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	Fixing Frank

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FIXING FRANK
Available from 10th October 2006

SYNOPSIS

Dan Butler ("Frasier") stars in this captivating drama about a gay man who goes
undercover to a therapist who "converts" gay men to heterosexuality.

REVIEW

"If you could obliterate your same-sex desires, would you?" asks psychologist Dr. Arthur
Apsey (Dan Butler, of TV's “Frasier”) to his patient Frank Johnston (Andrew Elvis Miller) in
the provocative drama Fixing Frank. This mesmerizing film version of Ken Hanes' sharply
written play explores the complex issue of a psychotherapy that purports to convert gays
to straight. Coerced by his lover Jonathan (Paul Provenza) to write an exposé about Dr.
Apsey, Frank reluctantly agrees to pose as a gay man with an identity crisis.

Frank's initial lies about wanting to change, however, may underlie a real willingness to be
converted. Does Frank really want to be straight? Is Jonathan using his lover as a pawn in
his own game? And does Dr. Apsey have his own agenda? As loyalties shift and ethics get
blurred, Philadelphia-born director Michael Selditch's compelling film builds inexorably to a
stunning finale where truth and trust converge.

Cleverly shot on digital video, Fixing Frank also raises important questions about the need
of self-loathing homosexuals to create "lives that work," and what it means to be -- in a
political sense -- a "good fag." The performances by the three actors are uniformly
excellent with Butler a standout as Dr. Apsey. A controversial topic, powerfully told and one
that begs for a heated debate
afterwards.

Gary M. Kramer

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"Boasts one of the most entertaining and bitterly astute screenplays I’ve had the pleasure
of listening to in a while, with its lengthening spirals of deceit, mendacity and one-
upmanship, and its elegant linguistic dances around difficult truths."

Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY

"An effective adaptation of a play that bristles with intense portrayals."

Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES