The Trip with Larry Sullivan: DVD Cover
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The Trip Director: Miles Swain Cast: Larry Sullivan, Steve Braun, Sirena Irwin, Alexis Arquette

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  • DVD Release Date: 12/09/2003
  • Original Release: 2002
  • Rating: Rated R
  • Sales Rank: 19,844
 
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Scenes

Features

Commentary with director and cast; Deleted scenes with commentary; Bloopers; Behind the scenes featurette

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Scene Index

Side #1 --
1. Los Angeles '73 [7:55]
2. Is This a Date? [9:37]
3. A Straight Republican [7:25]
4. Sexual Deviants [6:11]
5. Surprise Visit [4:53]
6. All You Need Is Love [7:29]
7. Published [7:08]
8. Picture Perfect [7:21]
9. Girls Just Want Alan to Have Fun [9:48]
10. On the Road [6:44]
11. Guns & Gas [8:03]
12. Gay Heaven [7:16]
13. True Love [2:39]

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Editorial Reviews

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 All Movie Guide

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Tripby Anonymous

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September 13, 2005: I did not expect much when I read the film's description--a gay activist and a conservative Republican. My first thought was YUCK. But I was pleasantly surprised. What a powerful love story, and oh how touching! I enjoyed the film and do not regret buying it. Some viewers, however, will note striking parallels with a sentimental straight movie of yesterday, the one called "Love Story." If you are old enough to remember that movie and liked it, you should love this one.

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March 07, 2005: March 8, 2005 Reviewer: Justin Fish (Cos Cob, NY) - See all my reviews My partner and I just saw this movie and it was really worth it. We just ordered it so that we can have a copy of our own. We were reading reviews on Friday to get a sense of what good gay themed movies we'd missed. I don't know how we missed this one. It doesn't have skin and the characters won't be going to any 'white party''s anytime soon but this movie had spirit, heart, values and it was just really heartwarming. I cried at the end. I agree with all the reviews that bring in their own lives. This totally shows how two people who love each other can overcome all obstacles. Even though one character dies their love lives on. It sounds really trite but I am just not doing it justice. See this for yourself and do it with good friends or, better yet, the person you love.


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