Hard Pill

Hard Pill (2005)

  • 58% of users liked it
    (472 ratings)

A gay man takes an experimental medication designed to make him heterosexual in this provocative independent drama. Plain-looking, unlucky in love, and approaching middle age, Tim (Jonathan Slavin) isn't very happy with the shallow hedonism of the gay world. He pines for his straight best friend Don… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 35 min.
Directed By
John Baumgartner
Genres
Drama
In Theaters
Oct 22, 2005 Wide
On DVD
Jun 20, 2006

Critic Reviews

  • MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

    [A] heartrending drama about the biological, emotional, and social structuring of human sexuality...

  • Don Willmott, Filmcritic.com

    There's a lot to discuss here, and the script makes many great points but always within the context of the story.

  • David Cornelius, eFilmCritic.com

    Hard Pill supplies the kind of intelligent, thoughtful, personal, effective speculative fiction that doesn't come around nearly enough these days.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Robert C


    A very interesting concept, hampered slightly by (mostly) mediocre writing. It would be easy to write this off as simply a "gay film", which is what it is on the surface. But for those who care to do a little thinking...It poses some really deep and thought provoking… More

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