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A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Pretentious Film That Reveals Little About Langston Hughes moreCast
(Credited cast) | Ben Ellison | ... | Alex |
| Matthew Baidoo | ... | Beauty |
| Akim Mogaji | ... | James |
| John Wilson | ... | Karl |
| Dencil Williams | ... | Marcus |
| Guy Burgess | ... | Dean |
| James Dublin | ... | Carlos |
| Harry Donaldson | ... | Leatherboy |
| Jimmy Somerville | ... | Angel |
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| Stuart Hall | ... | British voice (voice) |
| Langston Hughes | ... | Himself (archive footage) |
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If you're looking for a film about Langston Hughes, look elsewhere. I saw the film at the Nuart in West Los Angeles, one of the premiere specialty theaters in town. It was playing on a double bill with the virtually unwatchable, ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE GETS HIS NIPPLE PIERCED. After suffering through that hideous film, I was then subjected to a film supposedly about Langston Hughes, but really nothing more than a production designer demo. The film looked nice, but outside of a few short clips of Hughes, you wouldn't even know that the film was about him. Rather than explore the life of one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century, the film seems more interested in parading images of gay men on the screen. The film doesn't even seem to explore the alleged homosexuality of Langston Hughes, at least not in a way that a heterosexual can understand. After the film was over, the audience was so disappointed, that the line for patrons to get their money back was longer than the line to purchase tickets.