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List Price: $24.95 | | Label: Wolfe Video
Salesrank: 12087
Released: April 30, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Back home henry confronts his unrequited passion for his high school best friend and his feelings about being gay in a small town. As henry works through his emotions the townspeople quietly conspire to help him along until henry realizes new possibilties for both friendship and romance. Studio: Wolfe Video Release Date: 04/30/2002 Run time: 117 minutes Rating: Pg13
Description of Big Eden:
Big Eden has won the audience awards at just about every gay and lesbian film festival there is. Henry (Arye Gross) is an artist living in New York but still carrying a torch for the guy he had a crush on in high school. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry returns to his Montana hometown, Big Eden, where he rediscovers friends he hasn't seen in years. His high school crush has since married, had children, and divorced--and seems ready to take some very different steps with his life. Big Eden is one of those implausibly tolerant towns where lesbians kiss each other in public and old coots in cowboy hats try to play matchmaker with bashful queers. Still, it's this sweet warmth in Big Eden that has made it a festival crowd-pleaser. --Bret Fetzer
Big Eden Reviews:
Romantic Comedy 
2009-11-27 - A wonderful romantic comedy where being gay is just a normal part of the landscape. Beautiful cinematography filmed in and around Glacier National Park.
Love, family, friends and Relationships
2009-11-19 - I, too viewed Big Eden on the Logo online. I also ordered the DVD from Amazon.com. I have seen this movie many times and I intend to view it many more times!
The director, Mr. Bezucha did such an outstanding job with his characters and the sensitive way in telling us this story. I also applaud all the people working with Mr. Bezucha in making this movie.
The movie is about family, friends, relationships and Love.
Places like Big Eden do exist. Sometimes you have to search very hard to find such a place. If you are unable to find such a place then look within your self. If you're full of love, you will find it there.
Thank you Mr. Bezucha for reminding us about the meaning of the greatest gift that we have on this earth, Love.
Miss Ella.
The best movie ever
2009-09-20 - This movie is so wonderful on many levels: exploring small-town dynamics, a love story, a look at modern relationships...every time I watch Big Eden it is an experience. What I most like about the movie is its almost dream-like state of the perfect town, accepting everyone regardless of who they are. That is the power of the movie...yes two men fall in love at the end, but Big Eden shows that gay couple have the same emotional ups and downs as straight couples...but love triumphs always.
This is not a Gay movie
2009-08-03 - This movie is a story about the support of family and friends in a small town. You'll laugh, you'll cry, and you'll fall in love with each unique character represented in the town of Big Eden. And yes there is a love story between two men. But instead of two men, you see two people who were once lonely find hope and happiness.
For lovers and romantics of all ages
2009-02-23 - Big Eden is a romantic hope and fantasy for beautiful souls that enshrouds you within a gentle cocoon from the opening moments and slowly transforms you as it unfolds.
Yes, you do realize it is make-believe, but the performances, what performances. You are drawn inside their story in spite, no make that because, of yourself and your experiences. The writing is good, though a bit one-dimensional, yet it is the actors, their chemistry and abilities which shine here. It is they, the directing and the cinematography which craft this magical place. A place where everybody is surrounded by and accepted by love. Big Eden where everybody is just who and as they are with the bullies and lechers products of pulp novelists and bad dreams.
The lush and loving caresses of the scenery by the camera shots, the wide-pans, the long-shots, groups shots, fades and the silhouettes, well, they all amount to a striking artistry and taken together they are akin to a big happy pill. An immense shot of oxygen. The final and perfect chords of an ensemble chorale.
Even after more than thirty viewings, it never becomes stale or anticipatory as it unreels before you. It becomes the best beats of life's heart and as vital. In so many ways and wishes it is the best hopes for life and love. One reviewer compared it, I thought unkindly so, to "Pretty Woman" yet after reflection, I understand what they saw in a way. I cannot speak to their experiences, but as a gay man this is akin to "KISMET" or "MY FAIR LADY" because Henry had to first recognize the language of love to be able to see it around him.
For lovers and romantics of all ages, I do recommend this film.
Big Eden
