Product Details

• Actors: Tim Swain, Julia Frey and Gil Bar-Sela
• Directors: Todd Verow
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: WATER BEARER FILMS
• DVD Release Date: October 28, 2008
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001FXG2DK
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #129,597 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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BETWEEN SOMETHING & NOTHING - DVD Movie

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life Lessons, December 18, 2009

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James Derek Dwyer "James Derek Dwyer" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Between Something & Nothing (DVD)

This is a far more polished film than Bulldog in the Whitehouse; it made me happy to discover that all of Verow's films do not look like that one. Except for a few grainy night scenes, you'd never know that this was shot on HD video - Verow's preferred medium. Between Something & Nothing is an unusual film; a weird cross between The Paper Chase and Midnight Cowboy. I liked the art class scenes (though I never had a male model that built when I took figure drawing class back in 1977; if I had I might have figured out that I was gay a year earlier) and I liked Joe's walks on the wide side too. The two opposing storylines are actually quite complimentary. There are some very sexy love scenes too and Tim Swain is major league cute, and then hot with a mohawk, as Joe. With the exception of some bad, or inappropriate music during a couple of climactic scenes, I can't find much fault with this film.

The acting throughout is also superb.

Is it for everyone? Maybe not but it sure beats some of the Brat Pack films from the '80s that tried to mine similar territory. I don't know how much of Between Something & Nothing is autobiographical and how much is fiction - or simply embellished - but it feels authentic and a lot of it got under my skin.

by Michael D. Klemm, Cinema Queer

12 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hmmmm, November 15, 2008

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Cambel "cambel" (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Between Something & Nothing (DVD)

The one customer review was a cut and paste from the description on the back of the box. This leads me to believe that the person who left it was involved with the film which I find to be a bit disingenuous

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Skating around the abyss, March 27, 2009

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Blue in Washington "Barry Ballow" (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Between Something & Nothing (DVD)

On the whole, I liked this quirky flick. It had some of the elements of a film school senior thesis/1990s indie production. Filmed as it was in Providence, RI, home to the Rhode Island School of Design, it could easily have been the former. In any event, this is a challenging film, and whether it's worth the viewer's time is more subjective than usual. If you prefer your films to have clear character motivation provided at some point as well as some kind of a visible conclusion, you probably aren't going to love this story. On the other hand, director Todd Verow's look at the seamier side of student and urban life, is often colorful and interesting.

There were plenty of moments here when all of the otherwise very attractive principal characters seemed hellbent on some form of self-destruction despite their obvious intelligence, looks and talents. No plausible reasons for the behavior are provided by filmmaker, which leaves a sizable hole in the story. On the other hand, much of the excessive drinking, petty larceny, and coke sniffing on view here is probably not so far from actually happens when young adults are on their own for the first time in their lives. (RISD would probably not be fond of this reasoning and doubtless would prefer that the student characters not be poster kids for their school.)

On the positive side, there is some very interesting chemistry between the two lead male characters in the film--Joe and Ramon. The first, a gay boy-next-door type and aspiring artist and the second a handsome and fairly articulate street hustler. The attraction between these two attractive young men is totally understandable, but their growing relationship is far more complicated. Likewise, the bond between Joe and his student pal, Jennifer--both of them outsiders at the school--has its logic and is touching at times.

I wished that there had been more resolution to this story, but there are some good moments to be mined here by the patient viewer. A three-plus for an attractive cast and for a long look at Providence.