Justin, a 17-year old entering his final year of high school, gets a job as a life guard at a fitness center. Surrounded by hard bodies of both sexes and instructed by his boss to keep an eye on the steam room to report any men having sex, Justin begins to divine the direction his erotic feelings point. In separate incidents, Vicky and Russell, two older co-workers, hit on him. He tries out responses to both, and then must figure out what to do with his new self-knowledge.
Direction
Sloan builds unbearable tension from glances and chlorine.
Acting
Weinstein's wordless confusion is devastatingly specific.
Director
Brian Sloan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 1990s New Queer Cinema boom, this short circulated in gay film festivals when mainstream distribution was nearly impossible for queer stories.
Director Brian Sloan expanded this into his 1998 feature 'I Think I Do,' essentially giving Justin a college reunion sequel nobody asked for but some deserved.
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