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I wanted to see another film by Alan Brown (Five Dances, Superheroes and Private Romeo).

I am not sorry I did but I didn't think much of it. The other films are much better.

Here there is a complicated plot where a 16 year old boy/man falls in love with an older woman. Her husband teaches at a girls' school. There is no husband side here. Girls have crushes on him but the wife is the one to go out of bounds with the young man. The girls are, I suppose, a counterweight. He is good she is bad? Don't know.

It is kind of forced. The whole business.

The acting is good but there is too little glue to hold it all together.

I would say a good tryout for a new director.

There is a gay subtext. Wrestling between the boy and the teacher when they go on a vacation to Disney World, all together. What? That kind of improbability wears thin after awhile. Anyway the boy gets an unmistakable hard on. He would probably fuck the husband too.

See what I mean?

Then there is Viet Nam which figures into the husband's story but gets played out by the young man. Jesus.

I think it is pretty well documented that Brown is gay. He does gay films. He tries here to get heteros to play out a gay script. It would have actually made more sense if everyone was queer.

I saw it through but barely and so it is a 2 out of Netflix5.

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