Ash Christian Movies

A spinster and a gay teen enter into an unlikely friendship that's threatened by an emerging romance in this affectionate comedy from director Nathan Adloff. Nate is a 19-year-old film student determined to make it in the movie business. Margaret (Natalie West) is Nate's 52-year-old neighbor -- an aging eccentric and compulsive coffee-cup collector. Though they may seem an unlikely match, Nate and Margaret have so much in common that they quickly become inseparable. When Nate's friend Darla sets him up with handsome James, Margaret focuses her free time on becoming a stand-up comic. Now the more time Nate and Margaret spend apart, the more they start to realize just how important they were to one another. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

When Mangus Spedgwick (Ryan Boggus) suffers an unforeseen tragedy that causes him to lose the role of Jesus in his high school production of Jesus Christ Superstar, he fights with all he's got to get back the part, and carry on the family tradition. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Two misfits struggle to make their way through the living hell that is high school in this independent comedy drama. Rodney (Ash Christian) lives in a small Texas town where most folks don't have much use for musical theater or much understanding of the gay lifestyle. Since the barely closeted Rodney wants little else besides a boyfriend and the leading role in a Broadway show, this doesn't make life easy for him, and he has only one close friend -- Sabrina (Ashley Fink), a smart and funny girl who happens to weigh nearly three hundred pounds. Sabrina encourages Rodney to embrace his inner "fat girl," and he finds someone who understands his dreams when he strikes up a friendship with Mr. Cox (Jonathan Caouette), the school's drama coach, who also does a mean Liza Minnelli impersonation in his spare time. Written and directed by leading man Ash Christian when he was only 20 years old, Fat Girls was screened in competition at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi