A Different Story (1978)

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Paul Aaron directed this early exploration of homosexuality, starring Meg Foster and Perry King. King plays Albert, an illegal alien dumped by his filthy-rich boyfriend, who makes a home for himself as a squatter in an empty mansion. Foster plays Stella, a lesbian real estate agent who comes upon Albert as she is showing the house to a prospective buyer. Taking a shine to Albert, Stella takes him home to stay with her until he gets back on his feet. Hanging out with Stella, one thing leads to another, and soon they end up in the master bedroom, making mad, passionate love to each other, and they both discover that heterosexuality is not as bad as they thought. So much so, in fact, that Stella and Albert agree to marry, and they become a nice, cute middle-class couple. But then, as the two love birds settle into married life, Albert's ex suddenly returns to reek havoc upon their staid existence ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

Starring:: Perry King, Meg Foster, (more)

Director(s):: Paul Aaron

Theatrical MPAA Rating:: PG

Format(s):: DVD
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Synopsis of A Different Story

Theatrical Feature Running Time:: 104 mins

Complete Cast of A Different Story

Perry King - Albert Walreavens
Valerie Curtin - Phyllis
Richard Bull - Mr. Cooke
Guerin Barry - Ned
Lisa James - Chris
Richard Altman - Phyllis' neighbor
Kathryn Jackson - Nurse
Marie Denn - Coordinator
Sid Conrad - Salesman
Clarke Gordon - Mr. Taylor
Stephen Nichols - Man at Bath

Meg Foster - Stella Cooke
Peter Donat - Sills
Barbara Collentine - Mrs. Cooke
Douglas Higgins - Roger
Eugene Butler - Sam
Burke Byrnes - Richard II
Gipsi de Young - Mrs. Taylor
Linda Carpenter - Chastity
Trent Dolan - Deputy #1
Philip Levien - Chicken Man
George Skaff - Mr. Hashmoni

Director(s):: Paul Aaron

Writer(s):: Henry Olek

Producer(s):: Alan Belkin, Michael Leone

Theatrical MPAA Rating:: PG(Adult Language, Not For Children, Adult Situations)

Categories:: Romance

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	Todd O.

3 out of 4 people found this review helpful

I have to acknowledge how much the basic idea of a gay man falling in love and going straight with a Lesbian runs against the gay propaganda that one in born gay and can never be converted. Well perhaps that is true for electro-shock inversion therapy, but not for this film. King and Foster have great on screen chemistry and you really believe the characters are the best of platoniic friends, spouses, and later fall in love. Both come across as quite androgynous rather than an effeminate gay and masculine lesbian. You also have to wonder what a splash this made in mainstream theaters in 1977.

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	Andrew H.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

This film is a dramatization of the dog-eared cliche mythology that a gay man can be "turned" by the right woman, or a gay woman can be "saved" by the right man. The somewhat novel twist here is that the gay man and the lesian find their hetero-salvation in each other. King carries off a gay male persona fairly well, though it is hard to understand why the writers found it necessary to make him a completely accent-free and entirely unconvincing European. Most likely they felt he would be less threatening to insecure American masculinity if he were "foreign." Foster is merely an unimaginative straight-man's idea of a lesbian. Despite it's deep flaws, A Different Story is still worth a watch for anyone interested in historical evolution in the depiction of homosexuality in American film.