Director Jim Fall
Writer Jason Schafer
Stars Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc, Tori Spelling, Lorri Bagley, Brad Beyer
Certificate 15
Running time 87 mins
Made USA, 1999

WHEN gay cinema is sweet, it can be sickening. Doris Day and Rock Hudson would approve.

Gabe (Christian Campbell) is a shy songwriter in New York who allows himself to be picked up on the subway by Mark (John Paul Pitoc), a morose go-go boy, with a perfectly sculpted body.

What they want is a quickie, but can't find the venue. Gabe shares an apartment with a red bloodied hetero, who has girls on a revolving quota system, and Mark lives with his mom miles away.

During the tippy-toe phase, when sex is on the cards but held close to the chest, they fall in love. Two sugars, or one? Five, please.

Films like this demand to be slapped. To do so would add an element of eroticism, outside the concept of innocence as a turn on. Films like this plead to be hung off the Xmas tree.

Quote of the movie: "I knew you were different when I saw your hairy armpits." Enjoy.

The Wolf

The humour and love appeals, says Trinity