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REVIEW: YOUTUBER MAX EMERSON’S GAY HTLER DRAMA ‘HOOKED’ LANDS WH A THUD
A val topic gets a heavy-hand treatment wrer-director (and social media star) Max Emerson’s “Hooked, ” a utnary melodrama about a homels gay htler that, more skilled hands, uld have evoked a latter-day “Midnight Cowboy.
”The film fds 18-year-old Jack (Conor Donnally) turng tricks to stay afloat while livg a Manhattan youth hostel wh boyiend Tom (Sean Ormond), both of whom apparently fled opprsive, homophobic parents. Dperate for a better life for himself and Tom, Jack impulsively puts his fah wealthy new client Ken (Terrance Murphy), a closeted gay bsman wh a long-sufferg wife (Katie McClellan). He battl through a vlent world of reckls johns between New York Cy and Miami, sperately seekg a better life wh his boyiend productn, box office & pany Vios1More like thisReview Predictable and weakSadly gay storyl appear to be very limed.