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Release Date: 1998-08-13
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TMDB Rating: 6.2/10 from 70 votes on TMDB
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Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. While all of this is going on, he's facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities.
Tagline:Full on. All night. Come on.
Release Date: 1998-08-13
Movie Revenue: $378667
Movie Runtime: 104
Language: English, Greek, Italian
Head On was released on 13 August 1998. It is a Drama film with a running time of 104 minutes. Produced in Australia. You can find full details on Head On, including cast, trailers and UK streaming availability, right here on Filmoria.
Filmoria's Take: Audience reaction has been solid without being universal. It has had time to find its audience by now. Fits naturally alongside the other Drama titles on Filmoria.
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Alex Dimitriades is "Ari" - a young Greek man whose family emigrated to live in Melbourne, where he is struggling to get job. To kill time, he hangs around with his mates snorting cocaine and - on the quiet - meeting men for casual sex. It's not really a "gay" film; it is a much broader analysis of a young man with neither the roots of his country, nor of a relationship to help him through his rather meaningless existence. His community is trying to straddle their need to honour their homeland traditions whilst adapting to the "tolerances" of their new home - brought to a head by some fairly grisly homophobic behaviour all round in the last twenty minutes or so. Demitriades is fine, as is Paul Capsis as his openly gay/transvestite cousin "Johnny" but the rest of the cast seem there to reinforce the stereotypes and therefore add little to any meaningful dialogue. To be honest, it could be a depiction of any immigrant culture in any country - and falls a bit flat as "Ari" seems ultimately rather deserving of his shallow existence...
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