Latter Days Page #6

Synopsis: Aaron Davis (Steve Sandvoss) and Christian Markelli (Wes Ramsey) are perhaps the two most opposite people in the world. Aaron is a passionate young Elder (a Mormon missionary) who wants to do his family and church proud. Christian is a shallow West Hollywood waiter/party boy who only looks forward to what man the next night will bring to him. After Aaron and three other Elders move into the apartment across from his, Christian's friends make a bet that he can't get one of them into the sack, so he instantly latches onto Aaron, suspecting there is more than meets the eye to him. There are two problems, though: Christian finds himself questioning his own identity as he falls in love with Aaron and the Mormon Church treats homosexuality as a sinful lifestyle. When Aaron's burgeoning sexuality is discovered, they will have to go through trials of regret, loss, perseverance, and forgiveness if they want to get to the thing that matters to them most: each other.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): C. Jay Cox
Production: TLA Releasing
  3 wins.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
45
Rotten Tomatoes:
45%
R
Year:
2003
107 min
Website
329 Views


Hello?

Julie Taylor?

Um... so is that Clive with a D of Clive with a V

Oh well.. it's official... winter's here

Bundle up

Ah... much better

So... guess what...this A and R guy from the record company

has been totally coy about which team he plays on..

when I introduce you, you can totally nail him

and set the record straight

well... so to speak

I go pass on this one...

You know... why? he is totally cute, I'm serious

What's wrong with you...

you know, you haven't been yourself since...

wait... are you still not over missionary man?

I don't know

Chris

It's weird with him disappearing like that

OK... wel then stop moping like a schoolgirl and

do something about it, call him...

Just dial 1-800-TORTURED MORMON?

Probably sounds they've got enough of them

But I think you should just get the hell over it

Maybe I don't want to

I mean LA is a city where everyone dances with

one eye on the door...

like we're all waiting for something better to walk in

Who would even recognize it if it did?

It would be nice to stop circling

It would be nice to stop equating sex with a handshake

And it would be nice to have it mean something

Listen to you, you are turning into a chick

Shut up!

You are! Wait Christian wait, seriously you dropped something

What?

Your balls! Must have fallen over under somewhere

This is me not talking to you

OK wait but you're still coming to the show tonight, right?

As president of the Pocatello stake it is my unhappy duty

and obligation to convene this church court on behalf of the Elder

Aaron Davis for grave and grievous sin of homosexuality

In the light of your abnormal and abonimable state

and your refusal to see you have been duped

into a hogwash alternative lifestyle..

I wish my shame was enough for both of us

not to mention the shame you brought to this church..

a family... our ancestors...

Wait a minute our ancestors?

Dad...your grandfather had half a dozen wifes

Same goes for every single person in this room...

I'd say we were the original definition of alternative lifestyle

Are you calling us hypocrites?

No we've gone way beyond hypocracy Dad,

now we're just being mean

With the authority invested in me by

the Melchizedek priesthood

and in the name of Jesus Christ I have no choice

but to begin excommunication proceedings against you

at witch point you will be stripped of the priesthood...

the garments... and membership in this church

Still at it?

There are a lot of Davises up there

Hi, I'm trying to reach an Aaron Davis

No not Errol.. AARON...two A's...

Hi, I'm looking for Aaron Davis...

No, he didn't win anything...

No no no, he is younger than that...

Does he have a son named Aaron?

No! Yeah! Let me talk to your wife

Hi, hello I'm looking for an Aaron Davis

What? The Davis Boy, yeah that sounds like him

No, he's not in anymore trouble...

What kind of trouble?

I'm sorry... I'm not trying to pry

Ferron Davis can you spell that?

On Stone Creek... really...Thank you so much

Buck Owens... really... they still run that?

OK, well you get back to it now

OK, thank you

Hello?

I'm sorry, brother Davis is down at the Stake Center

Oh, I'm sorry... Aaron?

May I ask why you are trying to reach Aaron?

Los Ang... are you one of the Elders in Los Angeles?

No...you know what, my son has no desire to speak to you

and I hope you could have the decency not to call here again

Is Dad missing dinner again?

Oh it's nothing but he sure is late over at the Stake Center...

there is no point in this getting cold

If you are just gonna play with it...

I don't know why I bother anymore

Julie! get out here... I found him

You talked to him?

No, his mother hung up on me

Um... b*tch!

No, but if he really did not want to

talk to me then she really would not

have had a problem putting

him on the phone, right?

And next time he will probably pick up

Damn girl I didn't know getting hung up on

makes me feel so good

Good! Then we're going out because you

have been a contrary mary way too long

Did something fall again?

Yeah, just a little dropsy... you go on

Mum?

Mum...

What Aaron

What?

It's nothing I just wanted to see if you

bring yourself to look at me

I'm looking at you... what am I suppose to be seeing

Nothing

His name was Christian, wasn't it

What?

Is Christian the one?

What did he do to you!

He loved me

Don't say that! Do you know how ridiculous that sounds?

How repulsive that is to God to everyone?

Two men? Men don't love Aary...

women bring love to a relationship.

But Ma he told me he loved me...

He would have told you anything

He flattered and beguiled you... tools of the devil

that's what they do

You don't know that

Yes I do

You don't know that

I do... you know why? Because when you didn't arrive home...

I called your mission president

You checked up on me huh?

I was worried sick about you.. and you know what he said?

Your missionary companion told him that that Christian

person... you were nothing more than a bet he made

That's not true...

Yes it is true.. he won your soul for a lousy 50 dollars

That's all you were worth to him and you know what?

He's probably forgotten all about you

and now he's moving on to his next fornication

Mum he wouldn't..

It meant nothing to him, he was using you and that is why...

you can never think about him again, ever... ever again

You got... you have got to put this thing behind you

this horrible mistake that everybody knows about...

You've seen how they look at us

You've seen how people just turn their carts around

when we walk down the isle in the market...

and how they look away at the bank

Why do you think your father doesn't come home anymore?

What if it is not something I've done...

what if it's who I am?

Don't say that. Don't you ever even think that!

You can be forgiven...maybe heavenly Father can forgive

you for what you've done but who you are...

He could never forgive something like that.

You know... I think I am going to heat up that casserole

with the cream and mushroom soup

Where are you going?

I left some stuff down the church...

Now? We just got back!

Our son... we've just come back from...

As good a time as any

Hello?

Mrs Davis.. listen, I know you don't want me to speak with your son

My son? Let me tell you something you son of a b*tch

Thanks to you my son took a razor to his wrists

Thanks to you I have lost my son

And I hope you burn, I hope you burn for ever!

Chris?

Sit down

Drink that

Toss it

That way it's medicinal

Good it's vital for a man to have a couple of

slugs in him before discussing heart ache

I think Hemingway told me that...

You knew Ernest Hemingway?

Margot actually

But beauties don't always escape tragedy

Oh God, this is hell...

I've done something

I'm guilty...

and I'll burn for it

Funny thing about guilt... there is nothing so bad that you

can't add a little guilt to it and make it worse

and there is nothing so good you can't add a little guilt to it

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