Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

Blistering performances.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

........."Finding The One Who Helps You Find Yourself".So, Folks......we could play a little game of "second-guess the Director?" Just kidding; after all, trying to do the "Monday morning quarterback-ing" thing is too easy a way out.......especially if we're honest and admit that David Lewis did do the biggest, most important-est thing right. What is that, you may ask? Well, in the case of a gay romance, be it a comedy or otherwise, doing the right thing is finding and bringing together two male leads who've got "C-H-E-M-I-S-T-R-Y" with one another. And in the case of Sean Hoagland and Owen Alabado, it's undeniably there---it's "cutely" there, I might add (a term which fittingly describes them and what we increasingly see them come across as). While some leads grab you from the very beginning.......others grow on you. These two are of the latter persuasion, but along the way they do hook you nevertheless. Honestly, in the initial scenes I was thinking: these two guys can't act, (particularly Sean's way of expressing himself---though it grows on you), but before long they were reeling me in. So, maybe this pair didn't have the acting "chops" to give us what a Cyrille Thouvenin and Stephan Guerin-Tillie ("Just A Question Of Love") gave us, or even what a Trevor Wright and Brad Rowe ("Shelter") happily bestowed upon us, but what they did give us was real enough. Thanks, Boys.Not to let Director Lewis off the hook completely, while others have already complained of over-numerous surfside and coastline "nature" scenes, as well as the big misstep of thinking he could effectively/believably act the minister role, I won't have to echo those thoughts. BUT.......I do feel I have to add this: in a religious community in which someone like "Brady's mother" would find herself comfortably at home, no way would I expect to find such a gay-understanding, "servant of the lord" as Reverend Brown. On the other hand, I also wouldn't expect to find in that "little white-steepled church" community a character such as Katheryn Hecht's "out-there" mother (Angie) either.To me, much of this film pits religious indoctrination (read: interpretation of the bible) vs. learning to be---and accepting---oneself. Brady, finally, epiphanies (please let me make that a verb) that he can be who he is.......and still have his religion. As he, in a closing scene, says to his mother: "I just want you to love me".......then forgives her after she replies she can't change either.Lastly, for myself and others of you who are observant and find positive meanings in such things, I'd like to ask that you remember the place to which Brady finds his way in the film's final scene is that very same beach-side location at which he first encountered Clifford. We are now sure with whom his thoughts remain. Plus, this realization then reminds me most tellingly of a bit of conversation occurring the morning following their night of love making. Laying in Clifford's embrace, Brady is asked by him: "How're you feeling?" Very significantly, Brady's answer simply is: "Safe." (Can any of you think of a more meaningful response to one's lover in this situation?). PS--Oh, yeah, and who's to say that there isn't a good prospect of a "reunion" between a more accepting, "reborn" Brady and a Clifford---whose mother, after all, will still be needing visits at her Rock Haven home?***This film is becoming "Addictive." Other such habit formers: "Brokeback Mountain" / "Boy Culture" / "All Over The Guy" / "Second Skin" / "The Man I Love" / "Latter Days"****

I just finished watching this film. I really liked it, but there are a couple of problems. The writing was good, but the silences were extremely awkward. Also, what's up with the montage of wave scenes. It started feeling like a commercial for some sort of douche...summer's eve, anyone? Also, the ending was so anti-climactic. This is the spoiler part. Okay, so this guy is about to leave to Barcelona. Why would this guy that is so in love with him just wander around staring at the ocean? The whole reason I loved the film was because they really seemed to love each other, and in the end, it's about him coming to terms with it? That's the first step, the next is you get your butt to the airport so that you can get him back. That was so disappointing. Like sex with no real climactic ending. No pun intended.P.S. Great frontal nudity. Very risqué.

You have got to be kidding me. This movie was more poorly acted and devoid of substance than a Lifetime movie! Ten minutes in and we were praying for Meredith Baxter-Burny or Judith Light to save the day. It's hard to know where to start. There are a total of seven people in the town, it seems. There is positively no chemistry between Brady and Clifford. The scenes are stiff and choppy. The reverend is HORRIBLE, and I'm not sure if the viewer is supposed to assume he is obviously gay. Lines don't make any sense ("You look more and more like your father." "You need to get out more." WHAT?) Too bad - the concept for this movie is a good one, but this low budget piece of poop simply bounces between pathetic and hysterical.

I was really enjoying this movie because I, well, grew up Catholic, 'nough said? Anyways, the story was true to life except for the horrible acting of the minister and the bigger disappointment was when the "christian" boy let true love just go away.....because of his love for God???? It shows how we are all brainwashed as children and why it makes coming out and accepting ones self so hard. Why couldn't he of had both???? I WOULD NEVER HAVE LET SUCH LOVE GET AWAY....TRUE LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP AND HE JUST LETS HIM GO............UNBELIEVABLE!!!! I really enjoyed this film until the end so I gave it a 4. If he would have accepted himself and his love for another guy, I would have given it a 9 because of how true most of what he went through was (is). It just makes me so mad that he was so very brainwashed as not to accept his very deep love for both God and another man. No wonder there are so many young gays that turn to drugs and alcohol or commit suicide.