Carol (Edi Falco), a Granite Falls high school teacher, has worked for years to get her former student Chris (Jay Duplass) released from prison after years of being locked up for a murder he didn’t commit. Lynn Shelton’s final Washington-state film-filmed on location in Granite Falls, all gray skies and verdant foliage-is also her finest. For proof of the film’s persisting relevance, you need only know that it ends with people complaining about condo construction. But Hype! smartly looks at how grunge was as much a feat of marketing (especially by Sub Pop) as of art. Hype! (1996)Ī grunge documentary could easily become another part of the brouhaha around early ’90s Seattle. What could just yuk it up for bromance laughs instead becomes a tender, intelligent take on sexual identity, masculinity, and progressive Seattleite inclusiveness. The late writer-director Lynn Shelton’s breakthrough piece remains a vital work of local moviemaking, following two straight male friends who decide to have sex with each other on camera. The story is well worn, but even three decades after its release, the chemistry between the three leads feels brand-new. Though set in the late 1980s, this calls back to 1940s Hollywood romance and glamour-all pianos and innuendo, cigarettes and bad behavior. When they bring a singer into the fold-a former escort played by Michelle Pfeiffer-things get romantically and filially complicated. Beau is the dorky, married businessman Jeff is the louche, laconic, gifted artist. Real-life brothers Jeff and Beau Bridges star as the Baker boys, a piano jazz duo who slink around Seattle playing small-time lounges. And it’s “just the right amount of pretentious.” The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) “It’s less superficial than other drag scenes I’ve seen,” Hoffer says, noting that here drag cross-pollinates with other art forms. Told through interviews with Hoffer, friends, and family, the movie offers a funny and holistic look at Hoffer’s life on stage and off, as well as what sets the Seattle drag scene apart. This documentary traces the life of Seattle’s Jerick Hoffer (the person behind the Jinkx persona) as they grow up, start doing drag at 15, head to Cornish College of the Arts, become Monsoon, win that season of Drag Race, and have their career blossom. Jinkx Monsoon was the first queen from the Pacific Northwest to appear on RuPaul’s Drag Race. However, old fashioned Sam wants his future love life to be based on meeting a woman the traditional way and he, in turn, becomes infatuated with an unknown woman he spots a few times in Seattle.Image: Tim Evanson / CC Drag Becomes Him (2015) Jonah is excited by one letter in particular from Baltimore and will do whatever he needs to to get his father and Annie together. Back in Seattle, Sam has received hundreds of letters from women wanting to meet him. She even writes to Sam proposing they meet atop the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day. But Annie's relationship with her straight-laced fiancé Walter is unlike her dream love life in the movie An Affair to Remember (1957). Annie's infatuation with Sam's story and by association Sam himself is despite being already engaged. Among the many women who hear Sam's story and fall in love with him solely because of it is Annie Reed, a Baltimore-based newspaper writer. On Christmas Eve, Sam (on Jonah's initiative) ends up pouring his heart out on a national radio talk show about his magical and perfect marriage to Maggie, and how much he still misses her. Although Jonah misses his mother, he wants his father to get a new wife despite Sam having not even contemplated dating again. Eighteen months later Sam is still grieving and can't sleep. After his wife Maggie passes away, Sam Baldwin and his 8-year-old son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief associated with Maggie's death.
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