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"The Trip" Director Miles Swain and Producer Houston King with special
celebrity guests Rosemary Alexander ("The Trip" & "Sordid
Lives") & Newell Alexander ("Sordid Lives"), will make two
special appearances this weekend at Camelot Theatres.
They will appear for the Friday, June 13th, 8:00 p.m. and Saturday, June 14th
3:00 p.m. screenings of "The Trip". The filmmakers will do
introductions prior to the film and Q & A's following each designated
screening. Normal ticket prices apply to these special screenings.
Following each designated screening the filmmaker's will head over to
Hunter's Bar in Palm Springs where they will be distributing merchandise give-a-away's
and signing posters courtesy of TLA Releasing.
Regular daily showtimes for "The Trip" at Camelot Theatres will be
12:45, 3:00 and 8:00 p.m. starting Friday, June 13th.
The award-winning film "The Trip" opens nationwide this Summer in
over 20 cities from TLA Releasing.
This is very rare for an indie gay film to reach such a large audience and it
is due in part to the fact that the film has crossover appeal with Jill St..
John, Julie Brown and others.
This film tells the innocent love story of two men set against the backdrop
of the modern gay civil rights struggle. Furthermore, the film shows a beautiful
and understanding mother played by Jill. St. John (every gay manâ's dream
mother!) The film has been called a "G-Rated Disney Gay Film".
From polyester to parachute pants, THE TRIP is the hilarious but bittersweet
story of a long-term romance between two gorgeous young men. It is a gentle
farce about the foibles of relationships and a sweeping chronicle of the
turbulent early days of the modern gay rights movement.
This on-again-off-again love story unfolds against two remarkable decades of
gay history. The Trip begins in 1973 Los Angeles, a time when its two
college-age protagonists couldn't be further apart. Tommy Ballenger is a
"radical homosexual" activist and Alan Oakley is a
"straight" diehard Nixon Republican. When the scheming actions of a
closet-case mogul and Anita Bryant bring things to a head, it's hard to see how
truelove can survive. After being separated until 1984, the two are reunited on
a cross-country road trip but the Federales are hot on their trail.
AWARDS...
REVIEWS...
Intelligently written, sensitively directed, warmly touching, and
laugh-out-loud funny, this debut film by Miles Swain deserves applause on every
level. "The Trip" is one I'm happy I made." Destined to be a big hit- This movie is one of the best told love stories I've seen in years. So well
is this film made, written and acted that you'd have to be a pretty big hard ass
not to get pulled into the hilarious and even touching exploits of Alan and
Tommy as their lives take the most unpredictable of turns. Try it, you'll like
it!
Eric Campos/Film Threat
Take "Tales of the City," condense it into an hour and a half, move
it to '70s and '80s LA, focus the storyline on two young men -- one a gay
activist, the other a Republican out of touch with his own sexuality -- add a
little "Thelma & Louise" in Mexico at the end, and you have
"The Trip." If you enjoy reminiscing over the heady days of early gay
liberation, then you won't want to miss the good-natured humor and sweet
nostalgia of independent-actor-turned-writer/director Miles Swain's first
feature.
San Francisco Chronicle/Kathleen Wilkinson
Director Miles Swain's affecting feature ''The Trip'' travels from the heady
days of gay street activism in the early 1970s to the rise of AIDS in the 1980s,
concentrating on a closeted gay conservative and a sweetly defiant
nonconformist. Swain's moving feature spans a decade of social change. It is
interspersed with documentary footage of gay rights rallies, AIDS protests,
Ronald Reagan's presidency during the AIDS pandemic, and Anita Bryant's infamous
antigay crusade in Dade County, Fla. Sullivan plays Alan Oakley, a writer and
closeted conservative whose romance with a sexy, self-assured activist (Steve
Braun, who could be Brad Pitt's twin) jolts Alan into self-awareness and a
political rebirth. Part love story, part historical journey, ''The Trip''
tenderly chronicles the gay experience from fear to love to political and
spiritual awakening. A fantastic film! The performances are enormously winning the script is smartly written and it
provides a poignant and insightful and occasionally hilarious overview of life
during a crucial period of gay life and liberation in this country. With his
skillful depiction of Tommy and Alan, Swain creates a powerful character driven
tale that is the cinematic equals to works by Edmund White and Tony Kushner.
Darryl Macdonald Writer/director Miles Swain's feature debut is a bold, inventive film that's
an excellent choice to close this year's Miami Film Festival. Alan and Tommy's
final journey echoes several classic road-trip films, including Five Easy Pieces
and Thelma & Louise. Swain makes an impressive directorial debut here,
combining a strong visual sense with effective narrative clarity and pacing. His
production support is outstanding, notably some lovely cinematography from
Charles Barbee and Scott Kevan, who achieve a real Seventies look using vintage
filmstock and a dark, richer feel for the Eighties scenes; Seventies and
Eighties pop music standards give an authenticity to the story, well supported
by Steven Chesne's evocative musical score. In closing, it's a good way to go.
Miami New Times/Ronald Mangravite
"Entertaining... Satirical romp through the 70s and 80s... Always laced
with wit."
MIAMI HERALD
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