Who's in It: Ash Christian, Ashley Fink, Jonathan Caouette, Robin de Jesus
The Basics: Gay outcast kid in Texas wants to leave his small town and go to New York to be an actor. In the meantime, he casually asks another guy to the "graduation dance" (hey, movie, is using the word prom some sort of copyright infringement thing?) and quickly ends up making out with the guy, finds out his male teacher is a Liza Minnelli impersonator (and his character's name is already "Seymour Cox"), endures his overly religious mother, has sex with the school jock and sneers at everything around him alongside his best female friend.
What's the Deal? This is a cheap little no-budget thing and virtually indistinguishable from every other young gay male coming-of-age and coming-out-of-the-closet movie you can find in plentiful supply at any regional gay film festival. It features bad cinematography, bad acting, witless satire (the religious mom makes "holy hamburgers" and "Christ-filled cheeseburgers") and the same lack of bigger-world perspective it mocks its small town setting for having.
What It Steals From: Election and Napoleon Dynamite are its two biggest influences, but it should have ripped off more comedic sources, like Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds, for example. Mostly it seems content to just be its own lifeless creation.
This Movie's Idea of Irreverent, Wacky Humor: Fink, as the best female friend, gets her butt stuck between the dashboard of a vintage VW Beetle and the, uh … lap of her boyfriend in the passenger seat. They use margarine to grease her out of the predicament. Which puts this movie in the sad position of being less sophisticated than even Another Gay Movie.
And Yet: You have to admire the tenacity of its star, writer and director, Christian — who's only in his early twenties — for going out there and getting it done. I might hate the finished product, but it can't be said that he didn't work hard to create it.