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DVD : Big Eden
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Big Eden starring: Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay, Louise Fletcher, George Coe directed by: Thomas Bezucha List Price: $24.95 CD-Charts Price: $19.99 You Save: $4.96 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: GROSS,ARYE EAN: 0754703761804 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Wolfe Video Manufacturer: Wolfe Video Number Of Items: 2 Publisher: Wolfe Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 30, 2002 Running Time: 117 minutes Studio: Wolfe Video Theatrical Release Date: 2000 Sales Rank: 15056 MPN: 754703761804 Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Product Description: A New York artist returns to his home town in Montana to care for his ailing grandfather, and is also given the chance to confront his feelings about being gay in a small town and his passion for his high school best friend. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: PG13 Release Date: 30-APR-2002 Media Type: DVD Amazon.com: Big Eden has won the audience awards at just about every gay and lesbian film festival there is. Henry (Arye Gross) is an artist living in New York but still carrying a torch for the guy he had a crush on in high school. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry returns to his Montana hometown, Big Eden, where he rediscovers friends he hasn't seen in years. His high school crush has since married, had children, and divorced--and seems ready to take some very different steps with his life. Big Eden is one of those implausibly tolerant towns where lesbians kiss each other in public and old coots in cowboy hats try to play matchmaker with bashful queers. Still, it's this sweet warmth in Big Eden that has made it a festival crowd-pleaser. --Bret Fetzer Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Great story and acting; slight letdown at the endSPOILERS AHEAD! This is a nice surprise of a movie--heartfelt without being smarmy, intelligent, literate, witty, quirky, and shot in a lovely wooded area. It's about a man in New York who comes back to his native Montana to care for his ailing grandfather. The man is also gay but unattached, though an old flame tries to get together with him again. A more fascinating character is called Pike (Eric Schweig), a Native American who runs the general store but is scared of what he feels for the prodigal fellow, played by Arye Gross. The townspeople turn out to be very warm and tolerant in regard to gay relationships, and they are quite supportive in many respects. The ending is just a slight letdown: ... Read More: Rating:  - Well beyond the limits of credulityI'm not sure what the intentions of the film maker were but clearly we were supposed to have our heartstrings touched by the happy ending. As others have noted, the initial premise of a NYC gay artist returning to his small town home might have provided interesting dynamics and conflicts to be explored, but instead the story revolves around the slapstick caricature of an improbable Montana town where everyone is not only gay-friendly, but intimately involved in getting the queers together, even though the queer boys themselves remain strangely uptight or full of unresolved emotional trauma about their gayness. I would have to say the most interesting part of the movie was figuring out that there was nothing substantial behind all the puzzling ... Read More: Rating:  - Big Eden is a BIG accomplishment in human storytelling.Although I saw "Big Eden" for the first time over 12 months ago, it is a film which resonates - long, long after the closing credits have rolled. I fell in love with everything about this film. It is a piece of beautiful storytelling captured through an extraordinary ensemble cast of characters who bring home the qualities so vital and true in human relationships. The themes are universal, but the fact that this film may appeal to people who appreciate the LGBT genre only makes me want to applaud even more. Bravo, for the sensitive screenplay - and Bravo for such insightful direction. If you hunger for beautiful stories, please place "Big Eden" at the top of your list. Rating:  - I had higher expectationsUnfortunately, I expected more about the movie. Scenery is great and actors' performances are good. The plot could be better worked. Rating: - The perfect gay fairy tale, wonderfully toldI'd heard about this movie for years, and finally rented it for myself. The premise is a fable, in that the main character returns to the (wonderful) Montana small-town he grew up in and none of the people there are bothered that he's gay. In fact, they rise to the occasion of matchmaking and encouraging the greater good of romance. Who could resist the idea of having the freedom to simply be yourself, and to have people see it for love instead of always fixating on it as something to be judged (or worse, stopped)? The story unfolds slowly (some may find it too slow), and it starts off a little roughly due to Henry Hart's manager being played by someone who is acting with a capital "A" every moment she's onscreen. ... Read More: |
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