Mango Kiss (2004)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Sascha Rice

Writers:

Sarah Brown (writer)
Sascha Rice (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Romance

Tagline:

A fruity kind of love.

Plot:

"Mango Kiss" is a story about Lou whose world turns upside-down when she falls in love with her best friend Sassafras...

Plot Keywords:

Role Playing | Love | Mother Daughter Relationship | Nudity | Lesbian Relationship

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Danièle Ferraro	...	Sassafras
Michelle Wolff	...	Lou
Sally Kirkland	...	Emilia
Dru Mouser	...	Leslie
Tina Marie Murray	...	Chelsea Chuwawa
Shannon Rossiter	...	Micky
Joe Mellis	...	Kaz
Malia Spanyol	...	Bridget
Windy Morgan Bunts	...	Ginny
Dominique Zeltzman	...	Sonya
Lena Zee	...	Karla
Alicia D. Simmons	...	Boss Daddy (as Alicia Simmons)
Laura Baca	...	Allison
Max Miller	...	Val
Walter Barry	...	Mr. Fuchsia

Also Known As:

Mango Me

Runtime:

USA:84 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:M

Quotes:

Kaz: You know the old joke about the difference between lesbian dating and gay boy dating?
Sassafras: What do gay boys bring on the second date?
Kaz: What second date?
Emilia: What do lesbians bring on the second date?
Lou, Sassafras, Kaz: The U-Haul.

Worst movie I have ever seen

I wish I could give this movie a zero, or even lower, because sadly that's what it deserves. I honestly never walk out of a movie, but this one was so dreadfully awful that I couldn't stand another minute of it. Please,please, please- for the sake of mankind- skip this movie. If you want a hot lesbian movie that you can really delve into, this isn't it.

It has unattractive, unappealing leads, choppy structure, ridiculous dialog, and it is absolutely unconvincing in every imaginable way. On an absolutely basic level, it fails to entertain. Everything about "Mango Kiss" is so stagey, it is WORSE than any student film I have seen.

As if that weren't enough, the entire movie relies on constant (and I mean CONSTANT) voice over narration. The script writer may as well have written a novel, because they insisted on TELLING everything, instead of SHOWING it. We are just supposed to assume that Lou and Sassafras are the best of friends and have a special connection, even though there is no character development to illustrate this. Also, this film continues to introduce to new characters after the first five minutes, and not in a natural way, but in a freeze-frame of the characters with their name written over the screen. There is no introduction, no development of any of the characters. We don't really get to know any of them.

This is the most amateur movie I have ever seen.

I am a gay woman, who watched this film with my roommate (another gay woman) and we both found this movie to be a depressing representation of queer cinema. I am beginning to think that lesbian and gay movies are a lot like Christian rock - it doesn't matter how atrocious it is, people will still flock to it, and champion it, no matter how poor the quality is. Please don't rent this!! Instead, let's encourage the production of QUALITY gay and lesbian movies by renting "But I'm a Cheerleader" or "Fire" or "Heavenly Creatures", instead of swallowing whatever mindless tripe they aim at the gay community (i.e. Queer as Folk).