Dorian Blues (2005)
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Critic Consensus: Dorian Blues has a familiar outline, but it's filled in with enough sharp writing and solid performances to forgive the sense of déjà vu.
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Cast
as Dorian Lagatos
as Tom Lagatos
as Maria Lagatos
as Nicky Lagatos
as Tiffany
as Andrew
as Spooky
as Therapist
as Ellie
as Ben
as Social Worker
as Ben's Father
as Muscles
as Locker Bully
as Mrs. Polk
as Ben's Mother
Critic Reviews for Dorian Blues
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[Writer-director] Bardwell offers a cheerful, if sometimes strenuously earnest, take on a subject that seems overdue for a lighthearted touch.
Dorian Blues has wit, humor, good performances, and clever technique that catapults the film into the front ranks of coming-out movies.
Dorian Blues makes me yearn for the day that audiences have become so comfortable enough with this subgenre that a clever director can make a spoof in which many if not all of the conventions get lampooned.
Rarely feels fresh. It's special, but in an after-school sort of way.
While Bardwell's screenplay wobbles somewhat in tone, it displays enough wit and charm to compensate for its lack of polish.
The linchpin relationship is the underlying deep bond between the two brothers, and the scenes between McMillian and Coco are well written and equally well played.
Audience Reviews for Dorian Blues
Low-budget with decent acting and a pleasant script. It's nice that a light hand was applied to a film that could have been overwrought.
Super Reviewer
Having recently watched what amounts to a seemingly endless parade of terrible excuses for GLBT Cinema, finally I have found a gem again and had my faith restored. Dorian Blues has obviously been made on the cheap but the incisive, relevant and realistic writing and winning lead performance (Michael McMillian) help sell this touching film. Dorian's family is fairly typical in terms of this kind of film but the interactions between him and his elder brother and his complicated relationship with his father are deftly played and the confrontation at the end of the film by his friends and his mother both surprises and feels utterly accurate and doubly poignant for that. Dorian himself is a fantastic character - quick witted but not selfish with it, he is friendly, charming, slightly goofy but with an undercurrent of quiet rage that he does not have an outlet for. This is a quietly brilliant film.
Super Reviewer
This movie was such a pleasure for me because I saw a lot of personal experience parallels. I had no brother but the story is made so much more fun because of the brother. Fun movie!
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