Big Eden has won the audience awards at just about every gay and lesbian film festival there is. Henry (Arye Gross) is an artist living in New York but still carrying a torch for the guy he had a crush on in high school. When his grandfather has a stroke, Henry returns to his Montana hometown, Big Eden, where he rediscovers friends he hasn't seen in years. His high school crush has since married, had children, and divorced--and seems ready to take some very different steps with his life. Big Eden is one of those implausibly tolerant towns where lesbians kiss each other in public and old coots in cowboy hats try to play matchmaker with bashful queers. Still, it's this sweet warmth in Big Eden that has made it a festival crowd-pleaser. --Bret Fetzer
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Big Eden is a tiny town tucked away in the timberland of northwestern Montana, where cowboys lounge on the porch of the general store to pass the time away, and keep their eyes on things.
Although it's been years since he was back, Henry Hart, a successful but lonely New York artist, returns to Big Eden, the town of his childhood, to care for the ailing grandfather who raised him. Once home, Henry finds he must come to terms with his relationship to Dean Stewart, his best friend from high school, and the object of his unrequited love. Henry's feelings for Dean, which caused him to flee Big Eden nearly twenty years ago, seem to have only grown stronger over the intervening years.
At the same time, Henry's reappearance sparks a transformation in Pike Dexter, the shy, unassuming, Native American owner of the town's general store. Pike is as surprised as anyone, and completely unprepared, when he finds himself falling in love with Henry.
As this unspoken triangle unfolds under the scrutiny of Big Eden's community, nearly everyone in town develops a stake in its outcome.
When tragedy strikes and Henry chooses to leave once again, and Pike is unable to articulate feelings which might alter Henry's course, it is ultimately the people of Big Eden that must join together in an effort to help two of their own find true happiness.
"I'd call it the gay date movie of the year, but it's so heart-tugging that straight people ought to be in on it, too." --Dave White, iFILM
BIG EDEN is a uniquely American fable about home and family that hits upon the universal longing and hope we each have for finding a place where we are loved, and the unconditional desire to see that those we love find happiness. BIG EDEN stars Arye Grass (Ellen, Minority Report) Eric Schweig (Skins, Dead Man's Walk) Tim DeKay (Swordfish, If These Walls Could Talk) and Academy Award winner Louise Fletcher (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Flowers In the Attic). BIG EDEN was directed by Thomas Bezucha and produced by Jennifer Chaiken.
Big Eden is a tiny town tucked away in the timberland of northwestern Montana, where Cowboys lounge on the porch of the general store to pass the time away. It is also the childhood home of Henry Hart, a successful but lonely New York artist who returns after years away to care for his ailing grandfather. Back home, Henry confronts his unrequited passion for his high school best friend and his feelings about being gay in a small town. Warmed by the openness and affection of old friends, in time Henry finds new possibilities for friendship and romance.
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