ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

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Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

lastliberal Writer/director Tommy Stovall's first and only film is worth the time to watch for a very good story and some great characters.Brian J. Smith does his first film as Trey, partner of Robbie (Seth Peterson). Trey is the victim of a hate crime, presumably at the hands of the religious kook who just move in next door. Turns out this isn't his first hate crime, but no one locked him away after the last one.Cindy Pickett does an outstanding job as Trey's mother, and Bruce Davison is perfect as the pastor and the father of the kook. Granny Boone (Lin Shaye) is also present as a neighbor, and you just have to love her character.The police did not seem interested in finding the person who beat and killed Trey, so it was up to Robbie to find out what happened. Some secrets get exposed, and a killer is found and dealt with in a manner where it could be said that justice is served.

donaldsmedley For movie night tonight we have chosen Hate Crime. What a disappointing and lack luster movie this turned out to be. I have lost 100mins of my life that i will never get back. To its credit there are some positives: * Gay characters that fit into society like in reality. They aren't cliché queenies. * A clever twist to finish it off. Now why didn't they put this creativity into the other 80mins of the movie. * Closets are usually gay themselves. I love this revelation and believe this to be true in most instances of homophobia. A great expose of the psychological dynamics of straight s who hate gays. Now the negatives: * The movie evolves so slow i started to focus on the irritating texture of the couch covers i was sitting on while watching this. * Characters lack depth, i had no emotional connection. So when the tragic pivotal event occurred I decided to make a cup of coffee. * Its like a B grade thriller. With little build up and suspense. I was never participating in the movie itself. * This movie's content is created by the intolerance of one way of thought to another. Yet portrays intolerance itself in it's journey. ie. Church mongers hate gays. Horrible events occur. Church people are closeted gays who hate gays!. As a gay man this film has a responsibility because of its content which it clearly ignores. "I don't put down others to make myself feel better". The content base is controversial. Though this movie is not the movie to depict it. Stay Clear...

rejandgbj Greating's from Toronto. I went to see Hate Crime a couple times while it played here.The questions and answers do not lie in whether or not it is a "GAY FILM" or a "Gay Guy Get's Revenge".It's about yet another "Religious Based Hatred ". As a gay community we had better start holding our Faith Leader's accountable for the continued festering of bias, intolerance,social injustice.And as a straight community you ought to take a close look at what your children are being led to believe ,wheather at school,home ,church,or socially.Hate Crime is a brilliant depiction of the times we continue to live in,with Religious intolerance and condemnation of anyone or anything that does not fit in with the strategy of Divine power and control.Are we not strong enough as a people and one race under humanity to insist that our Religious Leader's and politicians 'practice what they preach '.Good on Hate Crime.People ,who are teaching your children to hate ?Not the gay community. I would urge anyone from Toronto to LA ,see or at least research Hate Crime.Judge it for how it makes you feel about where we are socially.Take one week and listen to people all around you as you live your life.Explore what makes people say ,i hate him ,her,it ,they .Go back and read about or see Hate Crime again.Are your original feelings or fear's your's or did someone teach you them?It's easy to hate and i believe Hate Crime will force you think LIKE IT OR NOT.

AndytheDirector I projected this movie last year when it was shown at a film fest I was working at. This is THE STUPIDEST type of movie I have ever seen. It's a Lifetime Channel movie, only with a vengeful lover instead of a vengeful wife. If there was just one substitution made, the gay couple for an interracial couple, you would have a terrible wannabe social commentary film.The film follows Robbie, who's lover Trey is bludgeoned with a baseball bat one night, as he tries to solve the crime and prove it was his hyper-Evangelic loony neighbor. What follows is a bunch of conundrums wrapped in a McGuffin of an idiotic ending. If this movie was trying to make a point in the pantheon of gay cinema, its that there can be moronic thrillers that play on stereotypes from gay people too. If you want a good movie, see something else. If you want to have you want a hate crime committed on you so to end the pain of this mind-numbing dreck, rent this idiotic mystery.