Back Soon (2007)

Reuniting the actors from his hit film Long Term Relationship director Rob Williams Back Soon is a tender sexy drama that explores the depths of love loss identity and hope. Still grieving his wife's death aspiring actor Logan (Windham Beacham) is inexplicably drawn to reformed drug dealer Guillermo (Matthew Montgomery Gone But Not Forgotten). While neither are gay the pair are baffled when their friendship blossoms into more. But as their relationship deepens Guillermo's mysterious past erupts and a startling revelation about the true nature of their connection threatens to destroy it and change their lives forever.System Requirements:Running Time: 83 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/GAY & LESBIAN UPC: 807839003420 Manufacturer No: TLAD193 Product Description

tak, talk, talk.

too much talk - empty talk; and that's it. That's what you'll get from this movie. Disappointing. Boring. August 31, 2008

The Guest House Boys Strike Again

A big fan of "Long-Term Relationship", "Back Soon" was a must see for me. Windham Beacham and Matthew Montgomery once again displayed that magic chemistry. And Rob Williams' writing is indeed versatile....combining gay, straight and the supernatural. If you're a sentimental romantic, your eyes will mist on this one. August 28, 2008

Interesting film

Since I liked "Long-term Relationship" so much, I bought "Back Soon" because I knew it has the same cast and director. I am very glad I did.

This movie has some compelling acting performances and some very original and interesting plot lines. Matthew Montgomery and Windham Beacham once again sizzle together on screen and Maggie Eilertson as Beacham's dead wife does a marvelous job in her role. As independent films go, this one is excellent, add in the gay romance and this one enters my top twenty favorite indie films of all times.

(I don't want to give away the plot, but think "Ghost" meets "Return to Me" and somwhere in-between you get "Back Soon.") August 13, 2008

Good, but a couple of wrong turns

I hesitated over seeing this film, even though I loved LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIP, by the same filmmaker and leads. The cover art is unattractive and the plot seemed without nuance, as you know already what's going on without having seen the film. In fact, the first scene of the movie gives it away.

Now, having seen the film and liked it enough to want it in my collection, I can say the cover art is still bad. And I would suggest the third lead, the female actor, should be the figure looming over the two lead males.

I like the leads, both good actors, and I'm sure their contrasting physical appeal will have the audience member favoring one or the other - Montgomery is very angular, sharp-featured, while Beacham is lush, and has a more timeless appeal. There are a few kisses, but nothing more overt in any male-to-male physical interaction on-screen.

The plot has to do with how two straight guys find themselves in love with each other, and how they deal with that. The conclusion to the film will be a surprise.

There are a couple of bad missteps from the filmmaker: for one, there was no mystery, hence no surprise, as to the motifications behind the brother-in-law's behavior, and it seemed the performance by the actor should have been reined in, as well. Some of the smaller roles are well-filled, but there are bad dialogue scenes. Overall, the screenplay needed some finetuning, mainly to eliminate so much of the stereotyping of both male and female. The screenplay, at times, is unintentionally laughable, and not in a good way, more in a "this is camp" way. When there is too much of that, fortunately the performances of the two leads - both separately and together - saves the day.

The worst bit, merely because it's so inappropriate, is when one character ends up brandishing a gun. I won't go into details, but for some reason the actor points the weapon like the short-lived Hollywood fantasy of gun-slinging that involved shooting sideways. It was short-lived, because it was laughed at by virtually anyone who's ever handled a gun. If you hold a gun the way the character did in this film, basically you could be three steps from a barn and still miss it. So that was a big unintentional eye-popping laughfest during an otherwise tense scene, so the diector blew the big one, so to speak.

The director has interesting ideas - his LTR was great in exploring an aspect of being in love I can't recall another filmmaker delving into - but doesn't do some of the basic practical work behind the scenes to ensure a great product before he starts pointing his camera and saying "Action." Hopefully he will have evolved by the time his third offering is set in motion. August 4, 2008

not really bad, but not good either

boring storyline,boring actors, sometimes really bad acting, I actually really suffered through this movie. It is 83 min. long, but I had the feeling I was sitting in front of my TV for about 4 hours until this movie ended. There were a few moments when I thought the story gets better, but after all it was a real dissapointment. This is one of the movies, you see and after 1 day you don't remember anything about it. July 20, 2008

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