Clapham Junction (2007 TV Movie)
1/10
Dreadful doesn't begin to sum it up
7 November 2011
Warning: Spoilers
It's not just that the actors all come from the school of Sneering at the Camera is good acting. And not just that the director thinks extreme close-ups are artful rather than simply exposing bad skin and makeup. It's not that there's no real script, just a lot of clichés thrown back and forth. Or that one of the characters veers between a superb rendition of Edina in Absolutely Fabulous and the venal agent in Frazier.

No, the real problem is the strange underpinnings of angry homophobia. According to this movie, all gays want sex, all the time. All gays are always being beaten up by gangs of youth, all the time. All gays are cruel to each other, and despise straight people. All gays are, basically, screwed. (And when gays have to run away from thugs, they always run to places where there are no people around, such as woods, so that no one can help them.)

An unpleasant and incoherent work. Run. Run away, as fast as you can. And not into the woods.
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