SPARKLE trailer

Sparkle is not at its heart a gay film, but if yournknow the work of Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsingerrn(Lawless Heart, Boyfriends), or if you like watching arngood film with a queer sensibility, then you'll love it. 22-year-old Liverpudlian Sam (Shaun Evans, whornplayed a gay character in Teachers) comes down tornLondon with his cabaret-singing dotty mother to changernhis life for the better. Serving drinks at a party, hernhooks up with Sheila, a powerful PR boss in a pair ofrnhigh-heeled boots (played by the fabulous StockardrnChanning, need we say more). But when he also beginsrnan affair with a younger woman, life begins to getrnjust a little complicated. Sparkle is a warm, funnyrnfilm with great performances throughout (look out forrnAntony Head as a sardonic stately British homo and BobrnHoskins as a lovable loner). Bring your hanky...rnA Vertigo Films release of an Isle of Man Film, BakerrnStreet, U.K. Film Council presentation, in associationrnwith North West Vision and BBC Films, of a Magic LightrnPictures production. (International sales: BeyondrnFilms, Sydney.) Produced by Martin Pope, Michael Rose.rnExecutive producers, Steve Christian, Keith Evans,rnSteve Jenkins, Christopher Moll, Paul Trijbits.rnDirected, written by Neil Hunter, Tom Hunsinger.

From honivy on Jul 21, 2007