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Lots of explicit sex in this flick, which is nice--makes it much more realistic when things are covered up. As the manager of a movie theater, Todd Verow (also the director) conveys the boredom of someone who only lives to fornicate, but finds that he has to do repulsive work in order to do what he really wants. Best part of it is that it was filmed on the sly while the director was actually working at a movie theater. The wonders of small digital cameras. Even the scene where his boyfriend beats him up in the theater men's room was filmed in the real theater men's room at the Loew's on Times Square. So everything seemed real. The protagonist gets kicked out of his home, loses his job, lives in a park. It's a morality tale, with a nicely ambiguous ending. Recommended if you like hot sex scenes.

..as actor, writer, and director -- a triple threat. His exhibitionism and egotism are only exceeded by his lack of charisma and talent. The picture's rhythms are off, the dialogue pretentious and ridiculous, and his voice a horror to listen to. I suppose we're meant to be sympathetic to, or at least care about, his dull, feckless protagonist, but I found it impossible to do so.

It's truly an excruciating experience to sit through this amateurish tripe, although if you're in the middle of a rowdy crowd that hates the movie and doesn't mind saying so (as I was at NY's Two Boots Pioneer last night at 9pm), it can be a bonding, Rocky-Horror-like interactive experience. Last previous one for me was at "Gigli."

A daring and sexy film by Todd Verow in which he also stars. He directs himself completely without vanity in so painful to watch scenes of a sad and pathetic character who we feel so much for. It is unlike anything I have scene before in that it is so real, so unlike a movie as we are used to that there is nothing to compare it too. The way the movie is shot, it looks like it was filmed with various surveillance cameras is scary and reminds us just how small all of ours lives have become in this digital age, how removed we are from our beings. Yet somehow there is a longing a romance even, a hope. I can't stop thinking about this movie, and to me that makes it a great film.

Saw this at a festival about a year ago and was impressed only by the guts it takes to make such a poor quality film. I looked up some of this guy's other work and it looks like he hasn't improved any over the years. I was shocked to see the guy's been at it for this long. At the screening, he looked too old to be doing such amateurish stuff, but who am I to judge? I went to see it. The sex scenes were obviously made to be gritty, but if you watch Indies, it's nothing you haven't seen before. Its description seemed promising, but it didn't deliver in the ways I'd hoped. Like being well made, engaging, and original. After going to festivals for over 10 years, my standards are higher than most, but I just don't want anyone to waste any time on this one.

I hated Gus Van Sant once, until I stood back to see where he was coming from and where he was going. Verow sucks in many aspects of film making, but he is speaking some truth and under the bizarre cinematic masturbation (and that's literal in the case of this film) there is something special going on. This is not a great intro to Verow films. Frisk is much stronger and Once and Future Queen benefits from not starring him. If you're interested in what one potential of the Digital revolution might create, you have to see his work. Not great, but significant. I need more lines..... Um..Well, as guerrilla film-making goes, this guy is Che. The sex scene in the Movie theater bathroom made me squirm, and not in an erotic way. He hits a visceral nerve. The realism was almost too real and the line bwt film and life were so blurred it ventured into reality TV. That edge is desperately needed in "independent' film.