Rating: R
Genre:
Romance
Theatrical Release: 07/23/1999(USA)
Release Date: 02/08/2000
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: 5.1/2
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Flags: Adult Language, Sexual Situations
Distributor/Studio: New Line Home Video
A shy musical comedy composer searches in vain for someplace to bed down with a sexy go-go dancer in this sweet-natured romantic comedy set in Manhattan. College student
Gabriel (
Christian Campbell) wants to compose musical comedies;
Katherine (
Tori Spelling), his muse and confidante, wants to star in his productions. In the meantime, she's rehearsing an all-female version of
Salomé set in a women's prison while he drowns his sorrows about a negative review at a tony strip club. On the way home from the bar,
Gabriel notices
Mark (
Jean Paul Pitoc), one of the dancers from the club, catnapping in the subway. One mumble-mouthed come-on later, the men attempt to consummate their attraction to one another at Gabriel's tiny apartment, only to find themselves frustrated by pets, roommates, and a visit from
Katherine. The couple's attempt to find a suitable boudoir leads them from one location to another; along the way, they discover that their attraction might extend beyond a single afternoon's ardor.
Trick marked the feature debut of director
Jim Fall, a New York University alumnus who had previously lensed such gay-themed shorts as
Shanghai,
He Touched Me, and
Love Is Deaf, Dumb and Blind.
Fall and first-time screenwriter
Jason Schafer spent more than three years reworking his original script while raising half a million dollars to finance the film, which appeared at the
Sundance and
Berlin film festivals in 1999. Much of the publicity over the film centered on the heterosexuality of its two male romantic leads; despite such mild controversy,
Trick became a modest art-house hit.
~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
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