Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Please don't spend money on this.

Fantastic!

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Henry Hart comes back to his sick grandpa into the fictional town Big Eden and finds love. It is a simple script but I like how it is done. On one part it is not 100% realistic. It is more of a gay utopia. A small town in Montana where everyone is not only gay accepting but doesn't even seem to care that anyone is gay, they just want them to be happy. This helped to make a gay romance movie that is different. It isn't about a coming out or worrying about homophobic neighbours. It is a simple romantic movie like they would do with a straight couple.I loved all the characters and how they presented them. The lady who tried to hook Henry up with women first but then got the idea and the whole town went on helping Pike to get with him. Including those cowboys sitting in his store all day doing nothing and yet making little moves to get him closer to Henry.And then some parts are more realistic than in other gay movies. The characters are normal men. Over 30 or even 40. Not models but looking like a normal guy. I think this formula of switching what is usually more realistic and more fiction in the common gay movies and creating something very different. This was a nice and a pretty sweet result.

We were in the movie and had fun doing it.We live in Montana and were country dance teachers back then 15 years ago. The casting director asked us to help with the dance scene in Apgar and bring our friends as extras. We had some fun teaching the cast and then filming for a very long day. We had to wear summer clothes for the shoot and it was filmed in October in Glacier National Park. I mean it was very cold but we had to smile in retake after retake, freezing in our short sleeve shirts late into the night.You think you want to be in the movies? Well, that cured me forever. Actors/Actresses deserve the money they get - trust me.Funny, the film was never shown in the county where it was filmed and where we live (Flathead) so we all headed down to Ronan on the Indian Reservation to see it there one night.

A must see movie, Big Eden is a beautifully done fairy tale. It is the story of true gay love in the most unlikely of places, the small hamlet of Big Eden, Montana.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.Henry Hart (Arye Gross of Ellen and Minority Report), a NYC artist, returns home to Big Eden to care for his ill grandfather. Henry meets his old school teacher Grace Cornwell (Louise Fletcher) at the hospital, and she suggests that when Sam leaves the hospital and goes home, that they make arrangements for cooked food to be brought in. They stop by Dexter's General Store, where they run into Jim Soams (O'Neal Compton), in his usual spot with a group of guys on the store porch, where they sit all day and shoot the breeze about much of nothing. He goes inside and asks store owner Pike Dexter (Eric Schweig) for his idea on the subject. Pike thinks that Widow Thayer (Nan Martin) might do the cooking and he would take care of the delivery.Meanwhile, Native American Pike Dexter has his eyes set on Henry, and the whole town does its best to get Henry and Pike together.We sense that Henry and Pike are mutually attracted to one another. But Pike is very shy and Henry must decide if he will consummate his relationship with Dean Stewart (Tim DeKay), who he's loved since high school. Dean is divorced from his wife and has two young children that he is caring for. He has returned to Big Eden to raise them. Will Henry and Dean complete their unfinished relationship of 18 years ago, or will Anna, who is attracted to Dean, help him decide where his love truly belongs?Being gay in Big Eden is no big deal to anyone. Falling in love and being happy is the big deal. It is thrilling to watch the unique way Pike decides to impress and catch Henry's eye.

It's really hard to find a portrayal of gay men, much less men-of-color, who are not prissy, have a fashion obsession or catty. This movie does a pretty good job, except for the "fruit fly" female character playing the manager to the lead male's painter. Man, does she ever shut up!?! She's on the screen for mere minutes and you want to never see her again, a total throwaway character.The story is typical guy holding torch for some guy who showed him some attention when he was younger, now after 20+ years he has a chance to see him again, blah blah blah. The truth is any gay man over the age of 25 realizes dreams like that never come true and if you are lucky you find love in places and whenever you least expect it. So that part of the movie comes off as pretty stereotypical, gay man staring and acting like a big ol' girl when the straight crush is around. The Pike Character was a real good job by Eric Schweig. It was great to see a brown man who isn't willowy and hanging on a middle-aged white guy like he's going to faint. The shyness of the character is interesting, no cloud of shame or second-class "so grateful you white/straight people like me". You don't even know where his heart lies until well into the movie, moving into it like a puff of air on the edge of a wheat field and forming gentle designs as it moves across. When the time comes and the lead character is in Pike's arms you see a really powerful image, the white lead is a molehill to Pike's mountain and probably one of the best kisses on film.