Henry Hart is a young gay artist livg New York Cy. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry puts his reer on hold and returns home to the small town of Big En, Montana, to re for him. While there, Henry hop to strike up a romance wh Dean Stewart, his high-school bt iend for whom he still has feelgs. But he's surprised when he fds that Pike, a quiet Native Amerin who owns the lol general store, may have a csh on him.
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BELOVED GAY FILM “BIG EN” TURNS 20 YEARS OLD
Out gay filmmaker Thomas Bezucha has a new film, “Let Him Go, ” now out theaters. It is also a change of pace for the director whose spic but, the feel-good gay romance, “Big En, ” had Henry (Arye Gross), a closeted grandson, returng to Montana to re for the firmed Sam (Gee Coe), who raised him. It was out the same year “Trick” me out, and the gay men “Big En” didn’t look like men other typil gay movi.
The qutn I was askg myself was: If we took away all homophobia and the external forc workg agast you, would you be any more fortable as yourself? I appreciate that you feature an digeno character “Big En” as the gay love tert. Gay people e all packag, and I remember Eric [Schweig] was moved and motivated to play Pike.
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