Product Details

• Actors: Carlos da Silva (IV), Ryan White (II), Adam Cox, Stephen Halliday (III), Joseph Valenti
• Directors: Dominick Brascia
• Format: Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Alluvial Filmworks
• DVD Release Date: November 5, 2002
• Run Time: 62 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00007CWI4
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #93,553 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

Mark Howard, Greenwood/Cooper Homevideo
"...the cute guys made me blush... the subject matter made me think"

Product Description
BREAKING THE CYCLE
Chat-room fantasy becomes unexpected reality in the Big Apple with roommates Jason and Chad.
Jason, a.k.a. HookUpBoy, is the typical laptop-sex groupie searching endlessly for the next encounter. The revolving game of hook up leads him to seedy porn theaters, hot phone sex encounters and a chocolate sex-fest on the dinner table that will leave you hungry for more. Unfortunately, Jason s obsession with the chat room leaves him lonely and unfulfilled. The rather demure Chad finds himself utterly attracted to the more raw brooklyn sex appeal of his Italian roomie Jason. As their friendship blossoms, both are trapped by their own desires of one another. Until one day, a buddy introduces Chad to the Internet, and he is left to discover the world of gay chat rooms. While cruising the sites, he unexpectedly comes across HookUpBoy, and the story takes on a whole new twist!

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars After-School Formula, January 2, 2003

By	interested_observer "interested_observer" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

Two good-looking gay guys are roommates in Manhattan. One likes to arrange dates in internet chatrooms; the other wants to get to know the other person first. The former gets "dates" - in a back area of an adult theater and with an 18-year-old nominally straight guy who plays baseball; the latter pines away at home. The roommates claim not to like each other. An underutilized, cute friend of the reserved roommate shows him how to get on the internet. Both roommates end up in the same chatroom. Try guessing the rest.

To its credit, this very earnest film flies through its motions in about 65 minutes. Snickers help one get past the wooden script and acting lulls. There are lots of skin shots, and the casting is attractive, though some of the sex scenes may not convince. (Maybe the two interviews in the extras section help explain that - both actors say they are straight and have never done this sort of thing before.)

While the movie clearly wants to show why getting to know someone before sex is better than a quickie through the internet, the roommate who holds back is not shown succeeding at getting much more than computer advice from a friend, who is told in turn that friendship is not enough to get any sex. The payoff for the slow-going roommate seems no better than the web-shopper's. It is not even clear the roommates will continue to tolerate each other.

Worthy, but trite...

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good looking guys, February 19, 2003

By	Christian Paquette "movie dude" (Sandy, Utah United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If anything this movie is worth it simply for looking at the good looking guys. The story line is a little preachy but still entertaining. "Chad" is particularly attractive and has a classical theatrical quality.

30 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dreadful, April 22, 2003

By A Customer

Quite possibly the worst film I have seen since Disorderlies starring the Fat Boys. The acting is awful, the script could have been written by a 10 year old and the score is so bad that it sounds like it was written on a Casio keyboard from Wal-Mart. There is not even a decent message to take away with you. Who doesn't know that chat rooms are not the key to finding love? This film (and I use that term lightly as the picture quality suggests videotape) is so rushed that it is over by the time you get back from the bathroom and even a child would be able to figure out the entire plot within the first 5 minutes. Simply dreadful and not worth wasting your time or money.