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Title: Rock the Boat |
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Release Date: 1998 |
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Running time: 89 min |
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Distributor and Production Company: Tell the Truth Productions |
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Director; Writer: Robert Houston |
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Producer: Robert Houston |
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Technical: 16 mm? |
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Relevance to DOASKDOTELL site: HIV |
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Review: Movie Review: Rock the Boat (1998); Producer/Director: Robert Hudson; 85
Minutes; PG-13; Independently distributed ( 8.0/10 Remember the 70's rock
song by that name in the bars? It turns up in the rollicking soundtrack, over
a fast-moving but grainy account of ten HIV-positive men who entered their
sailboat in a 2000+ 10-day TransPac (Trans-Pacific) race from What you see is virile, athletic men (regardless if one of them a T4 count of 50). Hairy chests abound. The camaraderie is of the sports high-five variety, with an occasional hug. The scenes move quickly from one incident (crisis) to the next, although there is a certain monotony of scenery. The photography (16 mm??) does not always focus properly. There was some interesting sociology. You had to compete to even get on the "AIDS boat" ("The Survivor"), and some men had to be turned down. (Well, that used to happen with the lineup in the Dallas Oak Lawn Softball association.) I don't know how they did it… ten men so cramped together (a reference to gays in the military), and how they got access to the Internet (by satellite?) They had a hair-raising brush with Hurricane Delores. But let's see more work from this small film company, with help maybe from larger independents and theater chains.
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