Carlo Gustaff Movies
Stretching from the 1970s to the 1990s, The Trip chronicles the often turbulent romance between two gay men. One night in 1973, teenagers Tommy (Steve Braun) and Alan (Larry Sullivan) meet at an L.A. party. While Tommy is openly gay and organizes for gay civil rights, Alan, an aspiring journalist, is a repressed, button-down member of the Young Republicans who is working on his first book, a thick volume about the evils of homosexuality. On the pretext of interviewing him for his book, Alan invites Tommy to his house for dinner, where the sexual tension between the two is so throbbingly blatant that Alan's girlfriend makes a hasty exit. An intense romance between the two men follows. When we next see them, it's 1976, and Alan's book has been published anonymously and is being used by right-wingers who are supporting Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" campaign in Florida. Unfortunately, Tommy finds out that Alan wrote the book and leaves him, and subsequently takes up with Peter (Ray Baker) an affluent closet case. It isn't until the '90s that Alan and Tommy meet again, and are confronted by the romance they thought they had long left behind. The Trip was screened at the 2002 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Larry Sullivan, Steve Braun, (more)
- 2001
Four men with a shared traumatic past come together for a reunion that has disturbing consequences in this gritty independent drama. Ten years ago, Nick (Theo Nicholas Pagones), Ryan (Christopher Jacobs), Danny (Jesse Harper), and Patrick (Elan James) all ran on the same track team in high school in Madrid, NM. Today, they're living in Los Angeles, and they decide to ride back to Madrid together for a reunion with their track coach (Vance Strickland). However, it turns out the four aren't planning to swap funny stories about old times; they were all sexually abused by the coach and are planning to get revenge for his actions. Boys From Madrid was a multiple award winner at the 2001 Phoenix Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Theo Pagones, Jesse Harper, (more)
- 1996
- R
In this thriller, a detective helps save a prostitute from a stalker. The gumshoe's investigation throws them into a world where no one is quite who they seem and where everyone has a shady past. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Maud Adams, Timothy Bottoms, (more)
- 1994
A sex therapist is forced to turn detective to keep herself out of prison in this steamy thriller. Journalist Shoshona Reed (Elizabeth Sandifer) has a knack for digging up incriminating information -- enough so that she's begun blackmailing a number of people and threatening to run incriminating stories about them if they don't pay up. Shoshona is a client of sex therapist Rebecca Mathis (Shannon Tweed), and when Shoshona is killed, Rebecca becomes a suspect in the murder investigation. To save her own skin, Rebecca begins investigating Shoshona's death, and she discovers that there are a number of people who might have wanted her dead, including Darrell Martine (Chad McQueen), a disturbed ex-convict, and Tom Mueller (Craig Stepp), a businessman with a secret. Indecent Behavior III followed this picture a year later. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
