A Road to Home is a documentary that follows six LGBTQ youth over a year and a half as they navigate being homeless. Their lives are a snapshot of what about 500,000 young people in America go through every single night, and it's a huge wake-up call to realize that 40% of those kids are part of the LGBTQ community. The film takes this heavy subject and introduces us to six young adults, showing us how they ended up on the streets and how they eventually found community centers that stepped up to provide housing, food, school, and even help finding jobs. We also get to meet the people running these organizations who are right there backing these kids up every step of the way. And given that the documentary is set in my home city, it makes it all the more relatable for me. The six people the documentary focuses on are honestly the perfect choice for this story. They all have really sad backstories about how they ended up where they are, but there’s so much warmth and hope in t...
This film was supposed to be a low budget comedy with mob plots. It could have been interesting but there was something that was missing from the film. Maybe I will figure that out by the time i have finished writing this review. I would also like to mention that this is not primarily a gay cinema. There is an important gay couple and an important character but that itself does not make this film qualified for gay cinema but I can still review it here. A good old boy from the middle-class suburbs of Atlanta becomes indebted to the mob. Randy is about as American as baseball and apple pie. Randy's wife is a clinically depressed baton teacher who also suffers from a painful case of carpal tunnel syndrome, and his identical twin brother, Cecil, is openly homosexual. When Randy runs into financial trouble, he seeks a quick fix by borrowing money from some local mobsters. Unfortunately for Randy, all his businesses are still making very little money. Franco, a loan shark for the mob, w...