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Sara Rue,
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Kett Turton,
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Todd Stephens,
Todd Stephens
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: Hart Sharp Video
: 94 min.
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Two outcasts, Gypsy and Clive, feel small-town Sandusky, Ohio closing in on them. They lose themselves in Gothic fantasies that help them escape from a town that takes great exception to those who don't fit in. But when Gypsy learns about the annual "Night of 1000 Stevies" in New York City, her deep-seeded dreams are unleashed. With Clive's encouragement, Gypsy crushes her fears and vows to be the best Stevie Nicks impersonator Gotham has ever seen. They pile into a '79 Trans Am and begin a journey for acceptance. In five hundred miles they will reach New York, but not before colliding head-on with the judgements of both society and themselves.
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| Song that you're singin' --
by GGoodsell
March 21, 2005 - 3:29 AM PST
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1 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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Gypsy Vale is a twenty-nothing Foto Hut employee, stuck in Sandusky, Ohio, who dreams of becoming a rock singer. Learning of a Stevie Nicks impersonation contest at a New York City nightclub, she jumps into a 1979 Trans Am with her gay Goth friend Clive -- and goes in search of herself.
As expected, no cliché is left unturned and no heart string is left unplucked. The director's previous film, EDGE OF SEVENTEEN trod on similar ground. In that film, the teenage hero comes to grips with his homosexuality while navigating through the largely uncharted world of the early 1980s New Wave/New Romantic scene. GYPSY 83s characters inhabit a similar dead-end, Wal Mart world but seemingly deserve their fate. The heroine and her fey friend turn up their noses at people in stonewashed jeans but don't seem to grasp the fact that they're wearing clothes bought at the same mall. Gypsy remains unsympathetic throughout. This is where the DVD's deleted scenes come into play -- offered a promotion with higher pay at her place of employment; she thanks her boss by vandalizing her kiosk! You'll want to check out the deleted scenes for the bits with Karen Black, the only reason to watch this film. She knocks us dead with a torch song, and in the deleted scenes has a "freak-out" scene as only Karen Black could accomplish. Overall, GYPSY 83 comes off as an unbearably trite young adult novel that just happens to feature gay characters.
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| Gothicly Sappy and Yr Gonna Luv It
by malaqueerche
January 1, 2005 - 12:10 PM PST
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2 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| How can you go wrong with a coming of age goth homo road trip movie? It has all the elements of yr favorite memories from high school wrapped into an hour and a half with Karen Black! Seriously, this movie is cheezy... but in the best possible way. Sara Rue (the fat girl from the now cult TV show Popular) does a fantastic job in a role that could have been completely butchered. Somehow you totally fall for these characters and their mundane lives -- you want them to succeed. The best scenes in the movie takes place in a rest stop in Pennsylvania -- with everything from fantastical shots (of the entire rest area bathed in candlelight and red and black tapestries) to some very raw and real sex scenes. If you were at all an angsty homo kid or liked the cure or Stevie Nicks then you'll love this movie. |
| A Gyp
by talltale
December 4, 2004 - 6:34 AM PST
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2 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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| You'll have to be very forgiving to spend your hour-and-a-half with GYPSY 83, a gay liberation/"I want to be a star" youth melodrama of very uncertain attitude and bearing. Among the better things the film offers are genuine performances from the two leads Sarah Rue (an interesting combination of Drew Barrymore, Bernadette Peters and Anna Nicole Smith at her heaviest) and Kett Turton, whose charm and looks go a long way toward covering a character made mostly of cliché. Karen Black turns up, doing her usual mannered work, but singing a very nice rendition of "When Sunny Gets Blue" (who knew?). The plotting is obvious, ditto the direction; sentimentality abounds; and, oddly, the sex scenes are handled better than the non sex--a rarity, for sure. The film has its moments, but these are too few to compensate. |
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