Love and Death on Long Island (1998)

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Honestly, I’m not sure how or why I ended up watching this flick. I think I have even saw it when it was released in the theaters. Anyway, it is a really obscure and odd feature, which came and went completely unnoticed but I thought it was fairly enjoyable. Of course, you could think that the appeal was to see Jason Priestley playing around with his image (he was still actually playing in ‘Be... read more

Description: Giles De'ath; widower, stuffy British author, out-of-step fogey. Giles gets locked out of his house one day and opts to see an E.M. Forrester adaptation at a local cinema to pass the time. He mistakenly goes into the wrong theater and, as he is about to leave the purile American film, notices a young actor who immediately strikes his fancy. From there, we go on a journey with Giles as his obsession with the mediocre young actor goes from slight interest to a schoolgirl-like obsession. This evolution ultimately brings him to Chesterton, Long Island, home of the actor. His miraculous encounter with the lad in some ways pushes the Giles De'ath; widower, stuffy British author, out-of-step fogey. Giles gets locked out of his house one day and opts to see an E.M. Forrester adaptation at a local cinema to pass the time. He mistakenly goes into the wrong theater and, as he is about to leave the purile American film, notices a young actor who immediately strikes his fancy. From there, we go on a journey with Giles as his obsession with the mediocre young actor goes from slight interest to a schoolgirl-like obsession. This evolution ultimately brings him to Chesterton, Long Island, home of the actor. His miraculous encounter with the lad in some ways pushes the reserved Brit's emotional threshold over the top. The subtext of homosexuality is too obvious to be taken seriously, for the real subtext is something more subtle. ... (more) (less)