Danny in the Sky | 
| Director: Denis Langlois
Actors: Richard Angrignon, Thierry Pepin, Eric Boutin (ii), Jessie Beaulieu, Stephanie Aubry
Studio: Picture This
Category: DVD
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 65427
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language), English (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 88 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1893410595
UPC: 667443527145
EAN: 9781893410596
ASIN: B0000CBL9N
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: November 25, 2003
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Description
Danny is a young man looking for love. The son of a gay dad and a top-model mom who died of an overdose when he was still young, he wants to become part of a society that values luxury, glamour and appearances. Above all he wants to be a model against his dad's wishes. His first forays in the world of fashion dramatically change his vision of things, and he abandons everything. He embarks on a quest to find his real identity, taking modeling to the extreme by becoming a stripper. He temporarily finds the love he was looking for on the set of a porno shoot, with Karine, a photographer who's as voyeuristic as he is exhibitionist. But destiny soon catches up with him.
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 danny in the sky with diamonds May 20, 2007
M. FUSCO (NEW YORK, NY USA)
There is one very good reason to watch this film: Thierry Pepin as Danny. He is one of the most exquisite boys on film, with a stunning body and a profound natural sexiness. He also happens to be a very good actor, a fact which might well be overlooked because his beauty and physical presence are so overwhelming.
Danny's life is gut-wrenching. He has been orphaned by the death of his mother. He is further alienated and wounded by the coldness and brutality of his frustrated gay father. In fact, there is not one unselfish or thoughtful person in Danny's life. Desperate to be loved, he uses his staggering looks to get it by modeling and, eventually, stripping in a gay club. Danny equates worship with love.
His father's distance and anger derive from a decision, supposedly for Danny's benefit, to `act straight' as he raised his son. It was an unfortunate choice for them both. His behavior is a study in the pathological effects of repression and, after one act of violence and cruelty too many, Danny leaves home for good.
Coldly rejected by his father, abandoned by his girlfriend, and betrayed by his cousin, Danny commits an irresponsible act of revenge which goes horribly awry. He immediately regrets it, but the damage is done.
Danny's degradation is complete when his father finally decides to embrace his homosexuality. But, truly malicious and hateful, he does so by sleeping with his son's only friend. Danny is now truly alone. One can only hope that Danny will live to find the peace and love he consciously, and so heartbreakingly, seeks.
Danny In The Sky March 20, 2006
Elizabeth M. Harman (Tampa, Fl)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The movie was excellent. I would highly recommend it to everyone. Danny's life is kind of screwed up, living life in the fastlane. He finds true love at the end.
 Beauty fades; dumb is forever June 14, 2004
Jay Dickson (Portland, OR)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Thierry Pepin is a truly beautiful young man, with a great body and beautiful curly hair. This movie in which he stars is also beautifully shot and composed. Beauty, however, only takes you so far, and then you're faced with the utter stupidity of the screenplay of DANNY IN THE SKY. Danny is a young beauty, kept at arm's distance from his hunky repressed gay father and forever mourning his mother, a fabulous model and suicide. He suffers exquisitely, betrayed by his father, his girlfriend, and his handsome cousin, whose chances at winning a modelling competition away from Danny are scotched when Danny drugs his drink and puts him into a coma. Running away in horror at his own actions (this is the kind of movie where there are endless shots of the hero running away from something), Danny coveniently (and literally) bumps into the stripper who is a former boyfriend of another love interest, and then... oh, who cares. You get to see lot of shots of Pepin shirtless (which is wonderful) and also even more stupidly unlikely coincidences before the movie is mercifully over almost before it began.
Not more than barely passable March 12, 2004
Bill (Seattle, Washington United States)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
I saw this movie only a couple of days ago, and already I hardly remember it. It's just not very good. The production values are quite fine, and so are some of the performances. But the main character is somewhat aggravating, and the plot goes nowhere. I was glad to see it end. It's hard to see what point this movie is trying to make. In a way, I guess it's attempting to update and incorporate some elements of the 1956 movie "Tea and Sympathy," where a straight man is mistaken for gay. But now, nearly half a century later, it's time to move on, isn't it?
 Why? March 1, 2004
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
I thought this movie was very disjointed. It didn't do a very good job of connecting the scenes. The cinematography was excellent. But that couldn't save this movie from been very uninteresting.
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