Film Threat by Phil Hall

Provocative and poignant.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Lee obviously wants to portray Ethan as something other than the dutiful No. 1 son, but Ethan isn't entirely convincing as a doped-up street hustler.

Variety by Robert Koehler

Messy admixtures of drama and mockery crucially undermine pic's serious message.

The A.V. Club by Scott Tobias

Without contrivances, the movie would only run about five minutes.

The New York Times

By the time we reach the "Butch Cassidy"-inspired climax, any filaments of credibility still clinging to these characters have completely disappeared.

Chicago Reader by Andrea Gronvall

"Soppy" doesn't begin to describe this 2004 drama by Quentin Lee.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

The one highlight is Julia Nickson, who breathes life into the role of Ethan's evil stepmom.

Village Voice

An exhausting exercise in genre mixing.

L.A. Weekly

Nobody onscreen seems to realize that this deadeningly self-serious treatment of family dysfunction is so overwrought that it becomes a spot-on satire of low-budget ineptitude.

San Francisco Chronicle by John McMurtrie

Desperately wants to deal dramatically with the legitimate issues of homosexuality, tolerance, homelessness and drug use. But to do so, the movie, like Ethan, would first need to grow up.