Stars: Josh Wiggins, Darren Mann, Taylor Hickson...
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Summary: Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Two best friends get drunk on a party and spend a night together in bed. We don't really see what's happening as it's all under the blankets, but something definitely happened as one of them runs out of the room angrily and the other one tries to stop him. From that moment on, I believe I'm not the only one who thought Franky was the gay one because he was the one who tried to calm down the situation as if he did something wrong. But, there's a plot twist in the film and I'm not going to spoil it for those of you who might be interesting in watching this.
After the thing between them happened, they start getting more and more distant, their families also start growing distant and then bullying kicks in. There's a violent bashing scene where Franky is the victim so that was pretty difficult to watch as well as the previous bullying, cold-shoulders and distancing from a person that was his best friend until then. That's one of the reasons it was so difficult. It wasn't anybody who was behind those things, it was his until-then best friend. It's sad to see how much people can change as a result of their (auto)homophobia.
I liked the character of Mouse. I think she (or he? I've read that people characterize her as a transgender character. She's not very feminine nor she tries to be, but I still considered her to be a female) was the only fun character.
Even though she's not as fun, I also liked the character of Natasha because she showed a generous amount of empathy towards other people despite having to go through horrible things herself.
Another interesting aspect of the movie is that Franky's father is also gay and divorced. The mother and father are still sorting things out and the mother is still coping with it as we can see in the movie. Franky and his father don't have much of a relationship, but later on in the movie that changes. We can see his father being there for him and that was a nice moment in the movie.
After all of this, I still can't say I liked the movie. It was too bleak for me. All of the characters (except for Mouse) were sad and struggling in their own way. It wasn't too enjoyable to watch, especially the bashing scene which was sort of a culmination of events.
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