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To me, watching this movie is like watching a friend coming out on the screen…. It’s believable and it’s painful because of that. If I considered The Line of Beauty to be an excellent movie that speaks a broader “gay experience”, then Edge of Seventeen is a film that speaks to me at a more intimate level.br /br /Now here’s the review of the movie. The movie is about a guy called Eric (played by Chris Stafford) who is in a sexual confusion which eventually hurt people who care about him and foremost, himself. Despite growing up in the 90’s, I think many of the growing pain of a homosexual man is still relevant (but given the feedback from some reviews, apparently kids from 2000’s aren’t going through the same sort of pain as before). Eric has gone through a lot of stuff I can relate to: expressing himself through fashion and hairdo, feeling lost, enduring indignation with silence (what else could you do?), looking for love from both genders (but only going back to feel lost again). The movie nailed every important subjects in the process of coming to term of finding self.br /br /To those who couldn’t find the point of the movie, let me offer this: not everyone can go to one of his parents and just say “Mom, I’m gay” without a long process in between. I don’t see the movie as a gay man trying to find love kind of movie, but a movie about a man’s process of finding the real him. Things like experimenting on hair style, putting on make up, going to gay bar, sleeping with guys, sleeping with his best female friend (!)…, etc., were all small details that eventually built up to the final conclusion.br /br /I personally feel The Edge of Seventeen to be a very frank story that deserves to be noticed, but Strand Releasing (the publisher of this DVD) did a terrible job at market placement, I think. I avoided this film because I had judged the movie by its cover…. However, it turned out to be much better than expected. Like another reviewer mentioned, one may think this is an uplifting movie, but it’s not…. I am guessing Strand probably believed marketing the movie this way may boost sale, but it pleases no one. Honesty sells. This is not a pastel colored love story, but a brutally honest coming out story, so why disappoint someone who was looking for a Friday fun and turn someone who was looking for a serious love story? Target the customer correctly, please. br /br /To Strand’s credit, they generally publish good quality movies. This and The Mudge Boy both offer stellar acting performance with strong scripts. Chris Stafford should win an award for his role. The script is believable and honest. I didn’t expect a good movie when I first started, but it ended up making me insomniac that night because it reached that deep pocket of my life that I thought I had long forgotten.br /br /Rated E for Essential.
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Set in 1984 in Sandusky, Ohio, “Edge of Seventeen” follows the coming-out of a naive 17-year-old teenager at exactly the moment when gender-bending pop stars like Boy George and Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics were flaunting androgynous images. As the youth, played with a heartbreaking sweetness by Chris Stafford, goes through his first rites of gay passage (after being callously used by the slightly older boy who brings him out, he tries to retreat to heterosexuality with his closest female friend) he emerges as a poignant gay everyman. Lea DeLaria is wonderful as his butch lesbian boss at the amusement park restaurant where he meets his first boyfriend.
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Soundtrack includes some of the best songs of the eighties – D. Gervasi – New York
I liked the movie. I thought it was movingly sincere and beautifully sullen. The soundtrack is great and includes some of the best songs of the eighties. It brought back a lot of memories. I was young. As I entered my teens, this music was still very popular.br /br /Unfortunately, through the early nineties, alternative, pop and grunge took precedence on the radio, at least in NYC. br /br /Many of these artists had a couple of hits throughout the eighties. That can’t dismiss their importance. These are great songs. br /
Edge of my seat!!!! – J. Wilson – Ohio
This was a very good movie, I have seen all of writer/producer Todd Stephen’s films, and I seen them in the opposite order they were made. I seen Another Gay Movie, Gypsy 83, and then Edge of 17. I have to say this film left me wanting to see more and at the end if it would have just been 20 minutes longer, but even if it were i’d probably still say if it had been longer. It is one of those movies you hate to see end, also the ending itself was one of those that you have to sort of quess what you think may happen. I hope that writer todd stephens gets back to writing more movies like this. It had a great cast… love Andersen Gabrych, and Chris Stafford. Hope to see them in another one of stephens films. Overall the film is worth watching. people my age may not like the music becasue it was made to be in the 80’s. However, the time may be different but the theme is still the same.
Simply wonderfu as well as insightful!!!! – Tyrell C. Anderson – Tyrellwhit
This movie, I’m sure, was very beneficial and insightful to MANY gays coming out in 1987. This movie also proves that there are two main types of gays and it is really difficult, painful, complex and unnerving when those two types of gays come together; moreover, the harsh reality of a family’s typical reaction–independent of how a gay may be categorized–in particular, the mother. Given that this movie achieves a wonderful depiction of the truths of the gay community, this movie is still very relevant today. I was not conscious of the fact that this movie was done more than 20 years ago…well, I must admit, you can’t really be oblivious to Eric’s Boy George-like, 80’s punk look! lol 
Albeit, this is the qunitessential “coming out” movie. This movie does a very nice job of portraying the typical struggles of a gay guy in Eric’s situation without over-indulging in some of the more profound aspects of the story; ergo, a drawn-out, almost unbelievable film. It also, I believe, evokes thoughts for young gays that are [hopefully] conducive to the establishment of tenets of the gay community. Some examples of these tenets would be: not to be promiscuous (as it is asinine and totally unsafe), don’t judge others–as you don’t want anyone judging you, never love under any pretense–thus it isn’t love in the first place, accept change–you must eventually do this if you are to be comfortable and strong in being gay. Suffice it to say, I adored–no, simply TREASURE this film!!
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