Loggerheads

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beautiful dreamy sunday afternoon viewing

Loggerheads

Manufacturer: Tla Releasing
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ASIN: B000KCHWAE
Release Date: 2007-08-01

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beautiful dreamy sunday afternoon viewing.......2008-03-02

this was a such a loving movie, was a real pleasure to see the depiction of HIV and not being in such a mode that it rules the whole story line. this movie is set in north carolina and centres around Kip Purdue (hot hot hot) and his move from a religious home to follow his mission to save turtles (believe me sounds corny but this is not a major drive of the movie). He was adopted into this family after a mother had to give him up due to her age and the story focuses on these three aspects, the preacher and his wife (they lost their adopted son due to their beliefs) the mother who gave him up and is desperate to find the son she has always missed and him finally finding a home where he is loved..

you will be dazzled by the coastal shots of North carolina I am already looking to book a flight there....the story is so heart felt and true and not messed up with typical gay themed movies of over the top camp charactetrs...these are real gay men lving a real ife...the acting is gorgeous and you will be made aware to the end of the movie the time lines are different...the scene under the pier is so innocent and the music soothes your very heart..

it will make you cry when you see what happens and it strangley stays with you for some time....a great story great acting a believabel plot and a back drop that will brighten your day!

buy it watch it and it will blow away and dark clouds in the sky...

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Building up to an anti-climax
"If you were my mom, would you want to meet me?"

Loggerheads [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Starring: Kip Pardue , Michael Kelly , Tess Harper , Adrian Lee (III) , and Tammy Arnold
Director: Tim Kirkman
Manufacturer: Strand Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000E0WJUK
Release Date: 2006-03-21

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Building up to an anti-climax.......2006-05-07

This is a good film, if somewhat slow, spoiled by the final ten minutes. The denouement to which it appears to be heading never takes place. Instead, we are presented with a big hole where the heart of the film should be and are left to guess what has happened. The viewer is left trying to figure out whether Mark met his "mother" or not. No explanation is offered as to why he ran away for a second time nor whether he returned to George, who had been so kind to him. A failure of nerve on the part of the writer?

"If you were my mom, would you want to meet me?".......2006-03-24

Unfolding in three carefully layered separate storylines, Loggerheads is a quietly deceptive movie that demands patience and a sort of intuitive skill from the viewer. Supposedly based on a true story, tale involving adoption, conservative Christianity, homosexuality and AIDS, some viewers may be put off by it's somewhat heavy handed approach, but the film is mostly saved by some wonderful performances, particularly by Bonnie Hunt in what is a dramatic departure from her usual comedic roles.

In Asheville, North Carolina, middle-aged Grace (Hunt) is back in her briskly managerial mother's (Michael Learned) house after some rough times that included a suicide attempt. Grace is determined to track down the child she gave birth to at 17 and gave up for adoption at mom's insistence. Because adoption records are sealed under the state's laws, she underhandedly hires a private investigator to find him.

Meanwhile, miles away in suburban Eden, chirpy and nosy Elizabeth (Tess Harper), feigns normalcy whilst both she and minister husband Robert (Chris Sarandon) strain to ignore the truth behind Marc, their runaway son. Both Elizabeth and Robert are strict religious conservatives, who when they discovered Marc kissing a boy, bought down their entire fire and brimstone wrath upon him.

Marc has since vanished and hasn't been heard from since; mention of him is shrouded in taboo and secrecy. Earth-motherly neighbor Rachel (Robin Weigert), however, reveals she knows his whereabouts perhaps allowing for one last chance of reconciliation for Elizabeth. Mark (Kip Pardue) has actually ended up in the coastal town of Kure Beach, for no reason beyond a fascination with the loggerhead turtles that can be seen making their way from shore to sea at night.

Local police don't tolerate drifters, but hunky motel owner George, (Michael Kelly) who is mourning the loss of a male partner who drowned mysteriously, offers free lodging to Mark, who confesses that he is H.I.V.-positive. Marc and George develop a melancholy, very hesitant romantic bond; it's an affair that is haunted by the tragedy of their respective pasts.

As Marc and George become closer, Mark's anxious spirit hovers over the lives of Elizabeth and Grace. Caught between maternal love and religious dogma, Elizabeth misses her only son terribly. She just can't come to terms with the fact that her son is gone, yet the issue of his homosexuality just sits too uncomfortably with her husband. When two men and a little boy move into the house across the street, Elizabeth speculates that their new neighbors might be same sex daddies with an adopted son.

As Grace, Ms. Hunt As Grace, Ms. Hunt, conveys an agonizing sense of personal incompleteness compounded by years of pent-up shame. She aches to reconnect with her long-lost son, whilst fending off the judgment of her officious mother, who would prefer for Grace to forget it all and just move on.

Director Tim Kirkman bathes his movie in a kind-hearted tenderness and melancholy, and you really get the sense that it isn't easy being any of the troubled characters in this movie. The actors are so good that you instantly believe in these characters and really sympathize with them. With overheard radio broadcasts - designating the time period as late in President Clinton's second term or early in George W. Bush's first - are often the only signal the script is jumping around in time, it takes a while to sort out just what is going on and when, and it's a little confusing at first.

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