Movie Review: Young Again
In one of its most inventive fantasies yet, Disruptive Films delivers wish fulfillment and voyeurism in “Young Again,” our featured movie this week.
A lonely older man named Mitch (LGBTQ legend Chi Chi LaRue) lives for the few minutes of each day when he can stare through the peephole as his gorgeous neighbor Jordan (Latinx hunk Ricky Larkin) comes and goes, always on schedule. Mitch doesn’t notice that Jordan is creeped out by hearing him at the door. One day, when Mitch works up the courage to step outside and say hello, it doesn’t go the way he wants. Mitch retreats to his room in shame and despair, but then his foot brushes against a package from his sister that he forgot to open. He reads the letter, which is about manifesting what he wants in life using the crystals that she’s sent. Mitch thinks crystals are silly, but he takes two handfuls, expresses his wish to be young again, and lies back to sleep with his arms crossed over his chest.
When Mitch wakes up the next day and sees his hot younger self (Michael Del Ray) in the mirror, he’s ecstatic. The crystals worked! (more…)