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      Burning Blue

      R Released Jun 6, 2014 1h 44m Drama LGBTQ+ List
      25% 12 Reviews Tomatometer 53% 250+ Ratings Audience Score An investigation into a series of fatal accidents leads to the exposure of a clandestine affair between two Navy pilots (Trent Ford, Rob Mayes). Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Jun 29 Buy Now

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      Daniel O good movie and great drama Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 06/22/23 Full Review g k This movie is decent. It invokes emotions that I experienced while serving. The statements at the end shed light on just how difficult it was to serve under this policy and not the movie. The movie lacks substance and is in no way comparable to Brokeback Mountain. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review wenlong t This movie is pretty similar to Brokeback Mountain, looks like they absorbed a lot from the old movie. But this one is still touching and hurt anyway... Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Saw this play in NYC off-Broadway. It’s was terrible then and somehow this movie is even worse. Good to see DMW Greer gave up the business after this. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/24/21 Full Review richard r Loved this movie for what it was, the two leads looked like they were genuinely in love. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member It is a well known fact American intelligence suffered in the post 9/11 days because we had virtually no military personnel who could understand the languages spoken by the people living in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. This was a critical chink in our armor and only existed because all the American military officers able to translate these languages into English had been fired because of the witch hunts going on in the military -- even though this was against the law -- and we, as a country, lost many battles and many human lives because we could not predict with accuracy what the enemy was doing. All the relevant translators had been hounded out of the military under these witch hunts. Some of them were gay and some were not. None of this had anything to do with being an American or serving in the Armed Forces. Yet someone's dad, brother, son, nephew or friend lies dead because of the conservative witch hunts against the "real enemy" of the nation -- gay people. Had these witch hunts been stopped, as required by law, thousands of young men in the armed forces would still be alive. But they died for someone else's political beliefs. No one was ever punished for the mass murders of American soldiers by American personnel, and conservative "witch hunts" are more brazen than ever. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Scott Foundas Variety Top guns in love struggle against institutional homophobia in a tone deaf melodrama well past its sell-by date. Jun 9, 2014 Full Review Odie Henderson RogerEbert.com This shockingly amateurish film evokes memories of "Making Love," the Arthur Hiller film about a married man coming to terms with his homosexuality. Rated: 1/4 Jun 6, 2014 Full Review Anita Gates New York Times The script, by Mr. Greer and Helene Kvale, rolls along with lifeless, profoundly unimaginative dialogue ... Jun 5, 2014 Full Review Alexander Ryll Gay Essential The 2013 indie film attempts to accurately document the cruel code of conduct regarding homosexual men in the military, but ends up conveying only a caricatural depiction of this far-reaching social issue. Rated: 6 Nov 3, 2018 Full Review Richard Knight Windy City Times Describing Burning Blue as a gay variation on Top Gun with heart and soul ( and one with more than a dash of Brokeback Mountain thrown in for good measure ) just about sums up its appeal perfectly. Jun 28, 2014 Full Review Glenn Dunks Glenn Dunks Viewing now in the clear light of a post-DADT world and the grand-standing dialogue of [Director] Greer and co-writer Helene Kvale come off as weightless, drooping under the clichs and perceived inherent power of its story... Rated: C Jun 10, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis An investigation into a series of fatal accidents leads to the exposure of a clandestine affair between two Navy pilots (Trent Ford, Rob Mayes).
      Director
      DMW Greer
      Producer
      John Hadity, Mike Harrop, Sig De Miguel, Stephen Vincent
      Screenwriter
      DMW Greer, Helene Kvale
      Distributor
      Lionsgate Films
      Production Co
      Articulated Pictures
      Rating
      R (Graphic Nudity|Some Sexual Content|Language)
      Genre
      Drama, LGBTQ+
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jun 6, 2014, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Sep 11, 2015
      Runtime
      1h 44m
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