Top Brit gay flick out on DVD
16th July 2007. Write it down.
That is the day British
film thriller The Fruit Machine
will be released by Network on DVD
format for the very first time.
This
original, harrowing and powerful movie has been described as one of the best gay films ever made anywhere, but this one happens to be British. It stars Emile Charles, little brother of Red Dwarf star Craig Charles.
Directed by BAFTA-winner Philip Saville (The Life and Loves of a She-Devil), The Fruit Machine tells the story of two adventurous gay teens who go on the run from the bleak and dismal reality of 1980’s Liverpool, only to find themselves in the strange and fantastical world of transvestite nightclub The Fruit Machine.
There they witness the brutal gangland murder of transvestite hostess Annabelle, played by Robbie Coltane (Cracker), forcing the pair to run from both an underworld assassin and the police. Alone and in fear of their lives, the youths find themselves in Brighton, thrown into the arms of a gay opera singer and his manipulative manager.
Seriously, we cannot recommend this movie to you highly enough!!
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