Rating: R
Genre:
Comedy Drama
Release Date: 12/09/2003
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 94 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: TLA Releasing
Stretching from the 1970s to the 1990s,
The Trip chronicles the often turbulent romance between two gay men. One night in 1973, teenagers
Tommy (
Steve Braun) and
Alan (
Larry Sullivan) meet at an L.A. party. While
Tommy is openly gay and organizes for gay civil rights,
Alan, an aspiring journalist, is a repressed, button-down member of the Young Republicans who is working on his first book, a thick volume about the evils of homosexuality. On the pretext of interviewing him for his book,
Alan invites
Tommy to his house for dinner, where the sexual tension between the two is so throbbingly blatant that
Alan's girlfriend makes a hasty exit. An intense romance between the two men follows. When we next see them, it's 1976, and
Alan's book has been published anonymously and is being used by right-wingers who are supporting
Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" campaign in Florida. Unfortunately,
Tommy finds out that
Alan wrote the book and leaves him, and subsequently takes up with
Peter (
Ray Baker) an affluent closet case. It isn't until the '90s that
Alan and
Tommy meet again, and are confronted by the romance they thought they had long left behind.
The Trip was screened at
the 2002 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide
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