Friendship is put to the test in this story of love and loyalty in Hell's Kitchen, New York. Alison Folland plays Claude, the skateboarding teenager who slowly comes out as gay in a homophobic urban environment. Her feelings are confused by her best friend Ellen who sinks deeper into drug abuse and self destruction. When there's a murder in the neighbourhood, Claude has to choose between loyalty for Ellen or her own instincts. A coming-of-age film debut by Alex Sichel.
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HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (2000)
Certification15 Our Rating
Wow. Wow. Wow. John Cameron Mitchell directs and stars as Hedwig, transsexual punk rock goddess in this film adaptation of the highly-acclaimed rock opera. Hedwig tours America with his band, The Angry Inch, a reference to his botched sex change operation, in the wake of young rock icon, Tommy Gnosis. Tommy was a Jesus freak with a fish on his truck when Hedwig met him but soon they became a successful rock duo outgrossing monster trucks in Kansas City. But when it all becomes too much for To
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LAUREL CANYON (2002)
Certification18 Our Rating
A junior doctor and his fiancee move to his home town of LA so he can take up a medical post. Reluctantly the anally retentive young couple move in with his mother, a free living, free thinking record producer. Along with the resident band she's nurturing, both professionally and personally, the scene is set for an unravelling of family relationships and the addictive discovery of doing first, thinking later. Laurel Canyon is an intelligent and gripping drama, nicely observed and shot through wi
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PREY FOR ROCK AND ROLL (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Based on the real life misdventures of Jackie Prey, tattooist and frontwoman of the working class LA band Clamdandy, this is an all-out estrojam, heavy on the drama with great performances. Gershon leads the team as the bisexual Jackie accompanied by 'Sopranos' moll Drea De Matteo as a strung out trust fund baby and Lori Petty who queers it up as the band's 'too sweet' drummer. The story has to be true because no one would believe that so many tragedies could befall one group of people but behol
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