Love! Valour! Compassion!

"Eight men. One summer. Figure it out."

1997 1h 48m EN

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6.3

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73%

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IMDB

★6.3TMDB · 48🍅73%Rotten Tomatoes●59Metacritic★7IMDB · 3,709

Drama

Synopsis

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A group of gay friends spend summer weekends together at a lakeside house in upstate New York. As the season progresses and secrets begin to surface, the complex relationships within the group are sometimes strained and sometimes strengthened.

“Eight men. One summer. Figure it out.”

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Cast

Jason Alexander
Buzz Hauser
Stephen Spinella
Perry Sellars
Stephen Bogardus
Gregory Mitchell
Randy Becker
Ramon Fornos
John Benjamin Hickey
Arthur Page
Justin Kirk
Bobby Brahms
John Glover
John & James Jeckyll

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Joe Mantello
Writers: Terrence McNally
Languages: Russian, English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Shot for just $2.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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2 / 8

ERA

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29 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Russian, English.

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4 / 8

ERA

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Joe Mantello, shot by Alik Sakharov. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

ERA

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Original score by Harold Wheeler. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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

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8 / 8

CAST

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Jason Alexander and Stephen Spinella and Stephen Bogardus carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Joe Mantello directs. Alik Sakharov behind the camera. Harold Wheeler scores. Colleen Sharp cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in Russian, English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Shot for just $2.0M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
229 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Russian, English.
4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
5Directed by Joe Mantello, shot by Alik Sakharov. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Harold Wheeler. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Colleen Sharp shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Jason Alexander and Stephen Spinella and Stephen Bogardus carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "Eight men. One summer. Figure it out.".
10IMDB entry: tt0119578 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Only 48 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.