'LATTER DAYS' IS FAR FROM BEING A RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE.Byline: Valerie Kuklenski Staff Writer `LATTER DAYS'' is about a Silver Lake gay man who flits from one nameless affair to another and his new neighbors, four squeaky-clean young men sent into this heathen hotbed hotbed, low, glass-covered frame structure for starting tender plants. It differs from a cold frame only in that the soil is heated—either artificially as by underground electric wiring or steampipes, or naturally with partially fermented stable manure, which to preach the teachings of the Book of Mormon Book of Mormon supplementary bible of the Latter-Day Saints. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 455] See : Writings, Sacred . Sounds like the kind of movie that might appeal to, I dunno, maybe all seven openly gay Mormons and not many others. It plays a little better when viewed for its themes of prejudice, change, guilt and redemption. ``Latter Days'' opens with a sex scene peppered with the kind of dialogue one would expect from a bad X-rated video. It's intended to set up the kind of guy (irony alert) Christian (Wes Ramsey Wesley A. Ramsey (born October 6, 1977, Louisville, Kentucky, United States) is an American actor. Biography Wes Ramsey’s love for acting began at age 12; from that time on he knew acting would be his profession. ) is, a 20-something hunk for whom all sex is casual. His life revolves around working out, waiting tables at a chic bistro owned by Lila (Jacqueline Bisset Jacqueline Bisset (born Winifred Jacqueline Fraser-Bisset on 13 September 1944) is an English actress. Biography Early life Bisset was born in Weybridge, Surrey, England to Max Fraser-Bisset, a Scottish General Practitioner, and the former Arlette ) and playing the field. When four strapping young dudes move in next door, Christian presumes they are gay, but he is wrong. Or so it seems. Christian accepts a playful wager from his co-workers to bed one of the Mormons and bring in his sacred underwear as proof of the deed. It will be quite a challenge, given that the missionary position missionary position n. A position for sexual intercourse in which a woman and man lie facing each other, with the woman on the bottom and the man on the top. in this case is no sex of any kind. Elder Ryder (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) makes clear to Christian his disdain for homosexuals, while Elder Aaron Davis (Steve Sandvoss) changes the subject to preserve the peace. One day Christian trips and falls outside, needing Aaron's help with first aid on, of all places, his buttock but·tock n. 1. Either of the two rounded prominences on the human torso that are posterior to the hips and formed by the gluteal muscles and underlying structures. 2. buttocks The rear pelvic area of the human body. . One thing very nearly leads to another until Aaron denounces Christian as shallow for his utter lack of a belief in anything meaningful, be it a religion or a need for sex with love attached. Sometime later, their first kiss is witnessed by the other missionaries, which leads to Aaron being sent home to Idaho. But Christian, converted to the idea of being in love, pursues Aaron during a layover lay·o·ver n. A short stop or break in a journey, usually imposed by scheduling requirements. Noun 1. layover - a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" stopover, stop in Salt Lake City and they spend the night together in an airport inn. Aaron reunites in Pocatello with his bitterly ashamed mother (Mary Kay Place Mary Kay Place (b. September 23 1947, Port Arthur, Texas) is an American actress, singer, director and screen writer. Early Career After graduating from the University of Tulsa with a Speech Degree, Place moved to Hollywood with aspirations of becoming an actress and ) and is excommunicated from the church in a hearing led by his own father. For Aaron and Christian, the issue becomes finding out the right way to resolve the relationship, the right way to deal with pain, the right way to live. Writer-director C. Jay Cox C. Jay Cox (born 1962 in Nevada) is an American director, actor and writer. Filmography Actor
Sandvoss is warmly appealing as Aaron, although Cox made his sexual initiation too confident. Ramsey's most convincing scenes, unfortunately, are the ones in which he is a shallow cad. Valerie Kuklenski, (818) 713-3750 valerie.kuklenski(at)dailynews.com LATTER DAYS - Two and one half stars (Not rated: sex, nudity, language) Starring: Steve Sandvoss, Wes Ramsey, Rebekah Jordan, Jacqueline Bisset, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mary Kay Place. Director: C. Jay Cox. Running time: 1 hr. 48 min. Playing: Laemmle Playhouse 7 in Pasadena, Regent Showcase in Los Angeles, Regal University 6 in Irvine. In a nutshell: Who converts whom in this story of a Mormon missionary seeking souls for his church and a gay man looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. something more than anonymous one-night stands? CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Steve Sandvoss plays a Mormon Elder who is ex-communicated from the church after a homosexual encounter in ``Latter Days.'' |
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