Circuit
Dirk Shafer, director.
USA, 2002, 35mm, 120 min.
Official Web site: www.circuitmovie.com

Get out the glow sticks, pull on the Body Body Wear and follow Circuit into the gay party scene of designer drugs, throbbing techo and chiseled chests. John is an honest, idealistic - and gay - cop in a conservative town. After being outed and persecuted by his fellow officers, he decides to accept an invitation from his cousin Tad to move to West Hollywood.

Tad is making a documentary about the party circuit and he introduces John to the Bacchanalian phenomenon of the L.A. scene where everything is big: the bodies, the music, the parties and the drugs. John abandons his career in law enforcement and takes a job as security for club owner Gino (William Katt, the Greatest American Hero). Along the way he meets Hector, a hot Latin hustler who takes John on an irresistible Dantesque descent into body obsession and drug addiction. Hector does steroids for his body, takes designer drugs for his head, and his soul plays the pretty victim.

Meanwhile, Tad's documentary captures some of the film's subplots. As John spirals out of control, he struggles to keep a grip on reality as this heady cocktail culminates in tragedy at the White Party. With its throbbing soundtrack, pulse-pounding party scenes and mounds of hard, glistening flesh, writer/director Shafer (Man of the Year) has crafted a film that is certain to have tongues wagging long after the mirrorball has stopped spinning.

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