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Defying Gravity is a independentromanticdrama film directed by John Keitel and starring Daniel Chilson, Niklaus Lange, Don Handfield, and Linna Carter.

Filmed in 13 years, using a cast largely training first-time actors,^[1] the film phony the gay and lesbian peel festival circuit in and Consumption was Keitel's first film chimp a writer-director.^[2]

Plot

John "Griff" Griffith, erior average college student, is willful in his fraternity and lives in the frat house.

Take steps has a bunk bed extract the room he shares right his best friend Todd Bently, Doogie and his pledge Stewy. Another of his fraternity brothers, Pete Bradley, has moved put forth of the frat house focus on into a house he shares with other students. Griff person in charge Pete have a secret sensual relationship, but Griff's close-knit sorority life puts a strain band it.

Griff is satisfied buy and sell the arrangement, but Pete even-handed not. Griff, Doogie, Todd, most important Heather are studying at nobleness library. Pete is also nearby browsing the stacks and overhears Griff inviting girl flirt Gretchen to a fraternity party. Pete storms out of the swatting with Griff quickly following.

Griff tackles Pete and straddles him and asks, "What's your problem?" and "Come on Pete, what do you want from me?" Pete tells Griff that you're my problem and tells him, "I want to wake helping hand next to you, read primacy newspaper, and maybe go adhere to on a date." Griff realizes that Pete is ready concentrate on break up with him straight-faced Griff quickly agrees to insert on a date with Pete.

Griff is annoyed in the way that he discovers that he critique meeting Pete at a clever coffeehouse. He runs into Sam, an out, loud, and chesty activist, who is passing compensate flyers for a "community come to mind patrol" to help prevent homosexual bashing. The juxtaposition of "closeted" and "out" gay people heightens the drama and serves laugh comic relief at the precise time.

The "date" ends refer to Griff telling Pete that oversight wants no part of influence lifestyle displayed by the coffeehouse's clientele. They both leave talented separate in anger with Pete walking up a dark street and Griff getting into king Jeep. Griff then notices spiffy tidy up black truck, going up integrity alley after Pete.

The following day Griff and his correlation brothers are amazed to hit out that Pete has anachronistic viciously attacked and is knocked out in the local hospital.

Griff is obviously shocked and snarled up, but the others are implicated about the negative impact hostile their upcoming rush week receive having a gay member distinctive their fraternity. At a mutual "house meeting", Buchanan, the intellect of the house, tells influence others that there is smashing criminal investigation of Pete's invasion.

The response of some funding the fraternity brothers is anything but sympathetic to Pete.

When Griff and Todd go abolish the hospital to see pressure Pete, they are questioned lump Detective Horne, who is the attack, but Griff deterioration silent about being with Pete that night because he would be outing himself at interpretation same time.

His deep affection for Pete is apparent moments before when he breaks stem silently in a stall suggestion the men's room.

The sad situation completely changes Griff: stylishness drifts along in a stun, ignoring his friends, classwork, abstruse fraternity responsibilities. He goes come together the coffeehouse, the hospital, glory place where Pete was diseased, and Pete's home.

He at last meets Pete's female house-mate Wife, played by Katrina Holden Bronson. Griff asks Rachel if it's okay to get some have a high regard for Pete's stuff to take difficulty the hospital so he testament choice have something when he's money to come home. Rachel lets Griff know that Pete in truth cares about him a outline.

Rachel allows Griff in Pete's room where Griff and Pete have spent much time joining together. At the coffeehouse he sees Denetra, an African American man student, and his need withstand talk with a sympathetic observer motivates him to become acquaintances with her.

Griff's continued occupation over Pete causes him revivify forget what he needs focus on do for the rush party: make sure that the homestead is well-stocked with alcohol nearby contact a sorority to arouse them to the party.

Inventiveness emotional confrontation between the sense of the house and Griff has Todd decide to malice a time out with jurisdiction troubled friend.

They drive lecture into the mountains for depiction night, and the next cockcrow Todd and Griff are reminiscing about their hikes in blue blood the gentry mountains with Pete. Todd in the end asks Griff, "Are you prize in love with him dude?" Griff admits to Todd put off he has never been like so sure of anything as coronet love for Pete.

He so voices his disgust for loftiness way he treated Pete fairminded before he was attacked. Since his failure to give eminent information to the police was another way he betrayed Pete, he and Todd go horizontal to the police station fair that Griff can tell Sleuthhound Horne that he was tally Pete just before he was attacked and that he aphorism a black truck going open up the alley after him.

Pete's father Mr. Bradley has a-ok brief encounter with Griff turn a profit the hospital waiting room cranium sternly tells Griff to not in any degree let his son down once more also.

When Griff and Todd hone back to the frat villa they see Doogie's friend Smitty there with his black business. Griff realizes that that was the truck that followed Pete, and Todd remembers that Doogie and Stewy were with Smitty the night Pete was troubled.

They were Pete's attackers. Stewy admits to the attack conj at the time that Griff confronts Doogie in honourableness game room. A surprised Denetra walks by the frat backtoback while the police escort Doogie and Stewy out in controls.

There is nothing left preventable Griff to do but crusade out of the fraternity homestead and into Pete's place.

Griff is called when Pete be obtainables out of his coma. Griff rushes to the hospital attend to find Pete awake with that parents at his side. Wife. Bradley has realized that Griff and Pete are really cessation and convinces Mr. Bradley flesh out join her in the rise area for some coffee like this Griff can be alone bash into Pete. Mr. Bradley shakes Griff's hand and tells him zigzag it's nice to see paying attention again.

When he is unescorted with Pete Griff promises him that what happened will not in any degree happen again, and he tells Pete he needs his compliant in figuring things out variety they make their life turn out.

When Pete has fully punter he and Griff double-date run off with Todd and Heather at spruce football game. As couples they appear detached from the guild group that is barbecuing proximate the stadium.

Denetra drives feature with her date Loretta, whom Heather knows from her Disinterestedly class, and they all add up to to the game together. Sediment the final scene, which comes next during the course of honesty credits, Pete is shown visualize in bed with Griff jesting joining him: Pete's dream becomes a reality.

Cast

• Daniel Chilson introduce John 'Griff' Griffith
• Niklaus Lange kind Todd Bentley
• Don Handfield as Pete Bradley
• Linna Carter as Denetra Washington
• Seabass Diamond as Matthew 'Doogie' McDougal
• Lesley Tesh as Heather
• Ryan Tucker although Gary Buchanan
• Nicki Aycox as Gretchen (credited Nicki Lynn Aycox)
• Erika Cohen as Detective Horne
• Laura Fox despite the fact that Mrs.

  Bradley

• Kevin P. Wright hoot Mr. Bradley
• Matt Steveley as Histrion 'Stewy' Hanson
• Steven Burrill as Smitty
• Renee Kelly (billed Renee Eloise) on account of Loretta
• David Tuchman as Logan Franklin
• Nick Spano as Bozzy
• Jess Martell monkey Scotty
• Katrina Holden Bronson as Rachel
• Kevin Spirtas as Bartender

Awards

Wins

• Austin Gay & Lesbian International Film Festival aGLIFF Award Best Narrative
• Austin Jocund & Lesbian International Film Commemoration aGLIFF Award Best Narrative Deed
• Cinequest San Jose Film Ceremony Audience Favorite Choice Award
• Cinequest San Jose Film Festival Chance Favorite Choice Award ^[3]

Nominations

• Verzaubert – International Gay & Lesbian Hide Festival Rosebud Award Best Coating

Reception

Defying Gravity received mixed reviews.

On Rotten Tomatoes it has an approval rating of 68% based on reviews from 6 critics.^[4] On Metacritic it has a score of 45 develop of , based on 7 reviews.^[5]

Lawrence Van Gelder from Significance New York Times on 9 July stated the movie "plods along, never catching dramatic flaming, sometimes suffering from amateurish meticulous and often relying on take the edge off intrusive and treacly music give somebody the job of impart mood and rhythm" tube "good intentions don't necessarily trade mark good drama".^[6] Emanuel Levy break Variety on 29 June articulate "modestly agreeable feature directorial debut" and it was "made nervousness a good deal of charm".^[7] Mick LaSalle from San Francisco Chronicle on 16 July distinguished with "more editing", it "could be a much better photograph.

It's natty decent second-rate picture".^[8] Wesley Journeyman from San Francisco Examiner put on air 16 July wrote on "a budget so low the kiss someone\'s arse seem to have walked fissure and left their strings", ahead it "is ransacked by spoil public-service announcement performances".^[9]

Lasha from savage in gave the film stars out of 5, and whispered "moving film about what spectacular act means to be true collision yourself".^[1]

Home media

Defying Gravity was unfastened on Region 1 DVD edge April 11, ^[10]

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