Beautiful Thing (DVD 2001)

This is a very powerful film, dealing with homosexuality this is set in a gritty South London housing estate this makes an unlikely setting for a romantic fairy-tale, but Hattie MacDonald's gay teenage love story all but brings it off. Adapted by screenwriter Jonathan Harvey from his own stage play, Beautiful Thing tells how teenage loner Jamie falls for next-door neighbour Ste, one of the tough kids who bullies him at school. Amazingly, he finds his feelings reciprocated, and the two progresses to a tender, tentative affair.
Sidestepping conventional notions of working-class homophobia, the film succeeds in presenting its central relationship not as anything startlingly different, but simply as a teenage romance--with all the joy and heartbreak it implies--that happens to be between two 15-year-old guys.
Problems of brutality and deprivation are acknowledged but never allowed to dominate, and under the influence of love even the harsh walkways and terraces of the estate take on a sunlit glow.

I bought this because it's a great film plus this film is basically my life story of how it was for me when I was growing it shows the difficulty gay people have with trying to be accepted in the community plus the family part as well being gay myself I can understand the story which was told homophobia still exists but is getting better for gay people but you who care's what people think about us Gay Guys for me life is for living don't you think?

very funny dvd great film great acting love the film to bits one of the best dvds i have seen i got the dvd for xmas last year then i lost it so i was so glad that i saw the item on ebay

A heart warming story about inner city young (gay) love! Getting a bid dated now, but still warms you to the core!

Brilliant absolutly love it top rates a+++++ i would referre this to any one shows the true struggles of young men and how family can be your worst enemy when it comes to what you truely want but they can also be the people that help make you grow stronger.

i brought this for my best friend its one of his favourite films he thinks very highly of this film.

This is a great gay themed film about to young lads realising who they are, whats for them and is one film everyone loves it was ahead of its time (1990 ish) and is still great !

Classic film.Great story,excellent cast and acting and wonderful sound track.Bought on DVD to replace worn out tape.

This has to be one of the best films in refrence to gay ife when your young on the market today.
It gives in my mind a true insight to the problems faced in comeing out to friends or even family in your life as a gay teenager.
every time i watch this i cry and i laugh at the very touching scenes from steven being attacked by his brouther and father to being comforted by his mates mother next door to dateing his best friend and going on the scene for the first time in a gay venue.
All in all a very well made film and a real tear jerker to anybody who watches it no doubt time and time again.