It's a classic case of opposite attraction: Handsome Ben Bennet is a gay, affluent, stylish attorney at the top of the genteel social set in southern Virginia, while Lee Darcy is a rough-hewn welder with a secret that he nightly tries to blot out with an excess of liquor.
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There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.
To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
Abousloutly amazing gay themed film. With charming two main characters. Both are performing perfectly. The whole story is just based on our normally life. Wish I would meet someone like Ethan sharrett falling in love with me. That would be my gift from GOD ! This is a must seen film if you are not too colourful ! Thanks for bring such a greatful gay movie to my life. It gives me courages and hopes!
Before the Fall is bad in every way. Terrible screenplay, terrible direction, terrible acting. Even the potentially beautiful Appalachian Mountains setting (which state it's supposed to be is debatable, but the mountains are not) is ruined by the overwhelming STUPIDITY of everything else. I mean, what lawyer conducts a confidential interview, discussing a third person in a way that would qualify as slander anywhere on earth, in the public hallway of his office, directly in front of the waiting room door, for anybody who may be waiting there to hear?The whole movie is like that: stupid people saying and doing unvaryingly stupid things in the most unrealistic, unbelievable way possible. And there's an extremely annoying, cloying synthesizer-piano muzak soundtrack, the same dull, soporific notes played over and over, oozing its sappy way through every scene, constantly underlining the unrelenting stupidity of everything we see and hear.I HATE this movie! The guy who plays Lee is gorgeous -- and I mean breathtaking -- but, just like the mountains, his beauty is buried in the mudslide of stupidity that swallows everything in its path.Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's best work by far, one of the finest and most deeply satisfying novels ever written. It's so good that it has survived many bad adaptations, including this one. But writer-director Byrum Geisler (whoever he is) really shouldn't have told anybody what he was trying to do, because his failure is so monumental that he SHOULD be too embarrassed now to show his face anywhere. There is no HINT of Pride and Prejudice, or any of its marvelous characters, STILL alive 200 years after she created them -- not the tiniest spark of Austen's genius -- anywhere in this stupid movie.
I am a gay man and love gay themed movies, therefore I watched this title. The film location is beautiful! I loved to see the fall colors and old southern style houses with impressive decor. Unfortunately his movie did not impress me any further. The acting was very stiff and ad-libbed, it even made me laugh during some "serious" scenes. The third person perspective was too obvious and therefore I did not feel included in the story and the characters their feelings. The story was very predictable and an other same old, same old gay doesn't want to admit he is gay and the openly gay guy is in love with him.I can tell they put a lot of time and effort in this movie and therefore it is such a shame it did not really work out in the end.
This film is based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and it borrows quite a bit from its source, but it is very much its own story. The differences are enough to allow it to be judged on its own. The gorgeous Virginia and Great Smoky mountain scenery only enhance the beauty of the film. The characters are believable in their flawed reality. There is comic relief at times, even campy silliness with a couple characters, but they really don't detract from the poignant plot progression. These people feel very real, perhaps even like people we know. Yes, all of them; the main characters, the friends, the girlfriends. Most of us know people like this, might want to step into the story and have a stern talk with them (or more). The slow pace may put off some viewers who would be impatient for the story to move along, for the characters to just "get over themselves." Let them be. They will work it all out the best way they can.