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| Raising Heroes | 
 enlarge | Director: Douglas Langway
Actors: Troy Sostillio, Henry White, Edmond Sorel, Stewart Groves, Chandra Pointer
Studio: Water Bearer Films, Inc
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $17.10
You Save: $12.85 (43%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 73144
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Special Edition, Subtitled
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 85
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 759259140257
EAN: 0759259140257
ASIN: B00006ADFJ
Theatrical Release Date: 1996
Release Date: August 22, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED
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Product Description
Director Doug Langway turns the action genre on its heels with the independent hit Raising Heroes- the world's first gay action movie! Josh and Paul are a happy, successful gay couple just three days away from the most important event of their lives- adopting a son. Everything goes smoothly until Josh is witness to a brutal murder and quickly becomes the next target on the mob's hit list, hurling both men into a world of deadly deciept, double crosses and vicious violence. With everyone around them in danger, and the final court hearing only days away, Josh and Paul must fight their way to safety if their dreams of having a family are to come true- culminating in an explosive, bullet riddled showdown that pushes their relationship, and lives, to the limit. Raw, low-budget, and featuring stylized gunplay in the John Woo vein, RAISING HEROES turns all action movie cliches upside down, and in the true independent spirit, both reinvents and reveres its Hollywood inspiration.
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 It is on DVD. April 19, 2005
For the customer who thought that the film is not out on DVD,it is. Look again, but this time, look in the DVD section.
 Gays with guns; now thats a new twist September 9, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Paul & Josh are about to adopt Nikki; the son of a friend of Paul who died of cancer and willed, that Paul and Josh, a gay couple, raise her son; but her mother,(Nikkies grandmother) is challenging the will and attempting to thart the adoption and raise the boy herself.
A court in New Jersey has set a date in three days for the adoption hearing; and on his way home from work Josh witnesses a mob hit in a deli and then flees home in terror. Now the mob is after Josh and wants to rub him out so as not to rat out the hitman. Afraid to upset his partner Paul and to jeopardize the adoption of Nikki, Josh refrains from telling his partner and reporting the incident to the police. The mob send the son of the mob boss to "silence" Josh; a scuffle occurs in Joshes apartment and Josh pushes the assasin out the window and is killed from the fall. Now the mob boss wants revenge and has Paul kidna pped in an effort to lure Josh into an ambushed. theres a twist in the plot, and so I dont want to reveal the entire movie as not to spoil the ending, but Paul and Josh servive a shoot out and win custody of Nikki in the end.
The screenplay has potental, but didn't seem believable. this is due in part, at least, in my opnion, because it was written, produced, directed, and edited, by the same individual; and this causes a lack of dimension. What I did like is that Paul is an older man who is overweight and Josh is the younger good looking partner; this seemed to add more realism to the story; compared to say a couple of fit and trim hollywood pretty boys as lovers.
The movie was made in 1997; but the cinematopraphy appeared to be made from the 1970's and this distracts from the quality of this production; and the plot begs to be written in a more sophfisticated manner. The acting was good, but you get the feeling that the whole film needed a little more work; but by no means was it a failure.
The film promoters claims this as the first openly gay action adventure story. It is a genre worth developing.
Thanks for reading my review; I hope it was of some help to you.
Jerry Balmes
Queerness never looked so gay on screen February 7, 2002
3 out of 9 found this review helpful
It is impossible to describe how beautiful and gay this film is in the space provided,so I will make this short. Rasin Heroes is a beautiful gay masterpeice. Everything from the gay relationship between our heros and the suspencful ending is absolutely incredible. Gayness at its best. I just pray this masterpiece comes out on DVD real soon.
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