Torch Song Trilogy 1988 123movies

Watch: Torch Song Trilogy 1988 123movies, Full Movie Online – Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein re-creates his role as the unsinkable Arnold Beckoff in this film adaptation of the smash Broadway play TORCH SONG TRILOGY. A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker’s search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him. From Arnold’s hilarious steps toward domestic bliss with a reluctant school teacher, to his first truly promising love affair with a young fashion model, Arnold’s greatest challenge remains his complicated relationship with his mother. But armed with a keenly developed sense of humor and oftentimes piercing wit, Arnold continues to test the commonly accepted terms of endearment–and endurance–in a universally affecting story that confirms that happiness is well worth carrying a torch for..
Plot: A very personal story that is both funny and poignant, TORCH SONG TRILOGY chronicles a New Yorker’s search for love, respect and tradition in a world that seems not especially made for him.
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Ratings:

	7.7/10 Votes: 7,417
	75% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 76 Popularity: 5.016 | TMDB

Reviews:

Preaching to the Converted, but How Sweet it Is
TST is like Harvey Fierstein himself: you love it or you loathe it; I love it. Preachy and heavy-handed as “Torch” is at times, it’s also a brilliant, hilarious, and truly heartfelt look at how gay men love each other and their families. Arnold Beckoff, like Harvey, apologizes to no one for who and what he his, and his pride is infectious. And Matthew Broderick, as Arnold’s model lover, has never been more appealing.

Touching, funny, sad and human
A notable film on several levels. First, it was way ahead of America in being a relatively mainstream film that treated gay men as people of depth, value, humor and worth making a film about. (Although there is sad irony in the fact this huge hit play took so long to make it to the screen that AIDS had already totally altered the landscape by the time of its release. That’s something the film only notes in the closing credits, and gives it a bit of a ‘rose colored glasses’ hue).

But beyond any politics or social significance this is also a very well acted, funny and moving look at one man, Arnold, (played by the unique and charismatic Harvey Firestein, who wrote the play and screenplay) as he looks for love – both romantic and familial in a sometimes very cold world. If Firestein’s performance can occasionally feel theatrical, it’s also entirely appropriate for the starting-to-age drag queen performer he plays. What’s wonderful is how Firestein always keeps the humanity under Arnold’s occasional flamboyance very alive, as does Anne Bancroft as his ‘difficult’ mother. Later in her career Bancroft could tend towards theatricality on screen as well, but she tones it down just enough to feel real here, and anyway, lets face it, next to a drag queen, who is more innately dramatic than a Jewish mother? (I grew up with one, trust me).

Matthew Broderick and Brian Kerwin also do very good work in support, Broderick as a sexy but understated young man totally at ease with his sexuality, and Kerwin as a confused bi- sexual trying to work out his. While never rising to the level of a great film (the direction is very straightforward and bland, there’s almost a TV movie look to it, it never completely surpasses it’s theatrical origins), it’s certainly a good, touching, human, and important one – although to a generation growing up with the reality of gay marriage and deeper integration of gay people into society, some of the historical importance may be lost. But not the essential, timeless embrace of kindness, love, respect and understanding

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr (120 min), 1 hr 54 min (114 min) (Brazil)
Budget 0
Revenue 4865997
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director Paul Bogart
Writer Harvey Fierstein
Actors Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein
Country United States
Awards 1 win & 3 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm