luster

SYNOPSIS- LUSTER

A refreshing departure from the typical
gay love story, Luster is Everett Lewis’
(Skin & Bone) raw, tender and darkly
comic look at young punks in love.
Queercore-loving Jackson Jones
(Justin Herwick) skates the streets of L.
A. with lust in his soul and poetry in his
veins. Jackson’s got boys, love and
lust on the mind! After an all-night
orgy, he falls in love with Billy, and
then there’s his cousin Jed – a
seriously hunky stud. And let’s not
forget Derek, a customer who lusts
after him and then maybe even Sam,
his straight(?) boss and best friend.
What’s a boy to do? This post-punk,
neo-romantic comedy takes us on a
wild sexual journey through a
seemingly all-queer L.A. Luster is non-
rated and contains full-frontal male
nudity and some heavy-duty
homoeroticism..

REVIEW

Luster is a hip, irreverent and
refreshingly funny take on today’s
queerboy world of lust, sex and
unrequited love. Queercore-loving
Jackson (Justin Herwick) is a lanky,
blue-haired record store employee and
poet who wakes up one post-orgy
morning groggy from the excesses of
the night before. He finds himself in a
real romantic mess; he’s fallen in love
with the seriously cute Billy (who he
met at the orgy). The only problem is
Billy (Jonah Blechman) just wants to be
friends and is himself punch-drunk in
love with Sonny (Willie Garson from
“Sex and the City”), a seriously
masochistic musician. So where’s a fag
who wants to be in love to turn? There’
s his hunky cousin Jed (B. Wyatt), who
is visiting, and while lustful dreams
invade his mind, there’s always that
damn incest thing. He could always
have Derek, a clean-cut customer who
obviously likes him, but that might be
too vanilla. His best bud and boss,
Sam (Shane Powers), might not be so
straight after all – but that’s a little
intense. With raging hormones and a
confused sense of romanticism, the
skate-boarding Jackson finds that
getting fucked while in love (with the
one who’s fucking you) is not such a
simple matter! Set in a seemingly all-
queer L.A., Luster is a wildly
entertaining ride through clashing
worlds of the heart and libido.
Ray Murray