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Winning Dad

Country: USA, Language: English, 95 mins

Gay | Drama | 2015

Director: Arthur Allen
Writer: Arthur Allen
Producer: Case Barden

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Winning Dad is an over-bearing, sub-standard, vanity project.

Arthur Allen does it all...stars, writes, directs...and, produces. A jack-of-all-trades...definitely, a master of none.

Apart from his character being more annoying than an inebriated killer-mosquito with a death-wish (hopefully, he was actually acting), this dialogue-driven melodrama is - sadly - bereft of any decent dialogue. For instance, when discussing books, a character says:

"How did you get so reader-(l)y?" - perhaps, the word is erudite?!?

But...wait. It gets a whole lot worse...to paraphrase the stiff-as-a-board son: Dad, put your bible down, I want to tell you something...did you know that I whimper when I've got a hard dick stuck up my ass...!!!

Classy stuff. The story is utter codswallop.

Technically, the camera wanders - quite arbitrarily - in and out of focus.

There is no composition to speak of...and, those songs!!! Why?

Even for a vanity project...this stinks.

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The(ir) Blurb...

Colby’s dad knows his son is gay, but he doesn’t like talking about it. He respects it, but ignores everything about that aspect of his son’s life – he doesn’t even know about Colby’s long-term boyfriend, Rusty. Increasingly committed to Rusty, Colby hatches a plan to trick his father into camping with Rusty under the pretense that Rusty is Colby’s straight friend and future business partner. Colby is convinced that, given the chance, his father and his boyfriend will get along great.