Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival 2009

Let's just call him X, a well-seasoned gay hustler with a string of steady johns. X is all business on the outside, the consummate professional---he's good for anything that pays and anything that pays is good. But  X is a romantic with his own secret dreams of enduring love, a secret that  frustrates both him and his improvised family---roommates Andrew, a sweet-but-coming-out-of-the-closet case, and Joey, a teenaged slut.  When X meets a new client, a sophisticated older man interested in teasing out X’s romantic side, X's professionalism is tested and his life is turned---in the most sexy way possible---upside down.   Adapting Philip Pierce’s incisive screenplay with panache, Brocka exhibits admirable range, offering a mix of irony, pathos and so much of the freaking yumminess that is Boy Culture. --Shannon Kelley