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Torch Song Trilogy
Directed by
Paul Bogart
R
1988
2h
Comedy
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Drama
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7.8
76%
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Arnold is a gay man working as drag queen in 1971 NYC. He meets a handsome bisexual man.
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Cast of Torch Song Trilogy
Harvey Fierstein
Arnold Beckoff / Writer
Matthew Broderick
Alan Simon
Anne Bancroft
Ma Beckoff
Brian Kerwin
Ed Reese
Eddie Castrodad
David
Lorry Goldman
Phil Beckoff
Ken Page
Murray
Karen Young
Laurel
Charles Pierce
Bertha Venation
Axel Lott
Marina Del Rey
Benji Schulman
Young Arnold
Nick Montgomery
Chorus Boy
Robert Neary
Chorus Boy
Kim Clark
Female Bar Patron
Stephanie Penn
Female Bar Patron
Geoffrey Harding
Man with Lighter
Michael Bond
Bar Patron
Michael Warga
Bartender
Phil Sky
Man in Back Room
Edgar Small
Arnold's Father
Harriet C. Leider
Maitre D'
Paul Joynt
Heckler in Club
Mitch Carter
Heckler in Club
Bob Minor
Gregory
Byron Deen
Roz
John Beckman
1st Cab Driver
Elliott T. Spar
Rabbi
Alva Chinn
Photographer
Gregory Gilbert
Hustler
John Norman
1st Basher
Mark Zeisler
2nd Basher
Peter MacKenzie
1st Young Man
Peter Nevargic
2nd Young Man
Ted Hook
Old Man
Niall Gartlan
Boy in Fight
Catherine Blue
Teacher
John Branagan
Teacher
Tracy Bogart
Secretary at School
Frits De Knegt
2nd Cab Driver
Michael Lindström
Show Guest (uncredited)
Paul Bogart
Director
Howard Gottfried
Producer
Torch Song Trilogy Ratings & Reviews
Alabama Forum
C.M.
You will love this movie. It will put you through the wringer and squeeze you dry, but you will leave the theater so much the better for having allowed to share in Arnold's life for a little while.
Our Own Community Press (Norfolk, VA)
A.C. Harrell
Torch Song Trilogy is a realistic slice of modern-day life.
Gay Community News (Boston)
Christopher Wittke
Fierstein has created a fine, funny work that manages to touch on love, lust, homophobia, gaybashing and the importance of pride and self-reliance.
Patheos
Eve Tushnet
Real people ascend to melodrama and descend to harangue in exactly these circumstances; more importantly, the film knows that melodrama and harangue don't deserve respect and yet they compel it here...
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A pleasant and sincere straightforward gay love story that is captivating and tender even if soppy in spots.
Variety
Variety Staff
Bracing in its frank depiction of gay sex life, both promiscuous and committed.
Moviehole
Caffeinated Clint
Matthew Broderick shows his versatility and might as an actor here
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A rousing screen version of the 1983 Tony Award-winning play.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Greatly shortened from Mr. Fierstein's long-running, Tony Award-winning play, the film version emphasizes the lovable at every turn, but the surprise is that it does this entertainingly and well.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
by turns raucously funny, tender, defiant, sad and hopeful. It is a movie that rises to something like greatness on the writing and acting -- and the charisma of its star.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I have not seen anyone quite like Fierstein in the movies, and the fact that he is a specific individual gives this material a charm and weight it might have lacked if an interchangeable actor had played the role.
TheFilmFile.com
Dustin Putman
An earnest, emotionally accurate, but seriously flawed drama.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The themes are universal, and Arnold is an Everyperson who wants to be loved not for what others want him to be, but for what he really is -- "a person, a valuable person."
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Simply viewed as a movie about people, Torch Song Trilogy has the kind of wit, grace, and intense feeling that Woody Allen tried for unsuccessfully in Interiors, September, and Another Woman...
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