Save Me

After a failed suicide attempt, Mark is enrolled in Genesis House, a hospice for gay men seeking the way of the Lord and a cure for their homosexuality. While initially coming round to this new way of thinking, it is not long before Mark realises his desire for fellow guest Scott does not fit in with the Genesis regime.

Given the subject matter, which seems ripe for criticism and parody, the film in fact offers a refreshingly disciplined insight into the curious world of gay recovery centres. In neither damning those who run the organisation, nor martyring its inmates, Robert Cary has crafted a multi-faceted account of a group of men with nowhere else to turn. Judith Light in particular gives a consummate performance as the founder of Genesis House, a woman attempting to wrestle with her own demons by venturing on a moral crusade in a misguided attempt to save others.

Michael Blyth