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  • 1997
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 1997
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary Lincoln, who's not yet 18, leads a straight life most of the time: he has a girl friend, goes to dances, jokes with guys. But he also has a secret life, in which he's drawn to dark places where he has sex with men he doesn't know. One night, while visiting a gay video arcade, he connects with John, a Vietnamese-born gay man, in his 20s p...

Directed By: Ira Sachs

Written By: Ira Sachs

  • 1997
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 1997
  • Unrated
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 25 m

The Delta

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Lincoln, who's not yet 18, leads a straight life most of the time: he has a girl friend, goes to dances, jokes with guys. But he also has a secret life, in which he's drawn to dark places where he has sex with men he doesn't know. One night, while visiting a gay video arcade, he connects with John, a Vietnamese-born gay man, in his 20s p...

Directed By: Ira Sachs

Written By: Ira Sachs

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
60
44% Positive
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44% Mixed
4 Reviews
11% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews
60
44% Positive
4 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
11% Negative
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90
Sachs' ability to draw deeply affecting, completely open and unself-conscious performances from Chan and Gray and other nonprofessionals as well is most impressive and highly effective. Working with masterly New York cinematographer Benjamin P. Speth, Sachs has created in The Delta an achingly poignant portrait of alienation and longing so evocative that it is poetic in its impact. [15 Aug 1997, p.F4]
By Kevin Thomas FULL REVIEW
90
Stylistically captivating, subtly nuanced, and structurally unpredictable.
By Jonathan Rosenbaum FULL REVIEW
75
This moody film, set in muggy Memphis, exudes a dangerous veracity that's both exciting and poisonous.
By Peter Stack FULL REVIEW
50
While the structure of The Delta—sort of a tag-team narrative that begins with Gray and switches to Chan halfway through—is an intriguing touch, this gritty film never follows through on the issues it raises.
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50
On a more basic level, I simply found it so hard to penetrate the two main characters' cauterized psyches that, in the end, I hardly gave a damn what happened to them.
By Russell Smith FULL REVIEW
50
Sachs commits a major error by deciding to center on Lincoln’s character, for John is a far more interesting, complex and disturbing personality.
By Emanuel Levy FULL REVIEW
25
The movie then becomes John's story, making an unbelievable leap of psychodrama to do so.
By Jami Bernard FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Charlie Guidance Productions
Release Date Aug 15, 1997
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline The distance between two men is...
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Awards

L.A. Outfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Gotham Awards
• 1 Nomination

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