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Preacher's kid Henry Gamble is turning 17 today. Bring your swimsuit.Preacher's kid Henry Gamble is turning 17 today. Bring your swimsuit.Preacher's kid Henry Gamble is turning 17 today. Bring your swimsuit.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 2 nominations total
Travis A. Knight
- Keith Noble
- (as Travis Knight)
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- Writer
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- TriviaOne of the gifts Henry Gamble receives on his birthday is a DVD of Gregg Araki's film Kaboom.
- Quotes
[opening lines]
Henry Gamble: How big is yours?
Gabe: Soft or hard?
Henry Gamble: Hard.
Gabe: I don't know. Last time I checked it was, like, six inches, but that was in... like, seventh grade, so it probably grew.
Henry Gamble: Oh.
Gabe: It's probably more like seven now, maybe even eight.
Henry Gamble: Do you want to measure it now?
Gabe: I'm not hard.
Henry Gamble: Oh.
Gabe: Are you?
Henry Gamble: No.
Gabe: How big are YOU?
Henry Gamble: Like... six and a half.
Gabe: That's cool. Not bad.
- Crazy creditsFor Amy, April, Brad, Diane and Tami.
- ConnectionsFeatures The Red Balloon (1956)
- SoundtracksFlytrap
Written and performed by YAWN
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This is a really lovely film by a filmmaker I had not heard of. Never in a rush to get anywhere, Stephen Cone's film weaves its way so naturally through these intersecting lives, as they jump in and out of the pool at Henry Gamble's 17th Birthday Party. Everyone has a crush on someone else, no one is satisfied, and yet there's nothing melodramatic, just subtle body language, and flashes of accidental honesty. I was immediately intrigued - from the first innocent conversation between two teen boys casually exaggerating the size of their members, to the prophetic line Henry announces to his family, as he looks at the time on the morning of the party, "I was just born." The family is very Christian, dad is the local pastor so there's prayer before meals, and they don't touch alcohol, which makes the homosexual subtext (among other secrets) at the beginning of the movie all the more intriguing. Coming out movies had their heyday, and to do one nowadays requires it to be a lot more, which this movie is. Mr. Cone's delicate hand, and his subtle message of compassion is never overwhelmed by the enormous, talented, relatively unknown cast, or the inherent drama of teenage angst.
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- Henry Gamble'ın Doğum Günü Partisi
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- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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- 2.39:1
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By what name was Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015) officially released in India in English?
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