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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Film ThreatPhil HallFilm ThreatPhil HallProvocative and poignant.
- 40The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasWithout contrivances, the movie would only run about five minutes.
- 40VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerMessy admixtures of drama and mockery crucially undermine pic's serious message.
- 30Chicago ReaderAndrea GronvallChicago ReaderAndrea Gronvall"Soppy" doesn't begin to describe this 2004 drama by Quentin Lee.
- By the time we reach the "Butch Cassidy"-inspired climax, any filaments of credibility still clinging to these characters have completely disappeared.
- 25New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoThe one highlight is Julia Nickson, who breathes life into the role of Ethan's evil stepmom.
- 20Village VoiceVillage VoiceAn exhausting exercise in genre mixing.
- 20L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyNobody onscreen seems to realize that this deadeningly self-serious treatment of family dysfunction is so overwrought that it becomes a spot-on satire of low-budget ineptitude.
- 0San Francisco ChronicleJohn McMurtrieSan Francisco ChronicleJohn McMurtrieDesperately wants to deal dramatically with the legitimate issues of homosexuality, tolerance, homelessness and drug use. But to do so, the movie, like Ethan, would first need to grow up.