February 4, 2009 -- This low-budget, soft-porn, sci-fi, political farce has an interesting premise. Two scientists develop a biological agent which genetically alters human beings to reverse their existing sexual preference. Gays become straight and straights become gay. The agent was developed for President Pat Robertson, who was hoping to find a biological “cure” for premarital sex. Government agents seize the secret formula and unleash it upon the world's population before it is fully tested. The result: a world which is 90 percent homosexual and only 10 percent heterosexual. What happens to bisexuals isn't addressed in the movie.

The story centers around the two scientists, Ed Picante (played by Morse Bicknell) and Richard Holbrook (Perren Hedderson) and their wives, Lisa Picante (Jiji Hise of “The Laramie Project”) and Joan Holbrook (Courtney Bell). The world goes topsy-turvy as Robertson and Vice President James Dobson have gay sex in the White House, housing values plummet in San Francisco due to a “hetero housing” blight, Iran stops building the Bomb and instead decides to do a makeover of Tehran, Canada builds a wall to keep out American illegals, Christian religions do a flip-flop on the issue of gay marriage, which becomes constitutionally-protected in the United States and the Reverend Fred Phelps starts picketing funerals of straight people, who have become a very unhappy minority group. Most of the best jokes are in text crawls at the bottom of the screen during mock newscasts of “Fax News” (Fox News), “the news you can't get away from.”

Filmed mostly in Alamogordo, New Mexico, the filmmakers are marketing it as having been “banned in New Mexico.” The makers of the film say the only cineplex in Alamogordo refused to show it, saying it was “too political.” More likely the real reason they didn't want to show it was because the movie is too racy. The unrated film contains a lot of nudity and sex scenes, including nude Yoga poses. No actual gay sex is shown. I'd guess it would be rated R, or it wouldn't take much of an alteration to get an R rating from the DVD I saw. There are a lot of different companies operating a lot of different movie theaters in New Mexico. If all of them have really refused to show this particular film, there is probably more than one reason for all those decisions by all those owners and managers not to show it.

A couple of scenes involve airplanes and there is one scene of a car burning, not bad for a low-budget film. The biggest name associated with this project is two-time Academy Award nominee David Zippel, who wrote a song for the film, “Love is the Antidote.” I'm guessing the biggest audience for this film will be politically-active liberals, gays and lesbians. Aside from its prurient content, the film is funny enough to recommend it to those in its probable target audience. Right-wing religious types probably won't like it unless they have a good sense of humor. After all, right-wing religious types refuse to admit there is any biological basis whatsoever for homosexuality. This film rates a C+.

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