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Daisy Edgar-Jones

Jacob Elordi

Will Poulter

Diego Calva

Sasha Calle

Don Swayze

Ryan Fitzgerald

Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Jason Kravits

Dan Martin

John Lee Ames

Patrick Burch

Dwayne Grady

Kat Cunning

Anthony Palermo

Boone Platt

Ted Barton

Chad Coe

Dani Deetté

Syd Skidmore

Maxi Witrak

Jay Huguley

Kylar Miranda

Alex Boling

Mario Di Donato

Michael Zambrano

Jose Monteon

Christopher Nunex

Robert Lyman

Lonnie Henderson

Eric Brenner

Ryan Shukis

David Lovio

Buck McDancer

Scott Lang

Christopher M. Campos

Clarrel Pope

Benjamin Sanchez

Matt Ramirez

Daniel Minahan

Theresa Steele Page

Christine Vachon

Bryce Kass

Alvaro R. Valente

David Darby

Claude Amadeo

Randal Sandler

Tim Headington

Jenifer Westphal

Nate Kamiya

Peter Spears

Michael D'Alto

Joe Plummer

Chris Triana

Pamela Koffler

Luc Montpellier

Erin Magill

Shannon Pufahl

Joe Murphy

Kate Sanford

Robert Frazen

Mark Orton

Elizabeth Newton

Kate Weddle

Melissa Licht

Jeriana San Juan

Elle Favorule

Melissa Yonkey

Paul Schneider

Mason Plotts

Teddy Schwarzman

John Friedberg

Jeffrey Penman

Mollye Asher

Lauren Shelton

Laura Rosenthal

Kim Ostroy

Deborah Chung

Adam Paulson

Maor Azran

Colin Hartman

Diana Irvine

Nick Massari

Ryan Ryusaki

Athena Perample

Tyler Forsberg

Kendall Wells

Michael Ferragamo

Francisco Grey

Blake Moya

Antal Kalik

Jody Miller

Kris Krosskove

David Lee

Kyle Allinson

Tony Cantor

Linia Marie Hardy

Keara Birmingham

Jaxon Murff

David Agajanian

Paul Duchemin

Anne-Marie Hamill

Billy Sender

Joseph Genna

Eric Snyder

Sonia Cabrera

Veronica Rodarte

Lauren Wilde

Megan Williams

Christopher Osorio

Geri B. Oppenheim

Heather Ford

Jenna Keller

Michelle Sfarzo

Tara Shah

Katie Tritto

Alex Perrone

Brittany Turpen

Chase Heard

Daniel Curet

Megg Massey

Sean O'Malley

Lewis Goldstein

Alex Soto

Wen-Hsuan Tseng

Aaron Becker

Alphonse Swinehart

Scott Winston

Richard Friedlander

Glenn Allen

Alice Boucherie

Leslie Bloome

Shaun Brennan

Ryan Collison

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Perhaps the clue comes from the opening scene where “Lee” (Will Poulter) is having the most perfunctory sex with his fiancée “Muriel” (Daisy Edgar-Jones). He wants to get married, but she’s giving off some fairly unconvinced vibes. Then she opens the window to see a shirtless man draped across the bonnet of their car. It must be -5° outside, but this is his brother “Julius” (Jacob Elordi) who has just returned from the war on furlough. Both are supposed to go back, but he has managed to wangle himself some discharge papers so it is only “Lee” who has to return to the army - and hopefully as a married man. Scoot on a bit in their lives and we discover that “Julius” isn’t really the most reliable of gents. He has promised to go into business with his brother in California but en route, this itinerant gambler, finds himself winning, then fleeced, then employed in a casino trying to spot other cheats. That’s when he meets “Henry” (Diego Calva) and the pair are soon cavorting about in their tiny whities. Meantime, “Muriel” and “Lee” are making a go of things in California, but she’s unfulfilled. She works in a diner where she picks up some racing tips. Next thing, she has $12k hidden behind the mirror in their new home near where she encounters the enigmatic, egg-selling, “Sandra” (Sasha Calle). Next thing, well it seems that “Julius” has a sort of kindred spirit. What chance happiness for any of them, especially the decent is slightly pedestrian “Lee”? It does shine something of a light on societal attitudes to homosexuality in 1950s America, but not in any way that we haven’t seen many times before. The sex scenes look even more choreographed than you might have expected, with the Elordi/Calva scenes suggesting neither had cleaned their teeth beforehand and the former having the bed-sheets surgically Velcro’d to his waist. The story between DEJ and Calle isn’t really any more compelling nor characterfully played out and at just shy of two hours, I felt a bit short-changed by a concept that looked good on the tin but that was really just some A-list froth. Maybe that’s what to take away from this. The cast are at or on their way to the top in Hollywood so to play parts like this can only add some strings to their bows, but I found these to be selfish and rather unlikeable individuals portrayed by actors who imbued their personas with little beyond their own good looks. Very disappointing stuff, sorry.

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