Rock Hudson's Home Movies
- Director: Mark Rappaport
- Writer: Mark Rappaport
- Producer: Mark Rappaport
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What?!?
Not another Rappaport rant - yes, but this is insulting to Rock Hudson - and, it presents a fine case for a civil action.
Hudson's estate should be livid.
Rappaport has stretched his nonsense to breaking point.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Eric Farr speaks to the camera as if speaking Rock Hudson's words from a posthumous diary. Film clips from more than 30 Hudson films illustrate ways in which his sexual orientation played out on screen. First we see tenuous and unresolved relationships with women, then clips of Rock with men, cruising and circling. Next comes pedagogical Eros: Hudson with older men. We see Rock with his sidekicks, often Tony Randall. We look in depth at comedies of sexual embarrassment and innuendo: films in which Hudson sometimes plays two characters, "macho Rock and homo Rock." He's masculine yet vulnerable, a hunk who needs taking care of. Last come cinematic reflections on death.
Cast & Characters
Eric Farr as Narrator;
Marc Christian as Himself;
Gary Cooper;
Doris Day;
James Dean;
Kirk Douglas;
Phyllis Gates as Herself;
Rock Hudson as Himself;
Burl Ives;
Paula Prentiss as Abigail Page;
Tony Randall;
Elizabeth Taylor;
Jan-Michael Vincent;
John Wayne