Q CINEMA PRESENTS
OUR MONTHLY FILM SERIES
Poster Boy
8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2004
Four Day Weekend Theater, 312 Houston St., downtown Fort Worth
Tickets are $7 ($3.50 with a student ID), which includes one free drink
and hors d'oeuvres at the Vivid after-party.
". . . an absorbing drama about
a right-wing U.S. senator campaigning for reelectionand the gay son at odds
with his father's narrow views. . . .
directed with confidence by first-timer Zak Tucker . . . the drama remains
interesting and its characters intriguingly complex."
-- David Rooney, Variety
Headstrong college student Henry is the son of U.S. Senator
Jack Kray (Michael Lerner), a right-wing politician on an intense reelection
campaign. Henry's disgusted with his father, yet unwilling to come out of
the closet. Enter Anthony (Jack Noseworthy), an angry, boyish queer activist,
and his lovelorn roommate, Izzie (Valerie Geffner). One evening, in search
of distraction, the pair crashes a party on Henry's campus. There, Anthony
has sex with Henry - and finds himself wanting much more. Yet after discovering
Henry's identity, Anthony joins forces with a campus activist group plotting
to disrupt the senator's upcoming appearance. Through a jolting twist of
fate, Izzie becomes ingratiated within the Krays' ranks, bonding with the
gentile matriarch, Eunice (Karen Allen). Sure enough, all these crossed
wires lead to an explosive, jaw-dropping, surprise-filled climax wherein
family, love and honesty are put to the test. Extremely timely thanks to
easily drawn parallels between Mary Cheney and Henry Kray, Poster Boy
is also a stylistic valentine to New Queer Cinema's heyday and the ACT-UP
era's gay activism. Performances are across-the-board powerful - Lerner
seethes vileness as the hypocritical senator, and Noseworthy and Newton
bring intricacies to their complex characters. It's Geffner, though, who
will shatter you with her profound, star-making turn. -- Lawrence Ferber,
Philadelphia Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival
Poster Boy
screens at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 22 at the Four Day Weekend Theater, next
door to Reata, 312 Houston St., downtown Fort Worth
Tickets are $7, $3.50 with a student ID, and are available at theater about
an hour before showtime.
