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Retake

Play trailer 1:13 Poster for Retake Released Jan 6, 2017 1h 38m Drama Romance LGBTQ+ Play Trailer Watchlist
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A businessman pays a street hustler a large sum to go on a road trip to the Grand Canyon and pretend to be someone named Brandon.
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Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times A potentially precious and maudlin conceit gets an absorbing and intriguing treatment in "Retake," an impressive road drama about a middle-aged gay man who hires a young hustler to join him on a life-changing ride to the Grand Canyon. Jan 5, 2017 Full Review Alexander Ryll Gay Essential Nick Corporon delivers a promising feature film debut in Retake, an inspired road trip drama with enough quirks and twists to keep audiences enthralled until the credit roll. Sep 15, 2019 Full Review Brandon Judell HuffPost A superb film for depressives seeking images of themselves on-screen . . . an interesting addition to the representation of male prostitution in film, one that makes Midnight Cowboy seem like a Marx Brothers offering. Jan 16, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I loved it. There were times that it had me on the edge of my seat in fear that one of the main characters was going to "lose it", and that it would turn violent; but it never did and the ending kind of sad but beautiful. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is mostly good. Could have been better. There's a little bit of 'crazy' happening here. A hooker and a john go on a road trip. Makes for a good premise. There's a little Pretty Woman mixed with some Groundhog Day mixed with some American Psycho. There's so much going on mentally and emotionally but just as you start getting the feelz ,it all gets cut short or stunted so that you can't really feel too much for either of these guys. All in all, not a bad flick. Would make a great "What Not To Do" training video, though, if you're planning on going into the hustler business. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member Many years ago a well-acted "alternative lifetstyle" movie with a great score, called Making Love, suffered from the bias of the day, as mainstream audiences were not only sparse, but in far too great a number walked out of the theater with a look of "yuk" or an "ewwww" when the scenes showed gay intimacy or suggestions of gay sex. The subject matter and delicately tastefully presented gay intimacy in this movie, also quite well-acted and executed, are likely to hold back its commercial success. Perhaps audiences wont walk out in this politically correct day and age, at least in big cities where it might be shown, but I suspect the public at large is still not quite fully ready for such topics or scenes. I dearly hope I am wrong, because RETAKE is so well paced and acted and filmed and presented in just a "good movie" sense, it would be a shame to miss it for any reason at all. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review mike m Contrived was how I was feeling about this film while I was watching then about midway through I started caring about the characters and their relationship or lack therefore. And by the end I was involved and really affected by it. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Brilliantly acted - erotically charged despair with tinges of hope. Lurve Tuc Watkins. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member Really enjoyed it. I thought the ending was wrong - but the story is strong Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A businessman pays a street hustler a large sum to go on a road trip to the Grand Canyon and pretend to be someone named Brandon.
Director
Nick Corporon
Producer
Nick Corporon, Collin Brazie, Sean Mandell
Screenwriter
Nick Corporon
Distributor
Breaking Glass Pictures
Production Co
Closing Time Productions
Genre
Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 6, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 3, 2017
Runtime
1h 38m
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