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DVD : Leaving MetropolisIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Troy Ruptash, Vince Corazza, Lynda Boyd, Cherilee Taylor, Thom Allison directed by: Brad Fraser  List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $22.49 You Save: $2.46 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Audience Rating: UnratedBinding: DVD EAN: 0754703762221 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, Digital Sound, NTSC Label: Wolfe Video Manufacturer: Wolfe Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Wolfe Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 06, 2004 Running Time: 88 minutes Studio: Wolfe Video Theatrical Release Date: 2002 Sales Rank: 48232 MPN: D3851D Related Items: Editorial Review: Description: Leaving Metropolis is the film version of Brad Fraser’s hit play Poor Super Man, which Time Magazine called one of the top ten plays of 1994. Fraser also wrote Love and Human Remains. He currently is writer and coproducer for Showtime’s Queer as Folk. David’s a successful artist in need of a muse. Looking for inspiration, he applies for a job as a waiter. Owners Matt and Violet don’t know quite what to make of David – he seems unconcerned with money, and overqualified for the job – but they love his energy and ideas. When David eventually reveals he’s a gay artist, Matt – who dreams of being a cartoonist – asks to see his paintings. But when he finds he has become David’s secret subject, unexpected feelings overwhelm Matt, and he’s drawn into a risky relationship that will change all their lives. Amazon.com: Torrid sex and tortured emotions fill the screen in Leaving Metropolis. David (Troy Ruptash), a successful painter, has lost his inspiration. To find stimulation, he gets a job at a small, out-of-the-way diner, run by married couple Violet (Cherilee Taylor) and Matt (Vincent Corazza, Owning Mahoney). When sparks fly with Matt, David gets stimulation and inspiration--but the portraits he paints of Matt may break the couple apart. The machinations of a bitter friend bring the situation to a boil. Though filled with lots and lots of sex (both gay and straight), Leaving Metropolis pays as much attention to the character's minds as to their flesh (well, almost as much--the sex scenes are quite extensive and the bodies are all beautiful). Some of the script's metaphors are a little clumsy, but the psychology is convincing. Adapted by award-winning writer Brad Fraser from his play Poor Super Man. --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - WORTH OWNING, ADD TO HOME COLLECTIONa little 1980's, but also 1990's. funny. good. buy it without regret. Rating:  - Pretty but just a bit to witty and cleverThis DVD is a mixed product with some very good aspects and some aspects that could have been done better. First, the good parts: The art direction and cinematography were super with colorful attractive interiors and attractive actors. Vincent Corazza does a good job playing Matt, a married man who ventures into a bisexuality. Cherilee Taylor is also exceptional as Violet, his wife. Thom Allison, playing the role of Shannon, a dying male to female transgender, is a high ... Read More Rating:  - I liked it more than other reviewers...because I found this to be a film with a great narrative. There is a flow from beginning to end, a view of relationships of different kinds. Some folks may be responding to the fact that there is no happy ending in this film, but there is no tragedy either. Instead the viewer is given hints about life moving forward, thus an ability to project out over time. The relationships are true to life, and the way that HIV is treated is the most realistic I have seen on film (it is just there, integrated, ... Read More Rating: - Not that goodi bought this dvd a while ago and rewatched it last night for the first time after a while.....I just found the characters so two dimensional...the story wants to take of..but does not really sucseed...And the actors did not really delft very deep into their emotions... abit dissapointing... Rating:  - Could have been so much better!The best thing about this movie was Vincent Corazza. Working with crappy dialog and a plot that tackled too many issues, he did a fantastic job expressing his character's confusing emotions without the need for words. This movie would have been really great had it stuck to the primary plot of a relationship between a married heterosexual man and a gay man. The main plot should have dealt soley with the bisexual issue and concepts of love, rather than bring in HIV, transgendered issues, fatal illnesses, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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