Product Description: A man overcomes his hectic life to fall in love with his friend's brother in this engaging drama. SHELTER stars Brad Rowe (BILLY'S HOLLYWOOD SCREEN KISS) and Tina Holmes (EDGE OF SEVENTEEN).System Requirements:Running Time: 88 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/LOVE & ROMANCE Rating: R UPC: 858423001353 Manufacturer No: LIB00135
Amazon.com: The feature-film debut from art director Jonah Markowitz (Quinceañera) pivots on the tension between responsibility to family and responsibility to self. Recent high-school graduate Zach (Trevor Wright) has one summer to reconcile the competing halves of his life. The aspiring Picasso lives in blue-collar San Pedro with his irresponsible sister, Jeanne (Tina Holmes, Half Nelson), her five-year-old son, Cody (Jackson Wurth), and their rarely-seen father. Zach gave up his art school dreams to toil in a diner and help look after his much-loved nephew. With his best friend, Gabe (Ross Thomas), away at college, Zach draws, surfs, and skateboards by his lonesome. When Gabe's novelist brother, Shaun (Brad Rowe, Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss), returns to his Orange County home to recover from a broken heart, he and Zach alternate between riding the waves and encouraging each other to pursue their aspirations. Shaun is gay, while Zach appears to be straight, but a casual kiss between the two soon leads to a secret relationship. Before the former returns to Los Angeles, the latter has to decide who he is--gay, straight, artist, cook, uncle, or father--and what he's going to do about it. Except for the location shooting, this low-budget indie plays like an extended episode of The O.C. what with all the "bro"s and "dude"s and love scenes tame enough for network TV. Nonetheless, Markowitz's heart is in the right place, and Shelter may provide some real-life Zachs with the courage they need to follow their passions. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
This is a Great Movie Along with "Beautiful Thing" and "Yossi and Jaeger," Shelter takes its seat as a likable and pretty love story. This is the second movie about gay surfers I have seen along with the Australian flick "Tan Line." In what is considered a predominantly straight world, surfers, both of these movies explore the possibilities of gays among the ranks of these members.
There seem to be a great deal of reviewers with huge amounts of information about the movie so I am going to be brief. The movie is about the love that develops between two surfers Shaun (Brad Rowe) and Zack (Trevor Wright.) Zack comes from a dysfunctional family with a sister who is a single mother and her son Cody. Zack pretty much plays a father role to Cody and babysits him a lot. Shaun comes from a rich family who has a house by the beach. They both grew up together but Shaun being older than Zack. Shaun's brother is Zack's buddy.
Zack discovers he is gay after one night of drinking with Shaun. Shaun has just returned from LA who just broke with someone and was waiting to get a new place. Shaun kisses Zack and the turmoil begins.
Jeannie, Zack's sister, decides to move to Oregon with her new boyfriend. She dumps Cody on Zack. Zack finally comes to grips with his sexuality and decides to become a family with Shaun who adopts Zack and Cody.
Zack is a very talented artist who gets accepted to an Art College with a full scholarship. Shaun is a writer for Hollywood. And Jeannie abandons her son.
That is the movie in a shell. I like how Zack is portrayed as a caring, selfless, loving young man. The movie also projects that a men gay couple can be loving parents, that is definitely a plus.
This a good movie and a great love story. The men look very masculine, with Trevor Wright having that beautiful rough exterior. Wonderful cast and super job for the director.
Awesome!!!!! I ordered this movie for next day delivery! I got it the next day. The movie itself is just awesome,beautiful! The movie gives you a happy feeling by the end of the movie! I highly,highly recommend this movie to whomever would like to see it. Love,love this film!
A pleasant breath of fresh air I heard about Shelter on Afterelton.com, read the reviews, watched the trailer, and being a fan of Gay Cinema, became really curious as to how this one was going to be. I've seen a lot of gay cinema; and I find it unfortunate to say that a large quantity of it has been... less then par. It's either bad writing, low production value to the point of hurting the story telling, it's too weird....
Shelter is a very well told, well produced film that deserves every award it's won. The acting is good, the shots are beautiful and for once, it's a gay film that [SPOILERS]
...actually ends happily. I must say that I found this just as, if not slightly more enjoyable then Brokeback Mountian
EXCELLENCE in cinema - GAY DONE GREAT!!!!!!!! WOW - I absolutely LOVE this movie! Its sexy, hot and moving! I laughed, cried and fell in love with these guys! FINALY a gay love story that ends the way you want it to! NO I wont give away the ending but Im SO happy with how it turns out! Even the local Denver paper called it "The best love story of the last decade - gay or straight" and thats just the tip of the ice burg! Cant wait to see what this movie team comes up with next! SHELTER is nothing short of HOT HOT HOT!!!!!!!! At all costs - BUY THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gimme Shelter... Sometimes, rarely, after having watched dozens upon dozens of disappointing films, you get lucky and come across one that not only lives up to, but surpasses all the praise that more often than not was just hype anyways. And... also sometimes, you go back to watch it a second time just to see if your first impression was correct, and you are horrified to see that you were mistaken and that this is just a lousy film and you don't know what you were thinking. Have I sufficiently confused you? Then let me just say that this film, "Shelter", was one of the most beautiful, surprising, well acted, noble films I've ever seen. These actors, most of whom are either unknown or not "stars", are so, so much better than the small but undying, rotating, irritating crop of so called superstars that monopolize every churned out piece of Hollywood garbage. The performances here are so seamless, modest, and real, that you feel that you are watching just that, real life. Of course, watching real life can be boring, and what most actors and films of today completely fail at is to not only make the story interesting, but enables it to go beyond being entertainment to give it that intangible element of realism that truly moves you. In this film you feel their pain, joy, loneliness, frustration, and liberation in your very gut, and that is rare for films today, especially a "small' film that does not bang you over the head with special effects or try and bring a tear to your eye with overacting and ear splitting sweeping music. Though this film has a gay story line, it is relevant to anyone who is alive, and it's message about love, loyalty, and being true to yourself is for everyone. I will not go on and i will not tell you the story line as plenty of other reviewers have already done this, and some of them very well. I will only say that as a person who grew up loving the movies and having been disappointed in 95% of all the films made in the last 25 years, it is so refreshing, enjoyable, and heartening to come across a film as beautiful as this one. It is poetry. It is perfect. It hopefully makes some people aware that there are different and positive qualities that define a "family." It is the best film of it's kind that I have ever seen. And the actors, director, writer, etc..should all be extremely proud of their accomplishment, and, as a disheartened, quality- starved filmgoer, i thank them all.
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