode of Gays Of Our Lives,  Christian just felt to me through the entire movie like a plastic Ken doll and I couldn’t find anything within myself to really care for him.  On the other hand Elder Aaron Davis, was adorable and compelling and I wanted him to be happy.  Honestly, he could have found better than Christian.  Overall, this movie was an alright film.

3 Stars

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