Way over-rated....

Rating: 6/10 (29 July 2018)

I watched this thinking I was going to love it and cry a river after reading a bunch of reviews. First half was slow...slow, slow....and just when you think it couldn't get any slower....you guessed it...it got slower. I just couldn't buy the older handsome guy falling for the young skinny teen guy. And the whole relationship was completely inappropriate under the circumstances. In some ways, it was very realistically written and acted, but the degree of realism perhaps was more of a distraction. When the father has a heart to heart talk with his "gay" and in love son near the end, I just didn't buy it. As a whole, his advice/comments didn't ring true. The writer didn't say what I would have said in a situation where I'm older and wiser and now have a lot of good advice to give young people. Not a happy ending, but probably a given due to the circumstances. Acting was good, but I was never drawn into any of the characters. I liked God's Own Country better. And it didn't get near the praise.