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Review Strand Home Video / The Joy of Life [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

The Joy of Life [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Strand Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Harriet Dodge
Jenni Olson

Release date: 2006-07-25
Run time: 65 min.
Creator: Tom Rielly
Price: £8.99

Review The Joy of Life [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Strand Home Video:

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Review Wolfe Video / Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Wolfe Video)

Actors & Directors

Tracy Flannigan

Release date: 2006-12-05
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Marina Tait
Price: £9.51

Review Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Wolfe Video:

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Review Paramount / Get Real [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Get Real [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) (Paramount)

Actors & Directors

Simon Shore
Charlotte Brittain
Brad Gorton
Ben Silverstone
Stacy Hart
Kate McEnery

Release date: 2000-02-22
Run time: 108 min.
Creator: Patrick Wilde
Price: £60.13

Review Get Real [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Paramount:

Ben Silverstone's appealing lead performance is the main reason to see this well-intentioned but otherwise bland tale of forbidden teenage love. Steven Carter is 16, lives in leafy, stuffy Basingstoke and is gay. Although comfortable with his sexuality, he knows neither his parents nor schoolmates are ready for the news. Until, that is, he forms an unlikely relationship with John Dixon (played by wooden Brad Gorton, who looks about 25), star athlete and all-round school stud. Wary of damaging his hunky image, John insists the romance remains secret-but Steven finds this easier said than done. There is no faulting Get Real's tolerance, honesty, trusting yourself and trusting others message. And Silverstone, despite his alarming resemblance to geeky Carry On star Richard O'Callaghan, does his best to make it watchable, His scenes with Charlotte Brittain, as his next-door-neighbour and confidante Linda, are especially fresh and convincing. The film is enjoyable and hard to dislike-but this very inoffensiveness ends up counting against it. While the gay themes are handled with an admirable lack of fuss, the package they come in is too tasteful, too carefully put together. Director Simon Shore can't be blamed for the script's predictably contrived melodrama-Patrick Wilde adapted his own play-but he might at least have brought it to the screen with a bit of pep. [+]

Instead we get TV-flat visuals, scored by creakily old-fashioned incidental music to ram home every point. As a story, it's enjoyable, even admirable, especially given the political controversies over the "promotion" of homosexuality in schools. But as a movie, it's a non-event. Released at around the same time, Swedish hit Show Me Love covered virtually identical ground, but with an intoxicating energy that this picture never comes close to matching. Like John Dixon, it has got the right idea-it just needs to loosen up a bit. -Neil Young.

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Zipper (Millivres)

Release date: 2006-07-03
RRP: ~~£14.99~~
Price: £30.01