A coming-out, coming-of-age tale set in Memphis Tennessee.A coming-out, coming-of-age tale set in Memphis Tennessee.A coming-out, coming-of-age tale set in Memphis Tennessee.
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- 4 wins
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- TriviaON SCREEN: Based upon the screenplay: Shades of Blue Written by Morgan Jon Fox in the fall of 1997
- Crazy creditsthis if for the boys who love boys for the girls who love girls
- Alternate versionsFilm festival screening version was 115 minutes, the DVD version, now the only one commercially/publicly available, is 87 minutes.
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Written and Performed by Loggia
(Soul is cheap records, Memphis, TN)
Copyright 2003 Rural Metro Music
Featured review
A familiar story but told with honesty
One can't watch this film without the gut feeling that it's a story the writer had to tell. Absent any melodramatic flourishes and self-consciously arty touches or sub-plots, it tells a familiar story with such honesty and immediacy that it's as if you are living among Sam, Julien, their families, and friends. Through the poetry of their inarticulateness and the lack of any artifice both Sam and Julian are iconic: Sam, the popular high school kid who only appears to fit in with his crowd and Julian, the outsider who comes along to light up his life. The beauty of this film is its artistic economy. Unlike the long and embellished Hollywood novel, this is a poem in which every spare word and action communicates much more than pages of explanatory chat.
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- dplante2002
- Apr 2, 2005
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- $3,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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