Pit Stop

"Two men. A small town. A love that isn't quite out of reach."

2013 1h 20m EN

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5.9

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★5.9TMDB · 37

Drama

Synopsis

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Openly gay Ernesto and closeted Gabe grapple with the sad tribulations of being gay in a small, working-class Texas town

“Two men. A small town. A love that isn't quite out of reach.”

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Cast

Bill Heck
Gabe
Marcus DeAnda
Ernesto
Amy Seimetz
Shannon
John Merriman
Winston
Alfredo Maduro
Luis
Corby Sullivan
Les
Bailey Bass
Cindy
Heather Kafka
Linda

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Yen Tan
Writers: David Lowery, Yen Tan
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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80 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 8

ERA

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Released 13 years ago.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Yen Tan, shot by Hutch Crane. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Don Swaynos shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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5 / 8

CAST

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Bill Heck and Marcus DeAnda and Amy Seimetz carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Two men. A small town. A love that isn't quite out of reach.".

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt2397531 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 37 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Yen Tan directs. Hutch Crane behind the camera. Don Swaynos cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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180 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Released 13 years ago.
3Directed by Yen Tan, shot by Hutch Crane. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Editor Don Swaynos shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
5Bill Heck and Marcus DeAnda and Amy Seimetz carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "Two men. A small town. A love that isn't quite out of reach.".
7IMDB entry: tt2397531 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 37 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
9Classified under 9 themes, including "small town", "coma", "texas", "working class".

The technical file

Cinematography: Hutch Crane
Editing: Don Swaynos
Production design: Scott Colquitt
Makeup / hair: Liz McCracken
Sound: Eric Friend
Runtime: 80 min · 1h 20m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Pit Stop (2013)

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CinemaSerf2025-11-10
★ 5/10
“Gabe” (Bill Heck) has come to his awakened homosexuality later in life, after garnering an ex-wife and a daughter along the way. On the other wide of town, this are even more complex for the openly gay “Ernesto” (Marcus DeAnda) who is in the final throes of his relationship with his own ex-boyfriend while that man’s predecessor sits in an hospital bed, comatose, after an accident and serves to remind “Ernesto” of happier times. “Gabe” has had a few dates with men, but they’ve hardly been stellar successes so when he meets “Ernesto” is there any chance of a new start for either, or both, of them? This sort of comes alive during the last ten minutes, or so, but for the vast majority of the time it is a meanderingly contrived drama that shovels up as much bad news and as many gloomy scenarios as it can to depict both men’s lives as depressingly unfulfilled, despite the fact that neither really have any external pressures upon them to cause this degree on largely self-inflicted misery. Nobody’s acting is really worthy of note, nor is the wearisome photography or the dialogue and after about an hour I can honestly say I couldn’t have really cared less what happened to either man. It tries to depict some of the inner conflicts faced by it’s characters, but really just for the sake of it. Nothing new here, sorry.
CinemaSerf2025-11-10
★ 5/10
“Gabe” (Bill Heck) has come to his awakened homosexuality later in life, after garnering an ex-wife and a daughter along the way. On the other side of town, things are even more complex for the openly gay “Ernesto” (Marcus DeAnda) who is in the final throes of his relationship with his own ex-boyfriend (Alfredo Maduro) while that man’s predecessor sits in an hospital bed, comatose, after an accident and who serves to remind “Ernesto” of happier times. “Gabe” has had a few dates with men, but they’ve hardly been stellar successes so when he meets “Ernesto” is there any chance of a new start for either, or both, of them? This sort of comes alive during the last ten minutes, or so, but for the vast majority of the time it is a meanderingly contrived drama that shovels up as much bad news and as many gloomy scenarios as it can to depict both men’s lives as depressingly unfulfilled, despite the fact that neither really have any external pressures upon them to cause this degree of largely self-inflicted misery. Nobody’s acting is really worthy of note, nor is the wearisome photography or the dialogue and after about an hour I can honestly say I couldn’t really have cared less what happened to either man. It tries to depict some of the inner conflicts faced by it’s characters, but really just for the sake of it and for something that ought to have been emotionally charged, it’s all pretty flat. Nothing new here, sorry.