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5.1/10 • 7

2004-09-171h 28m

DramaRomance

A young man... His teacher...Crossing boundries

An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, David's home life is falling apart. As he tries to cope with the impossible situation, the troubled and impressionable teenager falls under the spell of Kenny, a georgous, thirty-something, has-been actor turned theatre coach. When Kenny's "support" escalates into seduction, David slowly decends into an abyss of drinking and drug addition from which he must escape if he is to survive. CRUTCH is a dramatic tale of the confusion of youth and the difficulties in finding oneself.

Directors
Rob Moretti
Writters
Rob Moretti, Paul Jacks

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  1. Eben Gordon

    Eben Gordon

    David Graham

  2. Rob Moretti

    Rob Moretti

    Kenny Griffith

  3. Juanita Walsh

    Juanita Walsh

    Katie Graham

  4. Jennifer Laine Williams

    Jennifer Laine Williams

    Julia

  5. Michael Ellison

    Michael Ellison

    Bobby

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CinemaSerf

Feb 27, 2023

5/10

It's hard to be too critical of something quite this viscerally autobiographical. It was his life and this is the way auteur Rob Moretti wants to relate it. It tells of his late youth as he comes to terms with his sexuality, his family's reaction to that, and to addiction. It's largely played through the eyes of "David" (Eben Gordon) who has to balance his own needs with those of those around him. Might he be able to find happiness with "Kenny" (Moretti)? Well that's what the next ninety minutes explore, and although this is clearly a labour of love for the director, it is certainly not for the viewer. The production is basic, at best. The dialogue resorts all to often to expletive-ridden rants that, though they do convey to an extent the frustration of this young man - actually served to lower the already struggling standards of the film. Sure, tell your story - but if you cannot connect with the audience then it becomes and remains little better than a vanity project. The acting here is mediocre, the pacing slow and it is all just a bit too self-indulgent to really engage. It's always a danger when one person controls the entire creative process of a film, and when it is about that person's life experiences too it can - and this one certainly does - lose any sense of objectivity. This is poor, sorry.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$420,000.00
Revenue
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Keywords
gay theme