Big Eden
starring: Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay, Louise Fletcher, George Coe
directed by: Thomas Bezucha
directed by: Thomas Bezucha
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Back home henry confronts his unrequited passion for his high school best friend and his feelings about being gay in a small town. As henry works through his emotions the townspeople quietly conspire to help him along until henry realizes new possibilties for both friendship and romance.Studio: Wolfe VideoRelease Date: 04/30/2002Run time: 117 minutesRating: Pg13
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Big Eden has won the audience awards at just about every gay and lesbian film festival there is. Henry (Arye Gross) is an artist living in New York but still carrying a torch for the guy he had a crush on in high school.When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry returns to his Montana hometown, Big Eden, where he rediscovers friends he hasn't seen in years. His high school crush has since married, had children, and divorced--and seems ready to take some very different steps with his life. Big Eden is one of those implausibly tolerant towns where lesbians kiss each other in public and old coots in cowboy hats try to play matchmaker with bashful queers. Still, it's this sweet warmth in Big Eden that has made it a festival crowd-pleaser. --Bret Fetzer
Back home henry confronts his unrequited passion for his high school best friend and his feelings about being gay in a small town. As henry works through his emotions the townspeople quietly conspire to help him along until henry realizes new possibilties for both friendship and romance.Studio: Wolfe VideoRelease Date: 04/30/2002Run time: 117 minutesRating: Pg13
Amazon.com:
Big Eden has won the audience awards at just about every gay and lesbian film festival there is. Henry (Arye Gross) is an artist living in New York but still carrying a torch for the guy he had a crush on in high school.When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry returns to his Montana hometown, Big Eden, where he rediscovers friends he hasn't seen in years. His high school crush has since married, had children, and divorced--and seems ready to take some very different steps with his life. Big Eden is one of those implausibly tolerant towns where lesbians kiss each other in public and old coots in cowboy hats try to play matchmaker with bashful queers. Still, it's this sweet warmth in Big Eden that has made it a festival crowd-pleaser. --Bret Fetzer
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- For lovers and romantics of all ages
Big Eden is a romantic hope and fantasy for beautiful souls that enshrouds you within a gentle cocoon from the opening moments and slowly transforms you as it unfolds.
Yes, you do realize it is make-believe, but the performances, what performances. You are drawn inside their story in spite, no make that because, of yourself and your experiences. The writing is good, though a bit one-dimensional, yet it is the actors, their chemistry and abilities which shine here. It is they, the directing ... Read More
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- Sweet, entertaining
"Big Eden" is a sweet film which takes place in the beautiful mountains of western Montana. The scenery is perhaps the best part of the film. The characters (portrayed by actors in what seems like a reunion of actors who played in past "Golden Girls" episodes) are also very likeable, which makes the film easy to watch despite the story being a bit disjointed. I'm guessing the story is a semi-autobiographical tale by the filmmaker. I only wished he had been clearer in the plot. I really had no idea who was ... Read More
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- Big
Saw movie on Logo and desired to have it in my library. A very moving gay movie and the out come was a tear jerker. Acting was superb as were the actors.
Rating: - Great story and acting; slight letdown at the end
SPOILERS AHEAD!
This is a nice surprise of a movie--heartfelt without being smarmy, intelligent, literate, witty, quirky, and shot in a lovely wooded area.It's about a man in New York who comes back to his native Montana to care for his ailing grandfather.The man is also gay but unattached, though an old flame tries to get together with him again.A more fascinating character is called Pike (Eric Schweig), a Native American who runs the general store but is scared of what he ... Read More
Rating: 
- Well beyond the limits of credulity
I'm not sure what the intentions of the film maker were but clearly we were supposed to have our heartstrings touched by the happy ending.As others have noted,the initial premise of a NYC gay artist returning to his small town home might have provided interesting dynamics and conflicts to be explored, but instead the story revolves around the slapstick caricature of an improbable Montana town where everyone is not only gay-friendly, but intimately involved in getting the queers together, even though the ... Read More
- For lovers and romantics of all agesBig Eden is a romantic hope and fantasy for beautiful souls that enshrouds you within a gentle cocoon from the opening moments and slowly transforms you as it unfolds.
Yes, you do realize it is make-believe, but the performances, what performances. You are drawn inside their story in spite, no make that because, of yourself and your experiences. The writing is good, though a bit one-dimensional, yet it is the actors, their chemistry and abilities which shine here. It is they, the directing ... Read More
- Sweet, entertaining"Big Eden" is a sweet film which takes place in the beautiful mountains of western Montana. The scenery is perhaps the best part of the film. The characters (portrayed by actors in what seems like a reunion of actors who played in past "Golden Girls" episodes) are also very likeable, which makes the film easy to watch despite the story being a bit disjointed. I'm guessing the story is a semi-autobiographical tale by the filmmaker. I only wished he had been clearer in the plot. I really had no idea who was ... Read More
- BigSaw movie on Logo and desired to have it in my library. A very moving gay movie and the out come was a tear jerker. Acting was superb as were the actors.
- Great story and acting; slight letdown at the endSPOILERS AHEAD!
This is a nice surprise of a movie--heartfelt without being smarmy, intelligent, literate, witty, quirky, and shot in a lovely wooded area.It's about a man in New York who comes back to his native Montana to care for his ailing grandfather.The man is also gay but unattached, though an old flame tries to get together with him again.A more fascinating character is called Pike (Eric Schweig), a Native American who runs the general store but is scared of what he ... Read More
- Well beyond the limits of credulityI'm not sure what the intentions of the film maker were but clearly we were supposed to have our heartstrings touched by the happy ending.As others have noted,the initial premise of a NYC gay artist returning to his small town home might have provided interesting dynamics and conflicts to be explored, but instead the story revolves around the slapstick caricature of an improbable Montana town where everyone is not only gay-friendly, but intimately involved in getting the queers together, even though the ... Read More
