An adaptation from a series of short stories by Canadian cult favorite Bruce La Bruce, this seriocomic coming-of-age story stars Andre Noble as Cliff, a teenager growing up in Toronto in the 1980s. Whilst he is very much aware that he is gay and hungers for sex, he still remains a virgin. On his 18h birthday, his free-thinking and liberated mother, Madge (Marnie McPhail), pours him a stiff drink, offers him a reefer, and politely but firmly tells him to go downtown and have some fun. As Cliff is so eager to lose his virginity, he followed his mother’s advice and immediately spots Butch (Brendan Fehr), a good-looking guy in his early twenties who makes his living as a male prostitute whilst he is pissing in an abandoned property. Cliff instantly gets infatuated with Butch whilst Butch seems fond of Cliff. They clicked and become very close friends...
22 August 2008
Sugar (2004)
An adaptation from a series of short stories by Canadian cult favorite Bruce La Bruce, this seriocomic coming-of-age story stars Andre Noble as Cliff, a teenager growing up in Toronto in the 1980s. Whilst he is very much aware that he is gay and hungers for sex, he still remains a virgin. On his 18h birthday, his free-thinking and liberated mother, Madge (Marnie McPhail), pours him a stiff drink, offers him a reefer, and politely but firmly tells him to go downtown and have some fun. As Cliff is so eager to lose his virginity, he followed his mother’s advice and immediately spots Butch (Brendan Fehr), a good-looking guy in his early twenties who makes his living as a male prostitute whilst he is pissing in an abandoned property. Cliff instantly gets infatuated with Butch whilst Butch seems fond of Cliff. They clicked and become very close friends...