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| Title | Trick | Year | 1999 | |||||||||
| Director | Jim Fall | Writer | Jason Schafer | |||||||||
| Country | USA | Language | English | |||||||||
| Cast | Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc, Tori Spelling, Steve Hayes, Brad Beyer, Lorri Bagley, Clinton Leupp | |||||||||||
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A trash-talking drag queen, an estranged couple, a horny roommate, and a resume-wielding actress - these are a few of the people complicating matters for two young men desperately searching for a place to be alone. As sweet as it is hilarious, 'Trick' affirms the possibility of love in the most unlikely of circumstances as it follows its two appealing heroes on their perambulations through the gay demimonde of downtown Manhattan.
An aspiring musical theatre writer, Gabriel (Christian Campbell) is talented, dedicated and ambitious. But there's one problem with his songs: he's detached from the big emotions he's writing about. He needs some excitement in his life, something better than running lines with his crazy actress friend Katherine (Tori Spelling) over a chicken Caesar.
So Gabriel tries out a local cruise bar, where he briefly exchanges looks with go-go boy Mark (John Paul Pitoc), the male ideal in a red thong. Later, the two men find themselves on the same subway train. Mark's approach is no-frills, but his delivery is irresistible, and he picks up the bashful songwriter as nonchalantly as a handkerchief.
Thus begins an all-night odyssey that finds Mark and Gabriel bouncing all over downtown Manhattan as fate, friends and misunderstandings conspire to keep them from consummating their passion. But as the sun rises over Greenwich Village, the would-be lovers are left with the feeling that the evening has yielded something far more gratifying than a one-night stand.
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Two men try to find a place to encounter the passion between two men. Unfortunatly the world seems unwilling to make this happen. |
The homosexual romantic comedy I (for one) had been waiting for all my life. Sexy (but never trashy), often laugh-until-you-cry funny, smartly written and delightfully acted, "Trick" is a yummy sorbet of a movie - light, sweet and tangy, not the least bit gooey.
Sweet-faced Christian Campbell and brick-muscled, effortlessly sensual John Paul Pitoc perfectly embody the spark of young gay lust. Campbell's Gabriel spends the film in a nearly constant state of bemused frustration, all wide-wide eyes and nervous half-smiles: he seems on the verge of creaming his jeans at any moment.
Pitoc utterly succeeds in conveying the genuinely good soul beneath go-go boy Mark's pluperfect physique -- a sequence where he helps Gabriel's portly, piano-barfly buddy Perry (Steve Hanley) to reconcile with his recently estranged lover is a sweet surprise, utterly disarming.
The supporting players are uniformly superb: Lorri Bagley channels Marilyn Monroe to comic effect as the girlfriend of Gabriel's obnoxious straight roommate. Tori Spelling is a ditzy delight as Gabriel's blissfully clueless ex-girlfriend-cum-fag hag, Katherne. Best of all is Clinton Leupp as "I'm-not-bitter" drag queen Miss Coco Peru. Coco's one scene -- a high-camp soliloquy of a pseudo-woman scorned, delivered in the restroom of a gay bar as Gabriel stands at a urinal, attempting to relieve himself -- is unforgettable. In a better world, Leupp would have been nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.
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Written by Larry Duplechan |
Miss Coco Peru: "Did you ever get cum in your eye, Gabriel? It BURNS!"
Katherine: "Do you a nickname?" Mark: "Beercan." Katherine: "You must drink a lot of beer."
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