Right By Me | 
 enlarge | Director: Thanyatorn Siwanukrow;jackie;pimphong Isarasena Na Ayutthaya And Wijitra Wijitrwongon
Actor: Palat Ananwattanasiri
Studio: WATER BEARER FILMS
Category: DVD
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 35603
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Subtitled), Thai (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D14113D
UPC: 759259141131
EAN: 0759259141131
ASIN: B00191AF04
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: June 24, 2008
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Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED!
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Product Description
A Wonderful Love Story From An Ancient Land
This sweet, sexy and alluring movie follows the lives and loves of three college friends all in different stages of coming out to themselves and others.
Handsome and bookish Tat attends coming out support meetings with his out and proud friend Nat. The two boys are surprised when Tat's crush, the hunky athlete Ek, shows up to a meeting. Questioning his sexuality Ek turns to Tat for advice and a sweet romance gradually develops, creating an awkward situation between Tat and Nat.
To survive and prosper, all three must surmount the homophobia of Thai society, neglectful and abusive home lives, gay bashings, school work and their own love triangle.
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Sweet coming-of-age story is based on US novel! July 8, 2008
Bob Lind (Phoenix, AZ United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
In "Right By Me", a 2005 release from Thailand, we meet three college students whose relationship is the focus of the story. There's Tat, the rather nerdish and studious one, on the college swim team, and closeted from his unsuspecting parents. On the other hand, his best friend Nat is flamboyant and out to the world (and the constant target of bullies because of it), with an unrequited crush on Tat. Tat's attention is drawn by Ek, the hunky college basketball star who has a girlfriend, but who shows up at an off-campus gay student meeting and - when he sees the others from his class - quickly claims that he went to the meeting "by mistake". Uh, huh.
After promising not to tell anyone about Ek's "mistake", Tat tutors him to pass his Statistics exam, while relishing the proximity this affords him to his crush. Ek is still deeply in denial, but realizes his attraction to guys is real, and is likely the cause of ongoing problems with his girlfriend. Meanwhile, Nat continues to drop not-so-subtle hints to Tat that he likes him as more than just a friend, but is frustrated when his friend doesn't seem to get the message.
These are, of course, familiar scenarios to many gay or bisexual men, but if the characters themselves seem somewhat familiar, that could be because the film is based on the novel "Rainbow Boys" by Alex Sanchez, which was exceedingly popular when published in Thailand. The movie was called "Rainbow Boys: The Movie" in that country, and received kudos by Fridae.Com as "... the first Thai film to treat gay men as full-fledged warm, complex, loving individuals - as opposed to the cartoon stereotypes typically depicted in Thai cinema."
Nice dramatization of the book, slightly overacted, the photography choppy in spots, but recommended for way in which the story deals with these universal "coming out" concerns. In Thai with English subtitles. No extras on the DVD other than trailer and chapter stops. Give it four proud stars out of five.
Young Love July 1, 2008
Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Right By Me"
Young Love
Amos Lassen
New from WaterBearer Films is a wonderful story of young love from Thailand. Three college friends are all at different stages of coming out, both to themselves and to others. Tat is both handsome and studious and he is having a fairly easy time of the dealing with it. He regularly goes to coming out meetings with hid friend Nat who is out and proud. Tat develops a crush on Ek, an athlete and Ek surprises the boys by showing up at one of the meetings. He questions his sexuality and when he turns to Tat for advice, a very sweet and nice relationship begins to develop between the two. This of course throws Tar's relationship with Nat a bit out of whack. The three guys know that in order for things to be ok for them, they must not only deal with Thai homophobia but rise above it.
The movie is based on the novel "Rainbow Boys" by Alex Sanchez which was quite popular in Thailand and the movie shows what it is like to be gay there. The movie is amateurish but that seems to add to the film rather than detract from it. The boys are very cute and they perform well and young love is always a pleasure to watch. The three gays are as different as can be. Nat is effeminate and way out in contrast to Tat who is in the closet to his family and friends. Ek is just the regular nice guy who suffers from an abusive father and he is confused about his sexuality.
Everything in the film is predictable but the story is interesting and worth watching, especially to see the way the non-Western world deals with homosexuality.
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