Product Details

• Actors: Amber Benson, Cole Williams, Lelliott
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Here
• DVD Release Date: July 17, 2007
• Run Time: 73 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000P6R9LW
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #159,354 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Race You to the Bottom" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Do love and sexuality have boundaries? When two 20-something best friends – a gay man and a straight woman – embark on a heated affair, all bets are off. Set during a road trip through the Napa Valley wine country, Race You To The Bottom is a liberating and thoughtful examination of sex and sexuality, love and friendship, and rebellion and consequence.

Customer Reviews

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1.0 out of 5 stars Horribly awkward acting, September 13, 2011

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Brad Smith (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Race You to the Bottom (DVD)

The two young 20-something leads here may go on to better things, but their acting skills in this low-budget indie are borderline amateur. They play the entire, mercifully short (70 min), film with fake cutesy smiles and forced expressions. Neither one is likeable. Their road trip to Napa Valley has some nice scenery, but that's the only redeeming quality in this painful disaster. I did like the indie soundtrack, but those are a dime a dozen these days. The lispy male lead was perhaps more annoying than the female, though why she thinks she can ever convert a gay man is the central flaw in this completely absurd mess.

1.0 out of 5 stars Race you to the bottom, September 4, 2011

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This review is from: Race You to the Bottom (DVD)

The storyline was somewhat boring. The movie starts off slow and never picks up the pace. I recommend this for someone who isn't really interested in watching a good movie but just wants something in the dvd player while preoccupied with something else.

1.0 out of 5 stars Very depressing film, January 21, 2011

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Ronnie Bradley (Wishaw, Lanarkshire) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Race You to the Bottom (DVD)

I give this film its only star because of the performance by Amber Benson, who at least made the character she played watchable.

However, I'd be lying if I said I enjoyed this movie. Neither of the two lead characters are in any way sympathetic nor do I particularly feel that the issue of fluid sexuality is dealt with in any way other than the superfluous. What we have is the tale of two utterly reprehensible, hedonistic and shallow people who are so blinkered by their own lust that they can't be bothered to even consider how their actions may hurt others, especially their respective boyfriends, whom they show nothing but contempt for. This would almost be excusable, if the characters through the course of their trip actually learned something, but they don't. Instead all we get are two self-centred characters on a sex-fuelled road trip that goes wrong and then they learn nothing from it. it is a literal road to nowhere both for the characters and the audience.

I found this film deeply depressing and indeed distressing,. I think anyone who has had bad relationships and have hang ups about relationships through that should avoid this film because it is a movie that will only succeed not in taking your mind away from your worries (as good entertainment should) but will re-enforce all your fears and woes and insecurities. it goes beyond bad story telling into the realms of the dangerous.

Amber Benson thoroughly deserves the awards and applaudes she got for this role, if for no other reason than it showed she could play a character with no redeeming qualities whatsoever, after having found fame as a character with many redeeming qualities. But the film itself is depressing, derivative and ultimately a throw away. it makes no point, and I'd even call the viewpoint callous from the writer/director, who seems to view fidelity as something to be mocked.