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"I do hope your pimples don't let you down on the big night." 14-year old Steve is caught between creatures he does not fully understand: two parents with very different ideas about the suit he should wear to his first school dance. Meanwhile everywhere he seems to look, images of men are taking control of his imagination. In Stewart Main's comical coming of age story Steve escapes his parents' good wishes, to discover his true desires. They aren't quite what his no-nonsense father had in mind. 

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About Face Series Background by Ian Pryor 28.09.2008

Filmmakers sometimes find themselves caught in a waiting room between their early short films, and their first full-length feature. How do you go about building up filmmaking experience, and an audience and ensure potential talent is not being ...

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Comments (3)

 Pete

Pete

Loved the film but I think it would have been more amusing if the lad had ended up wearing a suit with shorts trousers! I don't think the kid would have been too pleased! ;-D

Pete

 Phil Wilkinson

Phil Wilkinson

Love the "LOVE MUSCLE"

great times!

 Bryan Goddard

Bryan Goddard

This is amazing, it must have been groundbreaking for that time. I'm so glad it's here so I could see it. I never realised it existed.

Thank you.

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