This week on a special Pride episode of The Binge, Rebecca and Jason reminisce about growing up gay as ’90s teens in small Midwestern towns and celebrate the queer films that served as their cultural lifelines. Alphabetically, those movies are:
All Over Me | cast: Alison Folland, Tara Subkoff, Leisha Hailey, Ann Dowd, Cole Hauser, Wilson Cruz, Shawn Hatosy, Vincent Pastore | screenplay: Sylvia Sichel | director: Alex Sichel [Amazon: physical only]
Beautiful Thing | cast: Glen Berry, Scott Neal, Linda Henry, Tameka Empson | screenplay: Jonathan Harvey | director: Hettie McDonald [Amazon: physical only]
Bound | cast: Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Pantoliano, Christopher Meloni | writer/directors: Lilly and Lana Wachowski [iTunes]
The Celluloid Closet | narrator: Lily Tomlin | directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman [iTunes]
High Art | cast: Ally Sheedy, Radha Mitchell, Patricia Clarkson, Gabriel Mann | writer/director: Lisa Cholodenko [iTunes]
If These Walls Could Talk 2 | cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Giamatti, Michelle Williams, Chloë Sevigny, Natasha Lyonne, Nia Long, Sharon Stone, Ellen DeGeneres, Regina King, Kathy Najimy | screenplay: Jane Anderson, Alex Sichel, Sylvia Sichel, Anne Heche | directors: Jane Anderson, Martha Coolidge, Anne Heche [Amazon: physical only]
The Opposite of Sex | cast: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Ivan Sergei, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki | writer/director: Don Roos [iTunes]
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