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Disco Years (The)
- Director: Robert Lee King
- Writer: Robert Lee King
- Producer: Richard Hoffman; John Peter James
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The golden gay age of the 70s...a hideous mother blackmails her son into taking disco dancing classes.
Vile girls, the campus queen, the tennis hunk...oooh when boys wrestle and go skinny-dipping at midnight.
It's all been done over and over AGAIN - BUT BETTER.
Change the record and get better actors.
Dreadful. Even PAINFUL.
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The(ir) Blurb...
Tom Peters looks back to 1978, the year in high school that he came out of the closet. Tom's mom is both sweet and intrusive, urging him to take out girls. She also drags him to her disco-dancing lessons. His friendship with Matt becomes his first love, and then Matt turns on Tom with homophobic venom. Later, Matt and Matt's new girlfriend trash the classroom of an effeminate teacher with more vicious homophobia. At first, Tom joins in heaping scorn on the teacher, then he has to decide if it isn't time to open the closet door. A crisis of sorts ensues with his mom, and disco proves to be a balm.
Cast & Characters
Matt Nolan as Tom;
Gwen Welles as Melissa;
Dennis Christopher as Mr. Reese;
Russell Scott Lewis as Matt;
Robin Stapler as Denise;
Robb Willoughby as Teddie;
Bojesse Christopher as Bryan;
Wendy Brokaw as Nadia;
Steve Rally as Dance Instructor