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East Side Story
from WOLFE VIDEO
starring Rene Alvarado; Cory Schneider; Steve Callahan; Gladise Jimenez
directed by Carlos Portugal

Features:

• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• One of the better gay movies
  My boyfriend and I watched this movie for the very first time this past week. At first I didn't think it was going to be that good but I gave my boyfriend the benefit of the doubt and watched it anyways. I thought the one pretentious gay boyfriend was too stereotypical....unless that's the way they really are in L.A. Having seen some of the other gay movies that are out there, this is one of the better ones. It's one that I am going to add to my collection.

• A Little Bit of Everything
  
  "East Side Story"
  Amos Lassen
  A Little Bit of Everything
  Culture clashes, sexuality, gentrification, and politics are the issues handled in Carlos Portugal's new movie
  "East Side Story". Add a heterosexual twist in a movie set in East Los Angeles and you have a good time.
  When gay Hispanics start moving into a neighborhood that has been a traditionally Mexican enclave, you have a movie screenplay. When the new neighbors start renovating houses and adopting children from... more info

• Two-dimensional cliche but fun
  This is a fun, but heavily flawed, movie. It's charming as eye candy, and the story is light and amusing enough that it certainly passes the time favorably. But sometimes the comedy is too broad, the characters have crossed the line from believable to not, so the entire film suffers as a result of a screenplay and director who needed to take a heavy handed approach, or at least needed to know what the target was. Was the film meant to be a light-hearted romance, or over-the-top nonsense? We've got both... more info

• Nice people...Bad film
  Well...Home-movie to be precise. I guess a lot of effort went into it, but the result is without a doubt the worst DVD that I [still] own. Somehow you keep hoping that things will eventually turn out OK because most of the participants seem so charming -in real life. But no, when the last potential climax turns out to be an anti-climax again, and the end-credits begin, you know you'll never watch this film again. Don't see for yourself.

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