Naked As We Came

Name: Naked As We Came
Genre: Drama, Family
Released: September 13, 2013
Duration: 84 min

2013

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| Release Date: September 13, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: Love, loss and hope are tumultuously explored amidst a tranquil backdrop and asks us all the question: What is your dream?

Director: Richard LeMay

Genre(s): Drama, Family

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 84 min

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John Oursler

Jan 21, 2014

Naked plays like a gay-themed August: Osage County without all the histrionics. Read full review

Anita Gates

Sep 12, 2013

A lovely small surprise of a film. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Sep 13, 2013

A committed cast and pensive insights into family and self-expression help make this indie drama work. Read full review

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GreatMartin

Oct 18, 2013

Richard LeMay, as director and writer of “Naked As We Came”, brings nothing to the genre except a bunch of cliches and many nature ‘artistic’ shots. He has added a political plot that only muddies the story leaving more than one viewer with questions.

We have two adult children, ElliotRichard LeMay, as director and writer of “Naked As We Came”, brings nothing to the genre except a bunch of cliches and many nature ‘artistic’ shots. He has added a political plot that only muddies the story leaving more than one viewer with questions.

We have two adult children, Elliot (Ryan Vigilant) and Laura (Karmine Alers) visiting a mother, they haven’t seen in a year and a half, who is dying of cancer and right up front admits she wasn’t the best of mothers. She was more interested in her orchids than her children. She was married to a man who was a womanizer and interested in making making and he did. Lilly, (Lue McWilliams), the mother, lives in an estate in upper New York having a small and a large greenhouse, the latter filled with fresh grown vegetables and resides in house that has enough windows and skylights to keep a window washer busy all year. Unknown to the children a young man, Ted (Benjamin Weaver), has been living with their mother as a combination of groundskeeper, who kills her orchids, makes meals for them both and a caretaker, for 6 months but, contrary to what the children think, there is nothing sexual about the relationship and he has a secret.

Laura, 10 years older than Elliot, and her brother own a very lucrative laundry business left to them by their father. She is very controlling and recently divorced her husband while he is an excellent cook, taking after his father, and lost in his personal life. Lilly is leaving the house and estate to Elliot and a beach house to Laura but first wants to apologize to both for not being more of a mother to them and hopes to see them take better paths than they have so far. She is full of wisdom and weed, for them and Ted. Elliot and Ted have sex the first night the former is there which upsets Laura and pleases Lilly. The only surprise in the film is where the affair leads.

The sex scene is handled as artistically as the nature scenes, including many shots, too many, of white, fluffy clouds showing a lot more of the latter than the former. There are also mouth watering scenes of both guys chopping various vegetables and making meals.

The acting by all is adequate though Lue McWilliams’ black turban outfit has your mind wandering off to “Sunset Boulevard” and Norma Desmond. Both Vigilant and Weaver are eye candy though the former smiles to much which looks like smirks. Karmine Alers is strong as Laura and does an acappella song without embarrassing herself.

There is nothing in “Naked As We Come” you haven’t seen before in a movie.… Expand

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StevieB212

Sep 15, 2013

Painful. Like one of those movies at a Film Festival in which you're rooting for the plot and the actors all this potential but then in the end has not depth and is amateurish and you're so disappointed.

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