- Actors: Shayne Gray, Thang Chan, Rachel Zan Huss, Colonious David, Charles J. Ingram
- Directors: Ira Sachs
- Writers: Ira Sachs
- Producers: Loring McAlpin, Margot Bridger
- Format: Adult, Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language English, Vietnamese
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Strand Home Video
- DVD Release Date: 12 Feb 2002
- Run Time: 85 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00005ASPH
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 171,629 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A muddled and insulting film. Low budget doesn't have to have an influence on the script or how a film is directed. The problem with this film is certainly not its low production value. In a day and age where discussions are taking place in the top ranks of the US government about changing the constitution to officially discriminate against, gays, we certainly don't need people out of our own ranks creating pieces of entertainment, which show gays as purely dysfunctional human beings.
In The Delta, we have two very vague character studies: one of a 17 year old, upper middle-class kid who vacillates between seeming perfectly happy in his heterosexuality and going out to pick up guys. We never understand this character. There doesn't seem to be any conflict even though his situation screams out for it. Shayne Gray is charming, but that doesn't help a script, which was doomed before it was filmed. The other character is a bitter and confused Vietnamese/American/black man, who claims to search for love, but turns to a murderer, when the young man abandons him. We are left with his act of murder without ever understanding what drove him to it, or what really makes this person tick. After 95 minutes it simply ends and you are none the wiser why it was even written.
Verdict: it puts gay film-making back 25 to 30 years.
Format:DVD
? This film left me with a huuuge question mark.
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF CREATING IT?
The plot doesn't exist (well, for some maybe). We have some characters, but we really don't have a chance to know them. To learn something about them.
Yet again a movie, where all gays pictured, aren't likable. One is a closet case, straight? bi? I haven't the foggiest.
The second becomes a killer, after being rejected...
It's one of the films that won't do good to gay community.
Above all of that, the quality of sound and picture is really poor. Low budget is low budget, but it doesn't mean that you don't allow viewers to hear dialogues in your film!
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF CREATING IT?
The plot doesn't exist (well, for some maybe). We have some characters, but we really don't have a chance to know them. To learn something about them.
Yet again a movie, where all gays pictured, aren't likable. One is a closet case, straight? bi? I haven't the foggiest.
The second becomes a killer, after being rejected...
It's one of the films that won't do good to gay community.
Above all of that, the quality of sound and picture is really poor. Low budget is low budget, but it doesn't mean that you don't allow viewers to hear dialogues in your film!
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Interesting .... but for a limited audience, in my opinion
28 July 2000
A compelling character study -- revolving around the confused relationship between a 17-year-old Memphis student and a slightly older Vietnamese immigrant -- that makes for a fascinating tale of sexual, social and racial differences and injustices. Lincoln (Grey) is a sensously handsome youth who, though having a girlfriend, cruises the city's parks after dark for clandestine sexual encounters with other men. There, and later in a peep show store, he meets Minh, a talkative but very troubled young man and the son of a black American GI father whom he has never met, and a Vietnamese woman. Minh takes a liking to the shy Lincoln and they soon set up a strange, quasi-sexual friendship that quickly results in a boat ride deep down the Mississippi Delta in a modern quasi-Tom and Huck adventure.
These two opposites -- Lincoln, the privileged white teen, and Minh, the poor foreigner -- for a bond that inevitably leads to trouble. The film suffers from poor sound, but for adventurous filmgoers, it should not be a disappointment.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Provocative but incomplete
12 Jan 2003
Format:DVD
The film's twist on the Huckleberry Finn/American West motif is well-done and commendable. Similarly, the burgeoning relationship between the two young men is initially well-dramatized. However, Minh's character lacks development, and potential dramatic use of his disenfranchisemnt (half-black, half-Vietnamese, gay, poor) is unexplored. Minh's character arc lands him the only place he could end up: risking what little he has to avenge his abandonment. Yet we are left wondering the complete reasoning behind his decision, and, in fact, we do not know Minh's name until the movie is almost over. Without due psychological exploration of Minh, the movie's pace is jerky and the film left being somewhat cryptic, which would be to the film's credit if it seemed intentional.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Love Stinks
25 Jun 2000
A compelling character study -- revolving around the confused relationship between a 17-year-old Memphis student and a slightly older Vietnamese immigrant -- that makes for a fascinating tale of sexual, social and racial differences and injustices. Lincoln (Grey) is a darkly handsome youth who, though having a girlfriend, cruises the city's parks after dark for furtive sexual encounters with other men. There, and later in a peep show store, he meets Minh, a talkative but somewhat troubled young man and the son of a black GI and a Vietnamese woman. Minh takes a liking to the shy Lincoln and they soon set up a strange, quasi-sexual friendship that quickly results in a boat ride deep down the Mississippi Delta in a modern Tom and Huck adventure. These two opposites -- Lincoln, the privileged white teen, and Minh, the poor foreigner -- form a bond that inevitably leads to trouble... Love stinks!
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