An Angel Named Billy

What a beautiful film! All the characters come alive in a real world of love and compassion. I would like to believe there are young men as altruistic as Billy in today’s world. Greg Osborne as created a wonderful film which lifts you up at the final sequence.

Pretty much everything the other 1 ⭐️reviewers wrote about this movie is correct. I masochistically forced myself to watch until the end. I kept thinking it had to get better… It didn’t. I cringed and had to laugh during almost every scene. I felt sorry for the performers and couldn’t believe people willingly paid money to produce this.The only case that can be made to watch this film is as a lesson in what not to do when making a movie. Every aspect of what not to do in filmmaking is featured here.

The storyline was unrealistic. Case in point, a young man is hired on the spot to take care of a man that just suffered a second stroke. He is right out of high school; no work experience; and responded to the ad that was posted at a local coffee shop. Also need to mention, he has no form of transportation and had to walk a long distance to get to his interview. No only he was hire right then and there, he was given free accommodations to stay to take care of this patient. It got worse from there.I almost felt sorry for the young actor to be put through this mess, I understand afterwards he became a musician. I hope he was able to put this “film” behind him.

This movie is possibly the best movie ever. A must watch for everyone. So many life lessons packed into one and a half hours. Watch it. The drag queen scene is entrapping. Mesmerizing.'brought tears to my eyes in a moment

Real cheesy film but I like it.

The acting, dialogue, directing, set production.....everything about this movie was just horrible. So let's just focus on it's biggest flaw, the complete lack of believability of this movie's storyline.1) Billy is spotted kissing his best friend and is kicked out of his house by his crazy cliche bible-thumpin' father. Where does Billy go?? To live with his divorced mother, to find his best friend and cry on his shoulder?? Nope. He decides to hitch a ride to L.A. with only $40 and a backpack (which magically contains at least four or five changes of clothes.)2)We spend a good 15 minutes with a phone conversation between the ugliest and most cliche drag queen in the world and a guy who's had a few strokes. Maybe I shouldn't laugh at a stroke victim, but it's so obvious his lips are literally glued together to pull off the stroke-face affect. The stroke victim's son is about 40 years old, but apparently the actor playing him hasn't been told this. He plays it like he's 16 with much batting of the eyelashes, over-emoting and naivete. Stroke dad wants son to find a good man. Creepy son decides to hire a "house boy" to take care of stroke dad.3) Upon arriving in L.A. Billy goes to a small cafe (which appears to also double as the courtyard of stroke dad's home.) He orders only a soda. The bitchy queen waiter, Guy, says, "Sure honey...coming right up." LOL. Yeah, that's a pretty typical response in L.A. He brings the drink and then says "let's go get burgers." The cliche hag whips up the burgers and fries in 20 seconds flat. They chat using horrible dialogue for about a minute, Guy eating only a few fries and Billy eating nothing. Flamy Guy doesn't know a thing about Billy but asks him to move in with him. Back at Guy's apartment which also appears to be just a room in stroke dad's house with a "1A" number stuck on it, Billy asks to take a shower. It literally takes him 15 seconds. They lie in bed shirtless (and it's probably only about 6 or 7 p.m.) and just go to sleep. Guess the writer, director, producer, idiot didn't have any dialogue or plot ideas.4) Billy calls creepy son about the "house boy" position and then interviews with stroke dad and creepy son. Of course just prior to the interview, Guy and Billy have a ridiculous musical dance scene where they go to get Billy's hair cut. The actor playing Billy must have said he wasn't getting paid enough to get his locks clipped because his hair doesn't change one bit. At stroke dad's house, creepy son does everything but dry hump Billy. They ask nothing about his background, ask for no references and say "You sound perfect!!" So does a serial killer.5) Creepy son continues stalking Billy to the point of creating uncomfortable scenes for the viewer. Isn't it perfectly normal for a 40 year old gay man to ply his father's 17-18 year old care-taker with margaritas and leer at the boy as he lies in his underwear in bed? Billy appears to have no attraction to creepy son until he comes back from a night out with Guy and his friends crying. Those awful, catty queens were mean enough to call him a "cute nurse." The nerve!! Creepy son makes his move and does dry hump Billy. Two seconds later, after saying they love each other, creepy son goes in for the full molest. The next morning they tell stroke dad about their love. Stroke dad says, "I know...I heard you last night", conjuring up images of stroke dad giving his non-stroke hand a good workout the night before.6) Billy's awful mother comes to L.A. to spend the day with her son. They shop all day and then return to her hotel room where she nonchalantly tells Billy, over cookies and milk, that his stupid father died a few days after Billy left. Billy's little brother is now living with an aunt, but she hopes to get custody soon. The mother character is as horrible as the lady portraying her.7) Stroke dad dies, crazy rodeo clown drag queen cries. A lot is said about friends to the end, friends forever, friends don't let queens look like that on camera, etc. I'm not quite sure since I spent the entire scene with a bag over my head. Clowns are scary!8) After some silly melodrama regarding a kiss that wasn't, Billy and creepy son profess their eternal and creepy love. It's hard to tell if Billy is crying because he does or doesn't want to kiss creepy son. The chemistry is pulsating....or is that creepy son's eyelashes again?9) The train wreck ends as crazy director wraps up movie by trying to connect everyone. Awful mother and braindead Bozo the drag queen start up a gay dating service. Guy inherits a country home and starts dating Billy's old best friend. Creepy son and Billy ride off in a limo drinking more margaritas. Creepy son dumps Billy when he turns 19 for being too old for him. Says he's looking for more of a Zack Ephron type...circa 2004. What....that didn't happen??? Well there's always room for a sequel....hint hint Greg Osborne.

The acting doesn't live up to it's standard. Even though the movie is making a political statement about being gay, the drag queen is terrible, Billy is mediocre at best, James and Guy are average. And the lady who owns the coffee shop is another representation of these women who try to engulf the gay cause all of by themselves (remember Debbie from "Queer as Folks".)The story is about Billy who gets caught kissing with his best friend (a beautiful cowboy looking hunk, the guy on the movie box) in the beginning of the movie and gets booted out his farm ranch from a very abusive, alcoholic father (who has a bible next to him.) Billy hitchhikes to Los Angeles. There he meets Guy, a cute bus boy in a coffee shop. Guy offers his place to Billy temporarily. They show a scene of these two beautiful gay kids next to each other sleeping, nothing happens between them, com on give me a break.Billy gets hired by James (a much older guy than Billy), the son of Mark, who had several strokes. James is a professional photographer, who just came out a relationship with a drug addict. Mark and his friend Tom, a drag queen go way back together. The setting up of the plot with these two characters was endless in the beginning of the movie.Billy moves in with Mark and Mark becomes very fond of Billy as a caretaker. James also starts falling for Billy, and vice versa. Marks finally dies from his illness. Billy and James get married. Guy moves back to where Billy is from and hooks up with Billy's best friend. And yes, Billy gets re-acquainted with his mother who has been living in LA since she left her drunk husband.The movie has its' moments, and it is a cute love story. Billy and Guy are gorgeous. I do not understand why this movie is so pricey, after all it is an American movie. Again the acting is bad. And this movie almost has an identical plot to another American movie "The Journey of Jared Price." In this movie Jared goes for the young kid which he met when he first arrived at LA (unlike Billy), instead of the older guy.

Yes this is bad. Really really bad. It took me three sittings to get through this movie, but I couldn't believe it wouldn't have some sort of turn around surprise at the end. It didn't. The story concept was probably OK, but the writing...whew! awful. The directing real bad. I'm amazed the writer/director bothered to include an interview on the DVD. I'd have been ashamed to put my name on it. The lead actor, Dustin Belt, had his moments. He was believable when he cried, but most of the other main characters were quite one dimensional. Again, that could have been the writing. You can only do so much with a bad script.The only good thing about this movie was using it as fodder for decrying it with your friends later. "It was so BADDD!" "Yeah? How bad was it?!!" "It was stinky!"

I guess I'm the first to review this piece of tripe as no one else cared to waste their time with it. Boring, terribly scripted, horribly acted & the music!!! It'll be faster & cheaper just to grab a couple of ice-picks and gouge your eyes out... and probably more entertaining. Avoid this one at all costs! Don't say you weren't warned!