It helps that our leads makes such indelible impressions with their unstudied performances, and that there is a cast of burnished supporting players (Mary Kay Place and Jacqueline Bisset among them), to add some sleek polish to the earnest proceedings. Strong performances from the cast makes up for the brief moments that the plot falters. The acting is brilliant and the chemistry between all the characters very believeable. A perfect mix of drama, romance, and comedy. Latter Days (2011) This is a must see movie. Sure, there are some coincidences in the plot that strain credulity, but if you go with a synchronicity point of view, as in fate or heaven or whatever, it’s not entirely insurmountable. Best 3D Blu Ray Movies Wednesday, January 22, 2014. There’s fallout of the most unexpected nature as things change drastically and irrevocably for both of them and for all those in their orbit This preening narcissist suddenly becomes introspective, or at least as introspective as a life of superficiality allows him. For some reason, instead of caring about the bet he made with his waitstaff co-workers about being able to nail Aaron, Christian actually cares what Aaron thinks about him as person, not as a sex object. He does it so neatly, so sincerely, that for Christian it is a shock to the system on a par with a lightning strike. No he resists when he realizes how shallow Christian is, for whom sex is a way to kill time. Aaron neatly turns the tables, in that decisive and inevitable moment, when Christian is offering a walk on the wild side, and Aaron is tempted, yet resists, not because sex is wrong outside of marriage, or because gay sex is a one-way ticket to damnation. Ramsey), the gay stud next door, one things leads to another and, well, I think we all know where it’s going.Īnd this is where LATTER DAYS rises above the hackneyed cliché of innocence lost and sexual discovery and a happily ever after of sensual delights. So when he meets the ironically monikered Christian (the hunkolicious Wesley A. He’s a thoughtful guy with the soul of a poet, the face of a farmboy, and an attraction for his own sex that will only lead to trouble in La La Land, which is where he’s sent for his Mormon missionary work. He’s the type who sees the human heart not so much beating, as dancing as it keeps us tethered to this planet and this life. He didn’t get that from his Mormon upbringing, but he did get that enormous guilt trip from it. Our case in point is Aaron (a strikingly wholesome Steve Sandvoss).