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The Delta (1997)

NR Aug 15, 1997 Drama 1h 25m
User Score
55%
21 votes
Internet Movie Database
55%
Rotten Tomatoes
71%
Metacritic
6000%

The distance between two men is...

Overview

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.

Ira Sachs
Director

Top Billed Cast

Shayne Gray
Shayne Gray

Lincoln Bloom
Thang Chan
Thang Chan

Minh Nguyen (John)
Rachel Zan Huss
Rachel Zan Huss

Monica Rachel
Colonious David
Colonious David

Ricky Little
Charles J. Ingram
Charles J. Ingram

Gary Bloom
Leigh Walden
Leigh Walden

Cece Bloom
Gene Crain
Gene Crain

Sam Bloom
Ron Gephart
Ron Gephart

Ken Bloom
Kim Newman
Kim Newman

Denise Bloom

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on August 24, 2024

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 evening, 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...

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