Get A Life

With only the best intentions and a micro-budget, filmmaker Toby Ross (Bowser Makes a Movie) woos us with this new tale of a gay man in search of love, in the most terribly wrong places. Shot with a steady hand and directed with finesse, Ross’ second film is leagues better than Bowser.

Jaime wanders the streets of Chicago in a daze. He works all day and haunts the adult bookstores of Boystown at night. You guys who love Chicago will recognize many of the sites in this very local-feeling film. In the dingy light of the glory-hole palace Jaime frequents, he sights a beautiful young man, Monty, who seems out-of-place among the older denizens of this business. Amidst the popper fumes, these two begin a friendship as Monty tells his tale. He’s visiting Chicago from Boston and has a fiancé back home. He’s got an obsession with "trolls" (not a word we’d ever chose BTW) – older gay men – because they appreciate him. Jaime realizes that his lust is mis-directed but he keeps on with the obsession, after all the boy is so pretty. One night the bookstore gets shut down by the cops and all the patrons arrested. Do they still do that in Chicago? In the jail cell, Jaime strikes up a friendship with his former nemesis Hal and they agree to hit the sleazy joints together on a search for dick. This search proves futile as Jaime and Hal resort to wacky gimmicks in their search for man-meat.

Will Jaime find true love? Will Monty go back to his woman? Will Hal continue to find cock at the bookstore? Will Jaime figure out who he is? You’ll have to watch Get a Life for these answers, and some laughs along the way!

Upplagd i sortimentet: 16 Februari, 2009