[WashingtonSource]

I think he larded up what might have been a more interesting story with a lot of heavy-handed propagandizing. Even so, I doubt the original story from the novelist, which I have not read, had the makings of a great movie. More to the point, I don't think the subject would have mass appeal.

[RobbyS]

To reiterate what we all know, the point is to advance the homosexual agenda by creating sympathy with "victims" of what the call homophobia. This film lacks the bathos of "Philadelphia" but it is still sentimental. One of the characters is a monster, what Gene Shallit called a sexual predator ever bit as unbalanced as Glen Close's character in Fatal Attraction. In refusing to make this character a villain, Lee ends up with a tale that is at its heart false.