Starcrossed (2005 film)
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Film poster showing Connor and Darren, the two lead characters. They are in bed together, bare chested and covered from the waist down with a blue comforter. Connor is on the left, gazing at Darren on the right, who is asleep. | |
Directed by | James Burkhammer |
Written by | James Burkhammer |
Produced by | Stacy Codikow (executive producer) Debra Schneider (associate producer) Andrea Sperling Chris Stinson Lisa Thrasher |
Starring | Marshall Allman J. B. Ghuman, Jr. John Wesley Shipp Darcy DeMoss |
Cinematography | Kelly Evans |
Edited by | Phyllis Housen Joan Sobel |
Music by | Radio Sloan |
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Distributed by | POWER UP |
Release date | 2005 |
Running time | 15 min. |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Starcrossed is a 2005 independent short film written and directed by James Burkhammer and produced by POWER UP. It tells the story of Darren and Connor, two teenage brothers who find that their affection for each other is growing beyond the fraternal.
Plot
Darren and Connor are two brothers who, as teenagers, realize that they have deep, strong intimate feelings for each other and not just those of brothers. They enter into a close romantic relationship. While happy together, they fear what would happen if their gay relationship were ever discovered. Their fears are realized when their mother walks in on them sleeping naked together. When Connor overhears their father say that they will never be able to see each other again, the distraught brothers steal a family car and flee to a motel. Deciding that a world that can't understand them is a world in which they do not wish to live, and with a police officer discovering the car, the boys commit suicide by handcuffing themselves to each other through the bottom rung of a ladder in the motel swimming pool.
Cast
- Marshall Allman - Connor
- J. B. Ghuman, Jr. - Darren
- John Wesley Shipp - Lane, the Father
- Simon Ragaine - Young Darren
- Derek Sean Lara - Young Connor
- Darcy DeMoss - Mother
- Gina Rodgers - Amanda
- Torrey DeVitto - Maura
- Victor Bevine - Football Coach
- Colette Divine - Hotel Clerk
- Steven Guy - Cop
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