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Marred by sluggish script and Verow's inability to either direct actors or cast ones whose thesping ability matches their good looks.
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Todd Verow's overstuffed Vacationland promises more than it delivers in just about every sense.
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Though Verow attended the American Film Institute and has made more than a dozen shorts and features since 1994, his low-budget gay-themed films are characterized by phenomenal indifference to framing, sound quality and performance. If his relentless amateurishness is deliberate, it's self-defeating; if not, it's inexplicable: Most people who do anything for more than a decade get better at it.
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A generic coming-of-age movie whose arrival on the scene suggests that the audience for gay indie clunkers is inexhaustible.
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The autobiographical script meanders and the acting never solidifies. Besides, the leads look too old to be in high school - maybe even college.
