Product Details

• Actors: Liz Beckham, Will Blagrove, Cassandra Cruz, Clay Drinko, Daren Fleming
• Directors: Maurice Jamal
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Indican
• DVD Release Date: July 11, 2006
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000CEV3KK
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #74,733 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Ski Trip" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Colourful and extremely camp. Festive and goofy --Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

Product Description

Turning 30 is a damn difficult thing to do, especially if you're Corey Brown; an average Joe who is depressed over getting older, being out of shape and having just been dumped by his super hot boyfriend! So his friends decide to cheer him up by taking him on a fun filled weekend Ski Trip. His friends include the over-the-top Drama Queen, TERRY; His sexy, smart and sassy lesbian friend NIKKI; bitchy boy toy BYRON; sex crazy CARLOS; and OMAR, the sweet boy next door. A classic American romantic-comedy about looking for love in all the wrong places and finding it where you least expect it starring Black and Latino gay characters for the first time. These aren't simple queer characters; they are vibrant, articulate, strong and always hilarious.

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Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars the REAL brother to brother, August 23, 2006

By	Jeffery Mingo (Homewood, IL USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

First off, the title is deceptive. You will never see a set of skis in this film. Renting a cabin in a snowy area doesn't make it a ski trip. This indie (read: low-budget) film is filled with bad writing and actors with bad timing. The characters are all stock: the queen, the hag, the gym bunny, the bland main character, etc. The actors are constantly reading each other, but not well. The queeniest character takes up too much space and also doesn't allow time to develop the other characters. One character is so nasty that it doesn't make since that the others continue to associate with him. The stereotypical accents may grate your nerves after awhile. The makeup crew should have been fired because each and every character is caked in too much makeup. Three characters have baldies and no beards and may touch on ideas that "they all look alike." The male characters often say, "We gay men" this and that. However, these are characters of color that should be fully conscious of racial issues and really should have said, "We Black and Latino gay men" this and that. Because I have read that Che Guevara was a nasty homophobe, I hated seeing the gay Latino character, who is played by an openly gay Latino man, wearing a shirt with his image on it. This film bites off of Go Fish, the Big Chill, Will & Grace, and many others. I haven't seen "Punks," but because that dealt with three gay Black friends and one gay Latino man, I imagine that this film may have imitated it too.

But shade aside, I appreciated this film. I encourage people to see it and tell others about it. Many predominately white, gay films have disturbing images of people of color. Pittsburgh is one-quarter Black, yet there are no characters of cool in "Queer as Folk." In "Jeffrey," almost all of the gay men of color are waiters and totally to the periphery of the narrative. "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert" shows a profoundly racist, xenophobic, and sexist depiction of an Asian woman. There is even a pathetic Black, gay film "Brother to Brother" that has no Black, gay couples in it. Hey, if low-budget flicks about straights of color like "Playin' for the Kitty" and "Drive By" can be made, why can't gay men of color do the same?

The main character is also the director and screenwriter. I imagine that this was a labor of love for him. I loved seeing young actors of color get film experience. I love that Black-Latino unity here. There is a shocking twist near the end that kept my interest. This is definitely an "A for effort" production.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Rehearsal to the "Noah's Ark" , November 21, 2008

By	Michael Kerjman (The Earth) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

"Ski Trip" looks instantly as some rehearsal to the "Noah's Arc - The Complete Second Season", of which much longer dialogues and self-confessions make this sometime-in-eighties produced movie much less entertaining.

Of course, relationship intrigue inter-linkage, scarcity of explicitly and not-so-much music played have to some extent been compensated with the New York City views although of a low-budget filmmaking.

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5.0 out of 5 stars LOL funny and sweet as can be--a worthy effort, April 26, 2007

By	Stanley L. Walker (Arlington, VA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I loved this film! The characters are delightful and the story is so sweet! There is much that is familiar here--it is indeed a friends-helping-friends type film. So, all the conventions you expect are present. But there is much of the unexpected here as well and it really pays off! A worthy purchase--buy with confidence!