The Gist:
Pedro, content his life of friends and lovers, and most importantly no serious commitments, agrees to help his sister by taking care of his nephew Bernardo for two weeks while she is in India for a trip. When circumstances require Bernardo to stay longer, the boy's grandmother comes into the picture threatening to break up the new found bond between uncle and nephew and their fledgling family.
Comments:
I've mentioned the "gays plus a kid makes a family" subgenera here before. This is sort of the same idea, but with a determinedly single man in place of a troubled gay couple and without the cliche of having the kid be a homophobic jerk. Actually, several gay flick cliches are avoided, resulting in a movie dealing frankly with sex, drugs, and AIDS amongst other issues.
It's well done and worth a watch. Especially so if you're into bears of the big hairy man variety.
Women:
Family, neighbors, schoolmates. In other words, it does not ignore half the population.
People of color:
Nope
Gratuitous nudity:
The movie starts off with a rather revealing "bear on bear" sex scene, so yeah, there's definitely skin of the big hairy man variety.
- Director: Miguel Albaladejo
- Writers: Miguel Albaladejo
- Actors: Jose Luis Garcia Perez, David Castillo
- 99 min
- Spanish
- IMDB
