6. Latter Days

A relationship between a Mormon missionary in denial about his homosexuality and an openly gay man who lives next door sounds more like a drama than it does a comedy, but the story is played out for laughs in this romantic comedy from 2003. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is present in one of his smaller early film roles, but the bulk of the action goes to the leading pair of Steve Sandvoss and Wes Ramsey.

As we've seen with many other gay-themed films, this movie initially struggled to achieve distribution to cinemas. It couldn't even find a place at a mainstream film festival, premiering instead at the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian film festival in 2003 and slowly growing in reputation from there. It slowly made its way into American cinemas territory by territory over the course of the following year, and then out into the wider world.

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