8 February 2009
Save Me (2007)
This was a surprisingly good movie. Eugene and I have an ongoing journey to find good “gay” movies, and it often results in watching anything on Netflix that has more than an average of three stars in the gay and lesbian category. This unfortunately leads to watching some awful, awful stuff. So imagine the relief when, on the other hand, Save Me was pretty great. While the poster is baiting, the story itself remains level-headed, grounded in particular by tbe boss herself, Judith Light. She’s the leading light at the “righting” camp, and her reasons for re-aligning homos are not as clear as she would have anyone believe. This allows the film to leisurely examine a grounded and believable relationship between her and her proxy son (Chad Allen–my only complaint is that it wasn’t Danny Pintauro!).