What's this, Russell Crowe playing it gay in a low budget Australian flick, could that be true? It doesn't sound like it from the surface, but digging a little deeper and that really is exactly what you have in The Sum of Us, a freakishly good low budget movie from 1994. The Sum of Us is basically the sum of a story of looking for love, first the widowed dad is looking for love and his 'Miss Right' whilst his twentyish son is also looking for love, but in the shape of his 'Mr Right'.
This surprisingly endearing movie made on a budget less than most films spend on catering and cakes, is a witty and funny tale of love and laughter. The Sum of Us is not your typical gay movie in that nobody is dying, activism is not on the menu, nor is there a historical horror or an aggressive and overbearing father preventing the closet door from opening and not even the slightest hint of drag! Nope, this is a good and happy sort of soft tale, which has some nice funny bits and a couple of tender scenes to pique the heartstrings.
The Sum of Us is taken directly from the stage play, as such, some of the lines are more 'stagey' than 'filmy' but get over those, and you have a very enjoyable film. Funny, interesting, charming, touching and rather refreshingly free from overt stereotypes, which can dog so many other gay films.
Read more and find out where this film made it in the Top 50 Most Influential Gay Movies of All Time book, search on Amazon for Top 50 Most Influential Gay Movies of All Time, or visit - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007FU7HPO
This surprisingly endearing movie made on a budget less than most films spend on catering and cakes, is a witty and funny tale of love and laughter. The Sum of Us is not your typical gay movie in that nobody is dying, activism is not on the menu, nor is there a historical horror or an aggressive and overbearing father preventing the closet door from opening and not even the slightest hint of drag! Nope, this is a good and happy sort of soft tale, which has some nice funny bits and a couple of tender scenes to pique the heartstrings.
The Sum of Us is taken directly from the stage play, as such, some of the lines are more 'stagey' than 'filmy' but get over those, and you have a very enjoyable film. Funny, interesting, charming, touching and rather refreshingly free from overt stereotypes, which can dog so many other gay films.
Read more and find out where this film made it in the Top 50 Most Influential Gay Movies of All Time book, search on Amazon for Top 50 Most Influential Gay Movies of All Time, or visit - http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B007FU7HPO