Although I would be delighted never to see Todd Verow naked ever, ever, EVER again, it's not too hard to look the other way during the few minutes scattered through the movie when he forces his weirdly, selectively shaved body in our faces. (In his defense, I think - and I certainly hope, for his sake - that his character was SUPPOSED to be a creep.) Otherwise, I enjoyed this movie. It's a lot less strange than its descriptions make it out to be - and than I think Verow may have meant it to be.

Ostensibly, this is an almost random collection of scenes deleted from an unfinished movie about a dysfunctional gay relationship, but that conceit falls by the wayside almost immediately. It turns out to be a fitful but ultimately quite touching and well-developed love story between a big, strong, warm-hearted, salt-of-the-earth (and successful) Slavic hustler named Wolf and his very cute and sweet but very neurotic and fragile drug-addict boyfriend Sean, both New Yorkers in their mid-thirties. Both Ivica Kovacevic (Wolf) and Michael Vaccaro (Sean) are extraordinarily, surprisingly good in what must have been fairly difficult roles.

A couple of side stories appear out of nowhere late in the movie - one about a hustler named Fast Eddie and the other about an old alcoholic queen named Clement and his clown-haired female crony Ashley - which some other reviewers complain about because they seem irrelevant to the Wolf-Sean story, but I appreciated both of them. I was especially grateful to Fast Eddie for what he did before he went on the lam, and Clement and Ashley provide a little comic relief in an otherwise pretty intense movie.

The abundant sex scenes are soft-core ONLY in that they show no penetration, but they're so realistic that it's easy to imagine that THOSE were the real deleted scenes. The hustler sex is appropriately mechanical and boring (and creepy when Verow is the john), but the sex between the two lovers is romantic and passionate and even lovely, really a joy to watch. But prudes and Puritans? don't trouble yourselves with this movie: you will NOT be happy in this audience, except to whatever extent you get your kicks by being outraged.

USA gay-themed movies which are concentrated on the story of a gay couple, concentrate as well on explicit sex scenes (signature of the promiscuous gay life-style which in major part I disagree with and I feel it's the product of a suppressive society). The movie doesn't deviate from this although it brings a bit of complexity to the story. Plot flip-points are handled well in the movie. I give credit also to the director and the cameraman, the movie view didn't seem static like most of low budgeted gay-themed movies (or over-closeup shots like some others). Actors performance could be found boring at sometimes but I liked the touchy moments in the film. In general, not a bad watch and with a little bit of actors improvement and more budget, I feel the movie would be much better.

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One thing I observed from watching the movie is that the story which isn't related to the main couple - the one where Wolf's armature porno film-maker finds a replacement, seems incomplete. We see a sense where the replacement driving his car after being in the film-maker's apartment with a bloody knife - indicating that the replacement guy killed him. Latter we see the guy walking on the beach on the sight of an old man and finally we see the guy with a slit throat naked on the beach. Either the directer edited a lot of this story or maybe it's the director's/writer's vision about loneliness and focusing on body- pleasure instead of spirituality (which I find it way deep for a short story like this). Another point to mention is that when Sean and Wolf broke-up at the end of the movie. Sean mention that Wolf might not had someone to give him so much attention until the point of stocking, like what Sean did, "you loved it!" as Sean said. Did Sean broke-up with Wolf because he felt that the whole relationship is unhealthy or he was doubting that Wolf loves him for other than his "stocking" attitude or it was much deeper - to spare Wolf form hardship by being with a recovering addict (or addict, depending on how you see it)? In any case, I find the ending satisfying.