Rating: NR
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 06/28/2005
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1/DD2
Run Time: 85 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Strand Home Video
A group of gay and lesbian teen characters addresses the camera directly in this pseudo-
documentary about the travails of queer adolescence in early-'90s Los Angeles.
Andy (
James Duval), who hides his sensitive side beneath a nihilistic exterior, really yearns to find a nice boyfriend and settle down the way his pal
Steven (
Gilbert Luna), an aspiring filmmaker, has with boyfriend
Deric (
Lance May). Meanwhile, their sex-crazed friend
Tommy (
Roko Belic) has been kicked out by his parents for being homosexual. The only seemingly carefree members of this adoptive family are
Michele (
Susan Behshid) and
Patricia (
Jenee Gill), a lesbian couple whose desire to raise a child together leads the boys to participate in a group sperm donation during one of the film's many scenes of these characters just hanging out and rapping about AIDS, fag-bashing, homophobia, and alienation. In-between polemicizing and posing in front of
Steven's camera for interviews,
Andy meets college student
Ian (
Alan Boyce), who seems, at least for a while, to be Mr. Right. Just as
Andy and
Ian's relationship begins to blossom,
Steven and
Deric's starts to fall apart, but nothing's for certain in director
Gregg Araki's angst-ridden world. Framed as 15 vignettes, each one introduced by an ironic intertitle and many of them interspersed with graphic sexual and commercial images,
Totally F***ed Up marked the end of
Araki's no-budget phase; the glossy, gaudy
Doom Generation would follow two years later.
~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
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