Looking for love, finding love, losing love, wondering what love is, finding it again but in a different way. That's what this movie is about.
Torch Song Trilogy is an excellent movie. It's a combination of 3 plays Harvey Fierstein wrote in the 1970s. I was fortunate to see the world premiere of 2 of them in San Francisco at Theatre Rhinoceros. The combination into a single movie makes for a very powerful movie.
I'm told that Matthew Broderick agreed to be Harvey Fierstein's lover in this movie (he even kisses Harvey in the movie) in gratitude for Harvey's giving him a break on the Broadway stage when Torch Song was first performed as a play. (In the original play, Matthew Broderick plays the son.)
It was a very courageous thing for Matthew Broderick, at the height of his career, to play a gay character and especially to kiss another guy, knowing that he would be dropped from all the teen heart-throb magazines and would lose a ton of movie roles.
Between Harvey and Matthew, this is a film well worth seeing.
Torch Song Trilogy is an excellent movie. It's a combination of 3 plays Harvey Fierstein wrote in the 1970s. I was fortunate to see the world premiere of 2 of them in San Francisco at Theatre Rhinoceros. The combination into a single movie makes for a very powerful movie.
I'm told that Matthew Broderick agreed to be Harvey Fierstein's lover in this movie (he even kisses Harvey in the movie) in gratitude for Harvey's giving him a break on the Broadway stage when Torch Song was first performed as a play. (In the original play, Matthew Broderick plays the son.)
It was a very courageous thing for Matthew Broderick, at the height of his career, to play a gay character and especially to kiss another guy, knowing that he would be dropped from all the teen heart-throb magazines and would lose a ton of movie roles.
Between Harvey and Matthew, this is a film well worth seeing.