Skip to main content
The Delta Poster

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

Full Cast & Crew

Media

Loading Wikipedia summary...

Similar Movies

Reviews

Sign in to write a review.
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...

Read the full review on TMDb
×