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Title: This Ain't Hogwarts
Review: Alas, poor Rupert Everett: he's so hopelessly good-looking that he makes people forget he's actually a fine actor. In this British boarding school drama, he gets to ponder the meaning of his privileged life. In the secret world of school prefects and gods, everyone dallies in same-sex relationships, yet assumes they'll go on to respectable marriages. Not Guy Bennett (Everett), though - he's hopelessly in love with a recently-graduated former classmate. He risks his future for his ideals of sexual equality, but finds some measure of acceptance from his ardently Communist best friend, Tommy Judd (played by a young Colin Firth). (It raises an interesting question: are Communists born that way?) The acting is good, and I applaud the movie's message.
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