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  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Bangor Films
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Bangor Films
  • 1 h 44 m
Vacationland

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 an...

Directed By: Todd Verow

Written By: Jim Dwyer, Todd Verow

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Bangor Films
  • 1 h 44 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Bangor Films
  • 1 h 44 m

Vacationland

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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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 an...

Directed By: Todd Verow

Written By: Jim Dwyer, Todd Verow

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Marred by sluggish script and Verow's inability to either direct actors or cast ones whose thesping ability matches their good looks.
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Todd Verow's overstuffed Vacationland promises more than it delivers in just about every sense.
By Joshua Land FULL REVIEW
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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.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
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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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The autobiographical script meanders and the acting never solidifies. Besides, the leads look too old to be in high school - maybe even college.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Bangor Films
Release Date Aug 2, 2006
Duration 1 h 44 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.bangorfilms.com/vacationland
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