Retake

Released Jan 6, 2017

1h 38m

Drama

Romance

LGBTQ+

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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Brilliantly acted - erotically charged despair with tinges of hope. Lurve Tuc Watkins.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/20/23

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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

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Nick Corporon

Director

Tuc Watkins

Jonathan

Devon Graye

Evan

Derek Phillips

James

Kit Williamson

Scotty

Andrew Asper

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

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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

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James Wegg

JWR

You still can't go back again

Rated: 3.5/5

Jan 18, 2017

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Brandon Judell

Huffington Post

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

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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
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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