5.2
Testosterone
2003
Love and Death on Long Island (1998)
July 3, 19981h 33mEN
6.3
56 votes
Overview
Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.
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Richard KwietniowskiWriters
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German
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BBCArts Council of EnglandBritish Screen ProductionsSkyline FilmsImagexTéléfilm Canada
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7.0“Giles De’Ath” (John Hurt) is a rather reclusive writer who has largely shunned publicity until he goes to the cinema and inadvertently finds himself watching a piece of throwaway teen nonsense starring heartthrob “Ronnie” (Jason Priestly). For reasons that he can’t immediately explain this recently widowed gent finds himself enthralled by this young man and has soon bought himself a VCR (without knowing he needed a television too), then signed up at his local Blockbuster to rent just about every bit of pulp this lad has graced. Now entirely entranced, he travels to Long Island, takes a room i…
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