The Delta

1997

Drama

In Memphis, a middle-class white teenager and a black Vietnamese immigrant meet in a gay cruising spot and discover what they don't have in common.

"The distance between two men is..."

Rating

5.548
21 votes

Popularity

0.5808

Origin & Countries

US | en | United States of America

Production

Charlie Guidance Productions

Runtime

85 min.

Status

Released

Release: 8/15/1997

Credits

The Delta

Ira SachsDirector

The Delta

Shayne GrayLincoln Bloom

The Delta

Thang ChanMinh Nguyen (John)

The Delta

Rachel Zan HussMonica Rachel

The Delta

Colonious DavidRicky Little

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

8/24/2024

6 / 10

The handsome "Lincoln" (Shayne Gray) has a decent life, plenty of money and a girlfriend "Monica" (Rachel Zan Huss) but he also has a secret. When she declines to put out one evincing, he heads to a cruising area of Memphis where he initially encounters a daddy figure before meeting "Minh". He's a Vietnamese man who is almost the antithesis of "Lincoln". His mother quite recently arrived in the USA, his father was an American soldier - they split up and he's now living with some fellow Vietnamese. They two men chat but "Minh" isn't so keen to go straight for the sex; he wants to get to know his new friend a little. To that end, they take his father's boat and a different kind of cruise on the delta; have a beer and set off some fireworks. It's that latter activity that annoys the police and sends "Minh" feeing into the forest. Has he something to hide? Well the tail end of the film enlightens us a little to the true nature of this man. I did like the concept here, but I'm afraid the acting is pretty nondescript and for a film that relies heavily on conversation, the audio mix makes much of the dialogue inaudible and that proves quite irritating after a while. I think it might have made for a better short feature. Condensing it's more potent aspects into an hour or so might have given it more punch, but as it is - it's too slow and thinly strung out.

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