Product Description

Sleeping with your best friend s sexy father is it every gay man s secret fantasy or the ultimate betrayal? When college jock Tyler invites good mate Chase (Charlie David - Dante's Cove) to stay with his family over the summer vacation, what is supposed to be a carefree holiday, suddenly takes a strange turn, when Tyler s father is forced to confront his burgeoning sexuality in the face of his attraction to this striking new visitor.

Alliances will be tested and boundaries drawn as the family comes to terms with the implications of each new revelation. Dream come true or unforgivable disloyalty ? Perhaps the answer is both in this consistently surprising drama.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5704 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-09-14
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 87 minutes

Synopsis
Sweet, smart, and funny, Mulligans is more than a poignant family drama; more than a coming out movie. College jock Tyler brings his best friend, aspiring artist Chase, to his family's lakeside home for vacation. The Davidson family welcomes Chase but as the summer blossoms, unexpected attractions flare. Tyler's Mother Stacey tries to keep it all together while Tyler's Dad Nathan valiantly struggles with his long suppressed sexuality.

Customer Reviews

Four! (Well, five at least)
Great story line, very good acting, interesting extras. A real treat for Dante's Cove addicts, too! (What? Don't know Dante's Cove? Check it out!!) Never actually fancied the fathers of any of my friends, but an interesting and sensitive film which has more layers than first meets the eye. Here! productions are first - rate, and it's a real shame we don't have a channel like that in the U.K.

Cinematic bling
'Mulligans'' theme is supposed to be deep emotional trauma. You wouldn't believe it, once you watched the film. 'Shallow', 'superficial' and 'flimsy' sprung to mind as how to rate this cinematic bling. Storyline: dishy Tyler (cast way too old to pass for an 18 year old student), invites his best mate Chase (also dishy and badly cast, age-wise) into his parental home to spend a summer holiday. Perfect 1.4 children-family, making do with all the basics their house provides, according to mother Stacey. In fact theirs is a countryhouse with vast grounds, private pond and a fully equipped golf course. Except for little sis Birdie, everyone has their own car and Chase is provided with a private cottage on the estate. It is in these lavish surroundings Chase chooses to come out to Tyler. Tyler is shocked for two seconds, swallows hard and turns the charm back on by acting politically correct. So do Stacey and sis, but not dad Nathan. Nathan adds fuel to fire by discovering his own homosexuality. It takes him less than a minute to come to terms with being gay. This hurdle taken, he fondles Chase, kisses Chase and takes up naked swimming together. Of course everything has to be hush hush. We musn't rock the boat, must we? But that boat is being rocked the next day when Stacey spots hubby kissing Chase in the estate's forest. 25 years of happy marriage go down the drain and all involved don't know whether they're coming or going. Mum Stacey saves the day by offering some sagacious words and pieces of pie. Unrealisticly level headed, each decide to deal with this tragedy in their own way. Chase rides off on a bus into the sunset, Nathan rides off in his car 'to think' and Tyler, along with Birdie and Stacey, sit down at the dinnertable, problably eating more pie.
If this picture is anything to by, shrinks would be massively on the dole and the turnout of anti-depressants would come to a standstill. Stacey's wisdom and pie would have had the clouds chased away in no time. We all know it doesn't work like that. People repress, suffer, battle, seek mental help, commit suicide or spend years changing lifestyles over non-mainstream sexual orientation. Had only a fragment of these verbs been processed in the interactions, 'Mulligans' would have been valuable viewing. Alas, it turned out to be commonplace and hackneyed, due to overall slickness. Two stars go to the cast. They did a great job making something out of nothing.

painful
Fluff of the highest order and not in the good way! This really was facile representation of serious issues, dressed up in glossy sheeny hallmark card type epithets. The acting only went a little way to make more of what was a purile plot - all cast miscast apart from the father who warranted a freeze frame. What is it with gay movies that the basic premise warrants such effort and then falls flat on its face? I had to watch most of it from behind my hand as I winced with pain.