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Mormon boy Aaron (left) and party boy Christian fall in love in Latter D ays, playing April 3 0
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hen 1 first came to Los Angeles, it
looked like just this mass of dots,”
narrates the vulnerable hero at
the very start of the film Latter
Days. “All jumbled and disconnected.”
Its a lovely way to begin, and it’s a
metaphor that returns to great effect for several
characters in this story of a gay Mormon who
falls in love during his mission. Regrettably,
jumbled and disconnected are also terms that
describe most of this film.
Writer C. Jay Cox (who also wrote Street
Home Alabama, which explains a lot) makes his
directorial dehut with Latter Days, an indie that
has been making waves and getting a lot of
press, particularly when its January premiere in
Salt Lake City was canceled because of pressure
from the Mormon church (the Mormons having
learned quite well from Independence Day that
when you infect the mother ship, you infect the
whole fleet). It was screened several weeks later,
thanks to the Salt Lake Film Society.
Now opening April 30 in Portland, the
setup for Latter Days is promising and beguil
ing. Young and achingly cute Aaron, along
with his goofy, shallow (and, of course, homo
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phobic) nxnrtmates, moves in to the apartment
next to out-and-proud party boy Christian
(who wears tiny gym shorts circa 1982 board
walk roller skater, which is convenient because
even sheltered Mormon boys from Idaho can
immediately peg him as gay).
Christian, a renowned player among his
peers, bets his restaurant co-workers, including
roommate Julie (Rebekah Jordan), that he can
bed the cute Mormon. But how will he prove
it.7 He’ll bring them his underwear!— a plot
device that apparently hasn’t gotten old since
we saw it 20 years ago in Sixteen Candles.
Underwear aside, Aaron (played by Steve
Sandvoss in his film debut) and Christian
(played by Wes Ramsey, who co-stars in the
T V sitcom Luis) steam up the screen— even in
simple getting-to-know-you conversations. The
sexual tension is manifest, touchable— you get
turned on just thinking about what these boys
should be doing to each other.
Coupled with Aaron’s innocence and quiet
explanations about his culture— “we’re not
allowed to do a lot of things,” he confesses in a
series of simple, humbled tones— and Christian’s
realization that there might he more to life than
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