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Old 07-29-2014, 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by TrueFaith77 View Post
Beautiful Thing! A classic. It's British. Based on a play by Jonathan Harvey who is wonderful. His best work is the book for the Pet Shop Boys musical Closer to Heaven, which I would make into a movie if I ran Hollywood. Too bad Spielberg pals it up with that fraud Tony Kushner (Angels in America).
If you're a gay teenager in the UK, it's pretty much a legal requirement that watching "Beautiful Thing" is part of your coming out

I've seen that movie sooooooooo many times. I used to go to a gay youth group when I was..well..youth..and we watched it A LOT.
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