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"Love now."

Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they embark on a new relationship. But a tragic event in the past involving their mothers soon comes to light and threatens to tear them apart.

Top Cast

  • Matthew Frias

    Matthew Frias

    Benny Cruz

  • Edmund Donovan

    Edmund Donovan

    Christopher Welling

  • Andréa Burns

    Andréa Burns

    Lenora Cruz

  • Amy da Luz

    Amy da Luz

    Carol Welling

  • Joseph Melendez

    Joseph Melendez

    David Cruz

  • Isabel Rose Machado

    Isabel Rose Machado

    Becca Cruz

  • Cailan Rose

    Cailan Rose

    Julie

Overview

Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they embark on a new relationship. But a tragic event in the past involving their mothers soon comes to light and threatens to tear them apart.

Rating

7.2 / 10
171 Reviews
1 Popular

1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    6 Oct 10, 2025

    A gentle romance based on a slightly far-fetched premiss. Two young men become friends after a game of mud ball; their relationship blossoms until they go on a trip together and discover a shared tragedy in their past that tests the relationships with themselves and their families. It's a low-budget affair; decent enough performances from the two leads - Edmund Donovan and Matthew Frias - but don't expect anything too substantial. Maybe that's why it works - it is a movie about love (not necessarily gay love) without the usual drug use, effing and blinding and nudity. The "daytime" television feel is maybe what makes the film more remarkable - it's all just so ordinary as to treat same-sex attraction as routine - and that's no bad thing.

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