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Vacationland
  • Release Date: Aug 2, 2006
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  • Summary: Life in picturesque Bangor, Maine, is complicated for Joe, a blisteringly sexy high school senior. Living with his single mother and older sister in a rough housing project, Joe takes a job as a live-in model for Victor, an artist, to save money for art school. While Joe dreams of leaving town, his friend Andrew, a hunky football star and avid shoplifter, is going nowhere. Joe and Andrew, stealing moments here and there from time with their girlfriends, begin to fall in love. When they encounter a shady figure from Joe's past at a local gay bar, the youths decide they must exact revenge so Joe may finally feel free to leave Bangor. This latest unflinching work from Todd Verow, semi-autobiographical and deeply personal, questions which points in a person's history will form facets of his identity. (Two Boots Pioneer Theater)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 0 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 5
  3. Negative: 3 out of 5
  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Leslie Felperin
    50
    Marred by sluggish script and Verow's inability to either direct actors or cast ones whose thesping ability matches their good looks.
  2. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    38
    Though Verow attended the American Film Institute and has made more than a dozen shorts and features since 1994, his low-budget gay-themed films are characterized by phenomenal indifference to framing, sound quality and performance. If his relentless amateurishness is deliberate, it's self-defeating; if not, it's inexplicable: Most people who do anything for more than a decade get better at it.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Nathan Lee
    30
    A generic coming-of-age movie whose arrival on the scene suggests that the audience for gay indie clunkers is inexhaustible.

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  1. PeterM.
    0
    Vacationland is bad, to be very very blunt. Almost every aspect of the movie is done in a way that can not even be called amateur, it's below what one would expect from an amateur. With heavy revision and editing to the script to make the plot more stable and coherent, a new approach to cinematography (meaning far less close-ups of the actors' faces), and acting lessons for the cast it could be turned into an enjoyable movie. The movie as it is now is laughable at best and would need alot of work to be made better.… Expand
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