Cure for Love

Name: Cure for Love
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2008-05-27
Duration: 59 min
Rating: 6.5
Cast: Ricky Chelette, Ana Fassell, Darren Freeman

2008
59m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

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Documentary

There's a bride, a groom and the usual happy crowd of well-wishers. But this is no ordinary wedding. Ana and Brian are adherents to a controversial evangelical movement that purports to conv... Read allThere's a bride, a groom and the usual happy crowd of well-wishers. But this is no ordinary wedding. Ana and Brian are adherents to a controversial evangelical movement that purports to convert gay people into heterosexuals. Cure for Love goes inside this unusual Christian subcul... Read allThere's a bride, a groom and the usual happy crowd of well-wishers. But this is no ordinary wedding. Ana and Brian are adherents to a controversial evangelical movement that purports to convert gay people into heterosexuals. Cure for Love goes inside this unusual Christian subculture and follows the lives of several gay young people.

Directors
- Francine Pelletier
- Christina Willings
Writer
- Christina Willings
Stars

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

YOUR RATING

Directors
- Francine Pelletier
- Christina Willings
Writer
- Christina Willings
Stars

4User reviews

See production info at IMDbPro

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Soundtracks
Ain't No Cure for Love
Written by Leonard Cohen
Courtesy of Sony BMG Publishing
Performed by Shannon Couture

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Featured review

10/10

The previous reviewer completely misunderstood the film

This film beautifully and excruciatingly shows the tortured thinking of gays and lesbians trapped inside the now de-bunked 'reparative therapy' movement.

The film was designed to make viewers feel disturbed, revolted, outraged - so in that sense the previous reviewer had it right.

The filmmakers managed to get unprecedented access to a notoriously paranoid community, and shed much needed light on the damage that was being done within it.

Instead of using a heavy and condemning hand - adding to damage already done - by betraying its subjects, the film used restraint and simply turned the camera on the lunacy - letting the painful contortions of its participants speak for themselves.

Very well done.