A gripping scene revealing what it was like to be discovered as "different" in 1950's America. Featuring Alexis Arquette as Georgette and Rutanya Alda ("Carol Ann" from MOMMIE DEAREST.
ITS HEARTBREAKING TO KNOW HOW SHE SUFFERED FROM HIV WHEN SHE DIED,SEEING THIS AGAIN AFTER ALL OF THESE YEARS MAKES ME MISS HER AND HER ACTING CAREER ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO LIVE A HAPPY LIFE GOD BLESS YOU YOU'LL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN ALEXIS ARQUETTE❤😢
i remember watching this movie when i was younger. Always tear up when the young man tries to rescue Tralala from the gang rape at the end of the movie. For a movie made in 1989 it was pretty ballsy.
I was amazed at Alexis's long body of work. Glad the family chose not to disclose the cause, would've taken away from Alexis's accomplishments. My condolences to the Arquettes. One of the few of Hollywood's royalty and they should be treated as such.....
What the fuck is "underrated" about this film? One of the best films of it's time. I swear to Christ, I'm sick of the word "underrated" so many people use it unnecessarily.
Totally underrated! One of the best films of 89 and a great book by Herbert Selby! Unfortunately it was too much for some people to handle with it's gritty themes, drug use and sexual proclivities.. So many film lovers are unaware of this dark masterpiece, even if they've experienced Selby's 'Requiem for a Dream'.
For some reason this film is hard to find on dvd but if you can see it its amazing the acting from an amazing cast is superb, easy a lost classic, the only reason i can see that the fim isn't as known as it is and should be is that it is Dark as hell and deals with very strong subjects.
I read the book not long before it was released as a movie, very dark, harder to read than the film is to watch. I'm sure I've still got the DVD kicking around the house somewhere.
Amazing film and hard to find. I remember this scene and it was gritty. I always felt bad for this guy and it must have been horrible to live that way then.
I'll take your word for it about the book, and thank you for that info. But this is actually a really CRUEL statement to dismiss this CLASSIC film because it didn't match the book. This is one of the great underrated films that the 1980's produced.
They tried, god knows, but this was a terrible adaptation of a great book that simply had too much that couldn't be filmed. The director was German and had no feel for the fifties period in America. He sentimentalized shamelessly.
