Over the weekend, my friend Mark turned me on to this little gay film called "Mulligans," and I quickly found myself under the spell of my third Canadian in a week (and would you believe none of them are related to the Olympics?).
"Mulligans" is about a college kid who brings a (closeted) buddy home for the summer to the family lake house. After the friend comes out of the closet, it causes the college kid's dad -- played by Dan Payne, perhaps
the hottest man I've ever seen in my entire life -- to face his own repressed feelings, which -- um --
climax in his having an affair with his son's buddy. As titillating as the plot and the dad are, the film -- which was written by and costars Charlie David, whom I recognized from "Four Letter Word" and is a regular on "Dante's Cove" -- is handicapped by some really bad acting and even worse casting, which includes having near-30-year-olds playing college kids while having the woman who played Lindsay on "Queer as Folk" play the mother of someone who is 10 years her junior. While it hardly lives up to the poster's grandiose claims -- "The Graduate" for a New Generation -- it was still fun to watch (I did via the
Netflix streaming feature) -- almost entirely because of the 6-4, 230-pound Mr. Payne (he's a tall drink of water, eh?).
Over the weekend, my friend Mark turned me on to this little gay film called "Mulligans," and I quickly found myself under the spell of my third Canadian in a week (and would you believe none of them are related to the Olympics?).
"Mulligans" is about a college kid who brings a (closeted) buddy home for the summer to the family lake house. After the friend comes out of the closet, it causes the college kid's dad -- played by Dan Payne, perhaps the hottest man I've ever seen in my entire life -- to face his own repressed feelings, which -- um -- climax in his having an affair with his son's buddy. As titillating as the plot and the dad are, the film -- which was written by and costars Charlie David, whom I recognized from "Four Letter Word" and is a regular on "Dante's Cove" -- is handicapped by some really bad acting and even worse casting, which includes having near-30-year-olds playing college kids while having the woman who played Lindsay on "Queer as Folk" play the mother of someone who is 10 years her junior. While it hardly lives up to the poster's grandiose claims -- "The Graduate" for a New Generation -- it was still fun to watch (I did via the Netflix streaming feature) -- almost entirely because of the 6-4, 230-pound Mr. Payne (he's a tall drink of water, eh?).
6 comments:
Funny, I also watched this movie over the weekend and thought Dan Payne was a hottie.
Great movie! I also thoroughly enjoyed it and had a HUGE crush on the dad!
This movie played on the LOGO channel for many months.....Yawn!
it sucks me in as well, whenever i catch it on tv. dan payne is the hotness, for sure. that is my kinda DADDY! (and yes, the "parents" in it did look like contemporaries for their son).
but the guy from BUMP! with whom he has the affair seriously needs to do something about his eyebrows, i think. he's an attractive guy (which is lucky cuz he ain't exactly shakespearean caliber), but there's a definite creep factor there...
...or maybe i'm still bitter that BUMP! replaced that other gay travel show on logo with the smokin' hot aussie.
...or maybe i just watch too much damn logo.
the dad...oh my...incredible hotness.
I foolishly watched this movie on tv a while back strictly because of Dan Payne. He was so cute as one of the old timey superheroes in Watchmen.
-Dean
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