Those People

2015
6.5| 1h29m| en
Details

On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign pianist.

AD
AD

Watch Free for 30 Days

Stream on any device, 30-day free trial Watch Now

Trailers & Clips

Also starring Jonathan Gordon

Reviews

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting
Supelice Dreadfully Boring
Izzy Adkins The movie is surprisingly subdued in its pacing, its characterizations, and its go-for-broke sensibilities.
Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
Jose David Ahhhh the wonders of love, betrayal and everything in between. I believe this movie captures all that, maybe superficially at times, but it's there. Obviously the subject matter is similar to that of other movies as originality is hard to find. I mean lets face it, what hasn't been written and/or sung already?!This movie touches on a subject that most of us experience and that's love. How love hurts, pining for someone that you've known for sometime but your love/admiration for that person isn't reciprocal, so you think. The characters in the movie to me were very believable. This movie was about those bonds that you form with your clique and how love adapts and how acceptance of its adaptation plays out. It didn't need to be this over the top gay extravaganza like other movies. The actors were very good and I'm glad that they didn't throw in all the unnecessary extras (i.e. the bigger than life drag queen, the club scene where most have their shirts off dancing to club music, etc). I believe the script was well written and stayed on focus. Definitely very touching, soft and dark at the same time. It's a movie that no matter what your sexual orientation is, you can related to.
Irishchatter Even though I do like the movie, I thought there was a lack of story line there where the characters were on top of each other. It may seem that Charlie likes Tim but then he likes Sebastian. Then he cries to go back to Tim and sticks up for Sebastian when themselves & their friends were having Christmas dinner. I have thought about giving this movie a rating of 8 however, I felt the story line should've run smoothly and not give me a few headaches by trying to find out what is gonna happen next?!!! That's why I'm giving this movie a 6!I also think it would've been better if there were even less characters in this, especially the boys annoying wimpy friends. They shouldn't have been on there the first place, it was just pointless having the three friends on this! Anyways the good news is that it's not the "worst" movie I've seen and the sex scenes were well done. I liked the background too that was set in this movie, the film crew did a good job on that. It's a good movie to watch if you wanna kill time!
zif ofoz Charlie and Sebastian are old friends. Sebastian is emotionally damaged. Charlie seems to have a life and is committed to his friendship with Sebastian.Sebastian has stalled emotionally while Charlie has continued to grow up. Charlie meets a new love interest and this causes a fracture in his friendship with Sebastian. Sebastian is very very needy of Charlie's friendship and Charlie does not want to hurt Sebastian by following through on his new found love relationship by having to totally leave Sebastian.The fact that each character is gay is not made into a factor with this story. It's just fact. The story is all about friendship, commitment, and the love of two friends - not two lovers. One friend is weak and confused, the other is strong and wants to get on with life but his conscience and friendship with poor Sebastian is a stumbling point with Charlie.The characters are wealthy and spoiled. Sebastian's needy personality will get on your nerves but the plot works and you begin to care about Charlie as he is a nice person who is dealing with issues that have a direct impact on his life and future.
lollollolllo I really wanted to like this movie, and I do. It's a nice little character drama, the acting and cinematography are strong across the board, and it's so refreshing to watch a gay movie without someone in the closet or dying of AIDS.The problem was that I thought the Charlie and Sebastian characters were generally unlikable and hard to root for. Sebastian in particular is a massive trainwreck, and it's hard to see why Charlie would be pining after him for so long, or why it took so long for them to address the tension between them. Sebastian came off as charming, but also selfish and self-destructive. The film could have developed more on the pull that Charlie feels toward Sebastian in order to fix this.Charlie's new love interest Tim, on the other hand, is almost too good to be true. He's an incredibly talented concert pianist with seemingly no flaws who keeps giving more chances to the equivocating Charlie. I imagine that by the end of it all he was almost relieved to have an excuse to quit NYC for San Francisco, just like he left his last boyfriend in Lebanon. lolOverall I enjoyed it, and would recommend it to others. The dialogue is generally good (though I thought Sebastian's talk with his father was an exception) and the characters are fairly realistic, which is to say that they were frustrating in the ways that real people can be.