Beautiful Thing

Language: British English

Story: Two young school going kids fall in love after one of their fathers beats them and comes to live in the others house and they have to share a bed. They care for each other and yet dread being openly gay. Finally the mom finds a gay magazine under his bed and follows them to a gay pub and asks him about it. He tells her and they cry together. Everything becomes ok.

I think the way the coming out to the mother was portrayed was very tender though emotionally charged. I half expected the guys to run off from home and become hustlers like every other gay teen movie ever but they were still at home and happy about coming out at the end of it. So it was a good movie just for that.

End: Sort of premature ending since I wasnt sure if it ended or not but it was a happy and romantic ending. It’s hard to say happily ever after when they are fourteen, I suppose.

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