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Title: A PALLID REHASH OF "BEAUTIFUL THING"
Review: It's nice to see an intelligent, compassionate film about a young gay boy finding love in a very positive, supportive society (NOT in Texas, by the way, as the title might suggest, but in Belgium, where gay marriage has been legal for some time). But I (for one) found the young leading man in this film one of the dullest young actors I've ever seen. Perhaps he's deliberately so, since the character he plays is baleful, moody, and spiteful: altogether a real pill. But (the movie suggests) even a "pill" can find love in Belgium. The British film BEAUTIFUL THING covers the same topography with a much more sympathetic protagonist and an ebulliant score featuring Mama Cass recordsings. [If you must see it, get an All-Region DVD player from Philips and start buying your foreign films from British Amazon for a fraction of the price scalpers charge you as middle-men.]
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