Love and Death on Long Island
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Love and Death on Long Island

Love and Death on Long Island

6.3/ 10

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1998

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93 min

Runtime

Drama
Romance

Overview

Curmudgeonly author Giles De'Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead finds himself watching a tacky teen sex comedy. Yet when the beautiful Ronnie Bostock appears on the movie screen, Giles finds himself caught in a whirlwind of unanswered questions about both his own sexuality and his place in late 20th-century society.

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Keywords

obsession
long island, new york
love
writer
infatuation
obsessive love
gay theme

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

September 7, 2025

7
7/10

“Giles De’Ath” (John Hurt) is a rather reclusive writer who has largely shunned publicity until he goes to the cinema and inadvertently finds himself watching a piece of throwaway teen nonsense starring heartthrob “Ronnie” (Jason Priestly). For reasons that he can’t immediately explain this recently

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