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A young boxer from Blackpool (played by British amateur featherweight champion Steve Bell) finds love and disillusionment in London's gay clubland in first-time director Paul Oremland's refreshingly good-natured production. Ian Rose is the record producer naive Bell follows to Soho after a one night stand, only to face harsh realities in the big city. Roger Daltrey is Rose's predatory boss and Dani Behr Daltrey's latest singing discovery, and both see Bell as a threat. Slightly awkward, yet refusing to fall into the cliché traps that often handicap gay dramas, this is the same old “coming out” story but done with a light, naturalistic charm and without any preaching. Rather good of its type.

This so-so first feature gets away with casting Behr as a disco diva and Daltrey as an amoral record company boss.... read more on Time Out