My First Suit

1986
30m

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A teenage boy is caught between his recently-separated parents. They each want to buy him his first suit, but his own burgeoning self-image differs very much from both of theirs.A teenage boy is caught between his recently-separated parents. They each want to buy him his first suit, but his own burgeoning self-image differs very much from both of theirs.A teenage boy is caught between his recently-separated parents. They each want to buy him his first suit, but his own burgeoning self-image differs very much from both of theirs.

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ArchObler

Heartfelt but badly conceived

A teenage boy is encouraged to go to a dance and have a girlfriend by his separated parents, but he secretly likes men. There is a bleakly moving father-son conversation that contrasts fatally with irritating over the top scenes involving a fruity clothes store manager and the boy's goofy sexual fantasies. **1/2 out of ****

7Havan_IronOak

Young gay man in New Zealand

Steve is a young New Zealand boy who is about to attend his first high school dance. Although his recently separated parents both insist on buying him his first suit, he finds himself fanaticizing about men rather than the `Sheila's' that his parent both go on about.

While his mother insists on dwelling on his blemishes (spots) and dwells on his skin breaking out, he's more concerned with coming out (at least to himself).

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Made for groundbreaking 1985 New Zealand television series About Face, for which the New Zealand Film Commission funded seven up-and-coming independent filmmakers to make seven distinct 30 minute dramas. Series also includes Jewel's Darl (1986) by Peter Wells.