mica_d123 I loved this movie. It was touching and heart wrenching.It showed that love conquers all no matter what happens. I can't stop watching this movie. I play it over and over again I just can't get enough of this film. The director did a great job with this film. It captured the essence of true love and what is meant to be in love with someone.I think they should make a Defying Gravity 2 even after all these years. I would like to know what happened with Pete and Griff's relationship, Griff's friendship with Denetra. The second movie should be class reunion about what happened in their lives after the first movie and what they been up to.

wittewaslijn A pity I discovered this movie so late. There seems very little information about this movie available and I'm even more surprised that there is even less information about the actors on the web, especially Daniel Chilson is a very promising actor and I don't understand why he (apparently) played in only one movie. As someone else also mentioned: the scene in the mountains is simply superb and I've seen many well known movies with "big" actors who didn't reached at all this "niveau" (as they put in french). I'm far from being a movie-specialist but one thing is for sure: I enjoyed this movie immensely and I think this is one of the main aims for a movie. Go on guys.

Merwyn Grote Griff's a frat boy. So is Pete. Griff and Pete are lovers. Griff still wants to be seen as straight; so does Pete, though Pete is on the verge of coming out. Griff doesn't like being pressured. But when Pete is injured in a gay bashing, Griff is forced to decide on which side of the fence he must ultimately stand. DEFYING GRAVITY is like one of those moralistic religious shows they used to show on Sunday mornings, mini-soap operas like "Insight" where average people found themselves facing difficult choices. Only in GRAVITY, religion is avoided and gay sex has been added. It is sincere. It is sweetly, naively philosophical in its morality. It is likable, but it is simplistic. It is about a man who wants to do the right thing, but has to muster up the moral courage to sacrifice his comfortable life in order to do it. DEFYING GRAVITY is vanilla, both sexually and dramatically. As Griff and Pete, Daniel Chilson and Don Handfield are boy-next-door handsome and kid brother cute. Their sex is PG rated. They are given a mutual best friend (Niklaus Lange) who is unmistakably straight to let us know that it is all right to be gay friendly. Griff's coming to terms with his sexuality is aided by a lesbian acquaintance (Linna Carter) who is black, to better identify being gay with being marginalized. It is all a bit too predictable.Yet, the film is sincere and it is well acted, especially by Chilson who underplays his part with the right amount of repressed, middle-class indecisiveness. And the film's most honest revelation is noting that most great changes in life come after slow deliberation and soul searching.DEFYING GRAVITY is feather weight, though it hardly defies gravity. But as it comfortably sets there taking up space, it is pleasant and inoffensive and delivers it message with utmost politeness. That may make it seem inconsequential, but since most gay films wallow in angry ranting or outrageous camp, GRAVITY's low-key thoughtfulness makes it a little bit different and a little bit special.

Glenn I rented the DVD and had high hopes after reading their blurb, but ultimately it was a let down. I have seen my share of gay films over the years, and I thought this one actually had an interesting story to tell, it just didn't tell it very well. Others here have decried the acting and rightly so.I found the whole thing right down to the gay bashing was very predictable and cliche. Even though the film is only about 90 minutes it felt much longer. It needed a better editing job and the script needed work. There just didn't seem to be a whole lot of depth to the characters. But I did like the str8 best friend character who finally gets Griff to do the right thing. But it seems to me that he could have gone to the cops and helped them out even without exposing himself to the the frat. If he really cared about Pete wouldn't he have done that sooner as the detective wondered?On a scale of 1-10 I'd give it a 5. But I liked the idea of the film better than its execution.