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Christopher Grant Pearson | ... |
Laslo Forsina
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Alec Manley Wilson | ... |
Cal McDonald
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Ryan Weldon | ... |
Zeke Masters
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Alexander Neil Miller | ... |
Gray Smith
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Justin Xavier | ... |
Sid Baker
(as Justin Xavier Smith)
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Robert Werner | ... |
Dylan Van Der Hoten
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Daniel Lipshutz | ... |
Julian Lucas
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David Vaughn | ... |
Frank Turner
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Eric Allen Smith | ... |
Blake
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Christopher Patrino | ... |
Ivan
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Enzo Nova | ... |
Carlos
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SHARED ROOMS explores the meaning of home and family through three interrelated stories of gay men finding connections during the week between Christmas and New Year's Day - a married couple who take in a teenage relative who was kicked out of his home after his parents discovered he was gay; a pair of roommates forced to share a bed for the week, much to the delight (and horror) of the one harboring a secret crush on the other; and two men looking for a quick hookup who end up finding a much stronger connection.
This movie is so boring, so amateurish in every respect, such an insult to its audience that one can't believe it ever got made in the first place. The director's previous effort ' Make the Yuletide Gay' at least had a certain naive charm , with a decent story-line and charming actors, so my expectations for this film were reasonable. But from the opening scene this low-budget shocker had 'epic fail' screaming out from the screen. There's nothing attractive about it. The acting is farcical, the story lines laughable and the claustrophobic sets an obvious sign of a very limited budget. This sort of rubbish 'Gay' cinema is an insult to any audience, especially Gays. If this is considered an acceptable standard for 'Gay themed cinema' than we are doomed. The final party scene is so incredibly lame, with such a ridiculous and predictable denouement, the only lasting impression one has is that you've just lost eighty minutes of your Life you'll never get back. Joyless, humorless and just embarrassing, 'Shared Rooms' shouldn't be shared with anyone. Awful.