About this movie
Cast & Crew
Cast
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Steve Braun
Tommy Ballenger
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Larry Sullivan
Alan Oakley
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Jill St. John
Mary Oakley
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Alexis Arquette
Michael
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Julie Brown
Out Loud Receptionist
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David Mixner
Himself
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Sirena Irwin
Beverly
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Ray Baker
Peter
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Dennis Bailey
Larry
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Alfred Dennis
George Baxter
Directors
- Miles Swain
Producers
- Houston King
Writers
- Miles Swain
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The Trip (2002)
Stretching from the 1970s to the 1990s, The Trip chronicles the often turbulent romance between two gay men. One night in 1973, teenagers Tommy (Steve Braun) and Alan (Larry Sullivan) meet at an L.A. party. While Tommy is openly gay and organizes for gay civil rights, Alan, an aspiring journalist, is a repressed, button-down member of the Young Republicans who is working on his first book, a thick volume about the evils of homosexuality. On the pretext of interviewing him for his book, Alan invites Tommy to his house for dinner, where the sexual tension between the two is so throbbingly blatant that Alan's girlfriend makes a hasty exit. An intense romance between the two men follows. When we next see them, it's 1976, and Alan's book has been published anonymously and is being used by right-wingers who are supporting Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" campaign in Florida. Unfortunately, Tommy finds out that Alan wrote the book and leaves him, and subsequently takes up with Peter (Ray Baker) an affluent closet case. It isn't until the '90s that Alan and Tommy meet again, and are confronted by the romance they thought they had long left behind. The Trip was screened at the 2002 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.
Reviews by Rotten Tomatoes
39%
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Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic
Despite its flaws, it eventually gets under your skin and is sweetly moving.
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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
There is absolutely nothing that hasn't been said more compellingly and originally somewhere else, and said often.
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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
The story's third-act detour into tragedy is predictable and unwelcome, providing a resolution that is too pat and familiar to be moving.
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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
By the time it's over you'll be able to fill a bumper sticker with everything you've learned.
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Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News
The screenplay has huge holes, character motivations are inexplicable, the tone switches from serious to loopy and back to serious, and the editing is choppy and uneven.
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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press
The Trip almost dares you not to like it, even when its script heads in all the wrong directions.
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Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
Riddled with romantic and political cliches but is often redeemed by the charismatic performances of Braun and Sullivan.
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