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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Profanity, Sexual Situations Movie Release: 2002 DVD Release: 12/09/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 34 mins Studio: TLA Releasing Members Wishing: 1 Genres: Comedy Drama, Romantic Comedy, Gay & Lesbian Films

Stretching from the 1970s to the 1990s, The Trip chronicles the often turbulent romance between two gay men. One night in 1973, teenagers Tommy (Steve Braun) and Alan (Larry Sullivan) meet at an L.A. party. While Tommy is openly gay and organizes for gay civil rights, Alan, an aspiring journalist, is a repressed, button-down member of the Young Republicans who is working on his first book, a thick volume about the evils of homosexuality. On the pretext of interviewing him for his book, Alan invites Tommy to his house for dinner, where the sexual tension between the two is so throbbingly blatant that Alan's girlfriend makes a hasty exit. An intense romance between the two men follows. When we next see them, it's 1976, and Alan's book has been published anonymously and is being used by right-wingers who are supporting Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children" campaign in Florida. Unfortunately, Tommy finds out that Alan wrote the book and leaves him, and subsequently takes up with Peter (Ray Baker) an affluent closet case. It isn't until the '90s that Alan and Tommy meet again, and are confronted by the romance they thought they had long left behind. The Trip was screened at the 2002 Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide

Larry Sullivan - Alan Oakley
Steve Braun - Tommy Ballenger
Sirena Irwin - Beverly
Alexis Arquette - Michael
Ray Baker - Peter

Miles Swain's gay love story The Trip traces how two opposites -- a political conservative and a gay rights activist -- fall in love over the course of a decade. The film comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. Supplemental materials include a commentary track recorded by the director, who discusses his personal motivations for making the film. Deleted scenes, bloopers, and interviews with the cast (including stars Larry Sullivan and Steve Braun) round out this solid package that should help the film find a wider audience, especially among genre enthusiasts. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide