This is a strange and unbalanced movie and I don't quite know what to think of it. Attractive young Caleb meets-up with slightly older Jeremy through an internet dating site and they start a passionate affair. During the rest of the movie we see in flash-backs that the young guy has had numerous issues with an abusing and mentally ill mother, and we also see signs of a mental disorder in his own behavior. The older guy tries to ignore these red-flags or just recoils when his casual attempts to learn something of Caleb's past are aggressively rebuked. But at one point (due to Jeremy's own fault: he turned out to have hidden secrets too, and Caleb finds him out!) something in Caleb snaps and the whole movie capsizes into a sadistic keeper-prisoner flick. In the end Caleb ends up in jail, where he is questioned by (I suppose) a psychiatrist and where he reveals by bits and fragments the whole story.
The premise is rather thin, the moral is unsurprising, given the title: both protagonists hide their own truth for each other and that's lethal to any relationship. Their motives however are different: Jeremy hides his truth out of sheer selfishness, but Caleb is sick and probably would have also snapped at any other point in their relationship, even if there had been no hidden secret with Jeremy.
The whole thing impresses as very low budget, and while the first half of the movie is extremely slow, the second half is way over the top and totally unrealistic. Good parts are scarce, but I have to mention the scenes with Caleb's deranged mother, very well acted by Suzanne DiDonna. Rob Moretti as Jeremy (also the director, writer and executive producer!) acts rather subdued, his soft whispering way of talking was more irritating than sexy, and he is hardly convincing as the love-interest of such a breath-taking guy as Caleb.
Sean Paul Lockhart (with a background of starring in adult movies) actually played surprisingly well, in the scenes with his mother in the mental institution he was very touching, while in the sudden tantrums he threw with Jeremy he really scared the hell out of me. Only in the second half of the movie, where he's supposed to be a totally out of control murderous maniac, he lost me (but probably the director is to blame too). And okay, I admit, he is super-hot and sexy with a stunning physique and not shy to show it.
One more thing, the movie seems to have been sponsored by gay-favorite underwear-brand Andrew Christian, we see Caleb walk around in numerous types of Christian's underwear, sometimes the underwear even changes within one scene, and all of them spotless and in yet another sparkling color, I wouldn't be surprised if he has had the whole catalog to wear and show off. Now I can imagine that you have to raise funds somehow and that you are expected to fit some of the products in the movie in return. But in this amount it at may times distracted me from the story itself. Luckily Lockhart occasionally forgot to wear anything.
The premise is rather thin, the moral is unsurprising, given the title: both protagonists hide their own truth for each other and that's lethal to any relationship. Their motives however are different: Jeremy hides his truth out of sheer selfishness, but Caleb is sick and probably would have also snapped at any other point in their relationship, even if there had been no hidden secret with Jeremy.
The whole thing impresses as very low budget, and while the first half of the movie is extremely slow, the second half is way over the top and totally unrealistic. Good parts are scarce, but I have to mention the scenes with Caleb's deranged mother, very well acted by Suzanne DiDonna. Rob Moretti as Jeremy (also the director, writer and executive producer!) acts rather subdued, his soft whispering way of talking was more irritating than sexy, and he is hardly convincing as the love-interest of such a breath-taking guy as Caleb.
Sean Paul Lockhart (with a background of starring in adult movies) actually played surprisingly well, in the scenes with his mother in the mental institution he was very touching, while in the sudden tantrums he threw with Jeremy he really scared the hell out of me. Only in the second half of the movie, where he's supposed to be a totally out of control murderous maniac, he lost me (but probably the director is to blame too). And okay, I admit, he is super-hot and sexy with a stunning physique and not shy to show it.
One more thing, the movie seems to have been sponsored by gay-favorite underwear-brand Andrew Christian, we see Caleb walk around in numerous types of Christian's underwear, sometimes the underwear even changes within one scene, and all of them spotless and in yet another sparkling color, I wouldn't be surprised if he has had the whole catalog to wear and show off. Now I can imagine that you have to raise funds somehow and that you are expected to fit some of the products in the movie in return. But in this amount it at may times distracted me from the story itself. Luckily Lockhart occasionally forgot to wear anything.