Edge Of Seventeen (1998)
Set in 1984 in Sandusky, Ohio, Edge of Seventeen follows the coming-out of a naive 17-year-old teenager at exactly the moment when gender-bending pop stars like Boy George and Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics were flaunting androgynous images. As the youth, played with a heartbreaking sweetness by Chris Stafford, goes through his first rites of gay passage (after being callously used by the slightly older boy who brings him out, he tries to retreat to heterosexuality with his closest female friend) he emerges as a poignant gay everyman. Lea DeLaria is wonderful as his butch lesbian boss at the amusement park restaurant where he meets his first boyfriend.
Classification: Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Starring: Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Anderson Gabrych, Stephanie McVay, Lea Delaria, John Eby
Director: David Moreton
Members Reviews
Reviewed by: TB
Good actors - average story
Another movie about coming out, this time set in in Ohio(USA) where a teenager with a girlfriend over a summer finds out he does like the boys more than his girlfriend, but pressure from parents and friends is hard to deal with - not made easier by his appearance; he does really change into a Boy George-type, which seems a bit over the top, but the director may have had a reason. Of cousre, he is being abused by men who want "fresh meat" and he even manage to fall in love which is not reciprocated.
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Edge Of Seventeen
 
Genres:
Romance

Run Time:
99 Minutes

Subtitles:
English

Languages:
English

Countries:
USA

BFI Classification:
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over

Release Date:
26/09/2005

Production Year:
1998

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen 1.85:1

Colour:
Colour

Special Features:
  • Trailers
  • Region 0
  • Interactive menu
  • Scene selection
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