Product Details

• Actors: Mark Ford, David Rudd, Bryan West, Alexis Suarez, Desmond Dutcher
• Directors: Richard Lemay
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: WOLFE VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: January 27, 2009
• Run Time: 99 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001KF6F8U
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,755 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Whirlwind" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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WHIRLWIND - DVD Movie

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28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very well done, feel-good movie, January 27, 2009

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groomRN "Erik" (Illinois USA) - See all my reviews
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This was a terrific movie, one of the best gay movies I've seen. It's intelligent, funny, touching, smart.... I could go on, but you get the idea. The acting is great and the dialogue is very well written.

I loved the premise of this movie. The protagonist sets out to destroy the relationships between a group of people to satisfy his own bitter and twisted ends. Unfortunately, he doesn't count on the fact that these people have deep and honest feelings for each other. I won't say more, just that this movie has a very satisfying ending.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A bit contrived, but a well-acted look at NYC gay dating scene, April 22, 2009

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Bob Lind "camelwest" (Phoenix, AZ United States) - See all my reviews
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The dating experience for NYC gay men is a "Whirlwind" (2007) of players, a compulsion to be judged as "hot," manipulative jerks, and missed opportunities ... at least as it is portrayed in this commendable gay indie film, which won several audience awards at gay film festivals.

It features a solid cast of actors, many with Broadway stage credits, who come together to realistically portray a diverse group of thirty-something gay men, along with assorted "straight but not shallow" friends. Likely the characters were written to be stereotypes of a sort intentionally, to assure the viewer would be able to identify with at least one or two of them. There's the monogamous gay couple, having some problems with maturity and responsibility, and a handsome and personable guy who seems to have an aversion to dating the same guy twice. Add in a quiet man who has still not "moved on" from the sudden death of his partner in an auto accident two years before, and then there's the likeable but plain guy who keeps asking his friends for advice on how to better live his life. The dynamics of this closeknit group of friends is strained by a handsome newcomer, an event planner at local bars, who feeds on others' insecurities and manipulates them for his own amusement.

Although very well acted and directed, the situations seemed way too contrived to me, and best I can give it is four stars out of five. The DVD includes director commentary, a video of the actors' first table read, and a behind-the-scenes slide show.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy it for the sex, January 23, 2010

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Jon Carl Lewis (Trenton, NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

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Unless I got a defective copy of the DVD - THERE IS NO NUDITY IN THIS FILM and hardly any sex (on camera). That aside, I liked the broad, narrative outlines of this film. All of the writer and director's best friends found speaking roles in it, I believe, and every "good" line found it's way into the script, regardless of whether it fit with the timing or flow of the scenes. This is one of those films where I wish someone would take the story arc, the premise, the settings and make a good, film out of it - even one which contains some explicit lovemaking. Explicit sex and a lot more nudity would not have been out of place in this, mediocre version of the film. In fact they would have helped. But as it stands, this was an okay film which would be appropriate for gay teenagers or to watch with one's mother. It's that tame. Oh, and could someone tell the characters that if they lay off the drugs they might be able to plan a party in fewer than the three months it seems to take in the film? Just a thought.