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POT BREAK IS GAY
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To be fair, even if I hadn't had the heads up, I would've ught onto the simmerg homoeroticism of "Pot Break" pretty quickly. It stars a young Keanu Reev (who would star "My Own Private Idaho" two months later, but had already played gay by this pot) and Patrick Swayze (still a few years off om "To Wong Foo, " but already cshed-on by men and women aplenty), both radiatg full movie-star wattage. The movie's excellence is extrible om s homoeroticism.
'POT BREAK' IS GAY
Ls often discsed than Pot Break’s homoerotic unrton is the fact that a chunk of the California-foced film was shot Oregon. Self-fulfillment, y, but a morn film, there would have been more gay sex at the end.
(*He's wrong about this: there is no gay sex the terrible 3D 2015 remake starrg Edgar Rámirez).
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