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Overview

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Director:
Ana Kokkinos
Writers:
Andrew Bovell (written by)
Ana Kokkinos (writer)
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Release Date:
13 August 1998 (Australia) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
full on - all night - come on
Plot:
A 19 year old Greek youth struggles with his sexual identity and has several homosexual and a clumsy heterosexual encounters. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
9 wins & 15 nominations more
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(49 articles)
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Alex Dimitriades ... Ari
Paul Capsis ... Johnny

Julian Garner ... Sean
Elena Mandalis ... Betty
Tony Nikolakopoulos ... Dimitri
Damien Fotiou ... Joe
Eugenia Fragos ... Sophia
Dora Kaskanis ... Dina
María Mercedes ... Tasia
Alex Papps ... Peter
Vassili Zappa ... Vassili
Andrea Mandalis ... Alex
Chris Kaglaros ... Groom
Ourania Sideropoulos ... Bride
Anthony Lyritzis ... Boy in Car
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Additional Details

Runtime:
104 min
Country:
Australia
Language:
English | Greek
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital

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Continuity: In a sex scene between Aria and Dina, the actress' sweater is buttoned closed but her body double's sweater is fully open. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Another Gay Movie (2006) more
Soundtrack:
Mi mou thimonis matia mou more

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5 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Heads up, 27 February 2005
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Author: flingebunt from Harbin, China

When the booked "Loaded" was released the author explained that the reason he wrote the book was that there were already enough gay friendly movies and books out there to allow him to write an honest portrayal of gay life. It is not negative, it is simply honest.

Ari (played by the Hunk of Australian TV and movies Alex Dimitriades) is a young Greek man who is gay but is definitely not going to come out of the closet.

He desires nothing more than to have a girlfriend, a family and be normal. But he knows he can not.

So we follow on day in his life. It starts with him masturbating in the house he slept the night. He then faces a day of numerous challenges.

Losing his money during a gay encounter (of the wink wink, nod nod, go into the back alley for a head-job type encounter). Getting the money so he can buy drugs, more sex, more drugs, more sex, drugs (surely it would fall off with that much use), police harassment.

But there are ways out. He can be a gay guy and have a loving open gay relationship, he can marry a lesbian and pretend to be straight, he can even go to the extreme and be a drag queen or he can stay the way he is.

This movie is packed with messages. Every scene has a meaning and as a result it is often considered pretentious.

It is a movie about being gay and the issues with it. What makes it different is it doesn't spend the whole movie agonizing over the issues and boring the audience stupid, instead it bombards you with them leaving your head spinning by the time you leave the cinema.

Oh...and if you love big dark skinned, dark haired Greek guys you will love this movie.

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