As far as gay coming-of-age stories go, Beautiful Thing is rather straightforward. You'll be able to feel the cringe in this comedy about a woman who tries to bring her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving in an effort to come out to her entire family. But Jeffrey 's strength is found in its comic and playful look at a search for love amid the AIDS crisis, offering the kind of unabashed joy most of its contemporaries were unable to match. Fox Searchlight Pictures. If sweet and simple romantic tales make you swoon, you might want to look elsewhere. It's a classic. Gender Revolution.
When an outsider and the star rugby player are forced to room together at an all-boys boarding school, nobody expects them to get along.
What starts as a one-night stand quickly becomes more for two men in Nottingham. The problem with that? Amazon iTunes If any film can be credited with kicking off our cultural conversation on gender, this is it. Heath Ledger's shy Ennis del Mar falls in what he cannot articulate as love with Jake Gyllenhaal's Jack Twist over a long, lonely winter, and their lives bounce off each other's for years afterward.
But River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves anchor the film as Mike and Scott, two rent boys bonded by their estrangement from society.
