Chicken Pun: Pet Rooster Spurs Farm Boy's Homo Awakening
David Ng
Tuesday, April 27th 2004
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photo: Strand Releasing
Poultry returns: Hirsch
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Written and directed by Michael Burke
Strand, opens May 7, Quad
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Farm animals, being the object of much teenage sexual experimentation, provide a significant backdrop to this tale of homo awakening. Duncan Mudge meets his first crush, Perry (Tom Guiry), over the wet muzzle of a plow horse, and they subsequently bond in cattle barns and chicken coops. Burke renders his protagonist's dysfunctionality in mile-wide strokes: Overly attached to the memory of his deceased mother, Duncan wears her clothes around the house, to the consternation of his stoic father (Richard Jenkins). Needless to say, Duncan's oral/poultry fixation registers as a kind of fellatio, while his name (Dunkin' Fudge) presages a rape scene involving the increasingly homophobic Perry. Goofily handsome, Hirsch inhabits his character's outsiderness with compassion, whether he's warbling a hymn to an inattentive church congregation or sweetly ingratiating himself to the local cool kids. The Mudge Boy ultimately tips over into teary reconciliation, but at least it's a movie that readily admits to wanting its chicken and eating it too.
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