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As I Am

A story of a young man running from the truth about his childhood returns in order to correct his past but ends up discovering a side of himself that he suppressed.

Top Cast

  • Andre Darnell Myers

    Andre Darnell Myers

    Emanuel

  • Jerimiyah Dunbar

    Jerimiyah Dunbar

    Demetrius

  • Rodney Chester

    Rodney Chester

    Kevin

  • Tom McLaren

    Tom McLaren

    Charles

  • Piper Dellums

    Piper Dellums

  • Tim Christian

    Tim Christian

  • Rufus Tanksley

    Rufus Tanksley

  • Rob Hemen

    Rob Hemen

  • Matthew Camp

    Matthew Camp

Overview

A story of a young man running from the truth about his childhood returns in order to correct his past but ends up discovering a side of himself that he suppressed.

Rating

2.5 / 10
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    CinemaSerf
    5 Jun 26, 2022

    "Emmanuel" (Andre Myers) - who takes a shower whilst still wearing his glasses (?) - can't decide what milk to buy for baking. Luckily for him, hunky supermarket assistant manager "Demetrius" (Jerimiyah Dunbar) is on hand. Later on, and luckily again, this same man is there to stop him driving home whilst blotto! Next morning he wakes up in strange surroundings, quickly discovering that he is in the bed of his new guardian angel (alone). Hastily, and embarrassingly, he meets the young man's two gay dads before they take a bus into town. Sobered up, "Manny" suggests they hang out for a bit and it's at this point we discover that he has some intimacy issues - which the rest of this film sets about explaining to us. The last ten minutes sort of redeem it, but for the most part this is a poorly paced affair with Myers turning in a performance that I found just too tepid before an ending that is hinted at earlier, but rushed and undercooked when it comes. Clearly made on a tiny budget, the hand held camerawork is twitchy and disorientating at times, and the dialogue struggles to put any meat on the bones of this really rather disappointing, if quite good looking, story.

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