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  • 2014
  • TV-MA
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2014
  • TV-MA
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary In the free-spirited San Francisco of 1985, Frankie (Scott Marlowe) confronts the challenges of being an understudy in a modern dance company where he's taunted to "dance like a man!" Frankie embarks on a budding relationship with Todd (Matthew Risch), a veteran dancer in the same company and the bad boy to Frankie's innocent. As Frank...

Directed By: Chris Mason Johnson

Written By: Chris Mason Johnson

  • 2014
  • TV-MA
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2014
  • TV-MA
  • Wolfe Releasing
  • 1 h 29 m

Test

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
70
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary In the free-spirited San Francisco of 1985, Frankie (Scott Marlowe) confronts the challenges of being an understudy in a modern dance company where he's taunted to "dance like a man!" Frankie embarks on a budding relationship with Todd (Matthew Risch), a veteran dancer in the same company and the bad boy to Frankie's innocent. As Frank...

Directed By: Chris Mason Johnson

Written By: Chris Mason Johnson

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100
Jun 12, 2014
As Frankie, Mr. Marlowe delivers a quiet, moving performance of such subtlety and truthfulness that you almost feel that you are living his life.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
75
Jun 9, 2014
Adept as both timely character study and epochal drama, Test wonderfully manages fully formed humanism without sentimentality.
By Clayton Dillard FULL REVIEW

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17% Negative
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70
Jun 12, 2014
When Frankie, an understudy in a small dance company, is given his chance to perform, he, and Test itself, come to life.
By Chuck Wilson FULL REVIEW
70
Jun 5, 2014
Writer-director Chris Mason Johnson's important, assured drama best succeeds as a snapshot of a moment in time when every gay man is forced to decide how AIDS will change his life.
By Inkoo Kang FULL REVIEW
67
Jun 16, 2014
Clumsy metaphors and contrived attempts to articulate Frankie’s fears—especially as he awaits the results of the titular test—diminish the emotional authenticity engendered by Daniel Marks’ hyper-real cinematography and the film’s incisively curated soundtrack.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
60
Jun 5, 2014
Test is a slow burn that builds to an impressive end, although the rest of film is in need of that same kind of forward-driving energy.
By Kate Erbland FULL REVIEW
40
Jun 12, 2014
The AIDS scare remains as much window dressing as do other period details such as rotary phones and cassette tapes. Test seems to be about dance above all, with choreographed montages filling the bulk of its running time.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Serious Productions, Gloss Studio, San Francisco Film Society, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Horizons Foundation, San Francisco Film Commission, RIchard and Elizabeth Fullerton Family Found., Bob Ross
Release Date Jun 6, 2014
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating TV-MA
Genres
Tagline Dance like a man. San Francisco. 1985.
Website http://www.testthefilm.com/#!blog/cigu
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Awards

L.A. Outfest
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Seattle International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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