Saw this years ago and recently bought the title on blu-ray as a TLA Select title and appreciate the enhanced picture clarity: I recommend it.
There have not been a lot of additional gay/Mormon films since this one, but there has been the Mormon support of Proposition 8 in California, and the film about it: 8, The Mormon Proposition. And there have been some books: Perfect by Joseph Dallin, about a really dedicated Mormon boy who deals with his homosexuality, No Going Back by Jonathan Langford, who is a married, BYU Mormon who seemingly wrote the book as a warning to gay Mormon youth, and Hard Fall by James Buchanan about a gay Mormon park ranger who risks everything for a handsome stranger.
Because Latter Days is a romance, you know that it will work out in the end. The stage is set for Aaron's punishment when, in the restaurant, shock therapy is mentioned in the case of another Mormon. The extras on the BD flesh out the film nicely. The famous mother's slap was surprisingly vicious in the filmed take, we learn, and was a surprise to Steve Sandvoss/Aaron.
The gay shorts worn by Wes Ramsey/Christian are beyond weird, but the film works because there is chemistry between the leads, though both are straight in real life. And Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who originally auditioned for another role, stuck around to put in an awesome performance as Elder Ryder. All in all a remarkable effort.
There have not been a lot of additional gay/Mormon films since this one, but there has been the Mormon support of Proposition 8 in California, and the film about it: 8, The Mormon Proposition. And there have been some books: Perfect by Joseph Dallin, about a really dedicated Mormon boy who deals with his homosexuality, No Going Back by Jonathan Langford, who is a married, BYU Mormon who seemingly wrote the book as a warning to gay Mormon youth, and Hard Fall by James Buchanan about a gay Mormon park ranger who risks everything for a handsome stranger.
Because Latter Days is a romance, you know that it will work out in the end. The stage is set for Aaron's punishment when, in the restaurant, shock therapy is mentioned in the case of another Mormon. The extras on the BD flesh out the film nicely. The famous mother's slap was surprisingly vicious in the filmed take, we learn, and was a surprise to Steve Sandvoss/Aaron.
The gay shorts worn by Wes Ramsey/Christian are beyond weird, but the film works because there is chemistry between the leads, though both are straight in real life. And Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who originally auditioned for another role, stuck around to put in an awesome performance as Elder Ryder. All in all a remarkable effort.
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