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By turns funny and intensely sad, Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel is actor Leslie Jordan's (Sordid Lives) own story. It isn't pretty, but the emotions run high and you won't be bored.

Review

The dimunitive comic Leslie Jordan is very familiar to many of you as the drag queen "Brother Boy" in Sordid Lives. But here is a very different side to Mr. Jordan -- his own very intense story! Sometime in the early '70s, Jordan moved from his rural hometown to the gay epicenter of the south, Atlanta. He landed at a seedy, skid-row hotel where he spent three years living among the junkies, hustlers and drag queens sharing a room with a mess of a drag-queen, Miss Make-Do (Chandler). Jordan, while acting scared of the seedy goings-on around him, took a bad drug trip, a short stay in jail and then onto the street as a hustler. Somehow he landed found someone he thought was a savior -- a junkie named Tripper (Pellegrino) But of course, heroin is not exactly a solution to one's problems and the film takes us on a crazy, twisted love rollercoaster.

Based on Jordan's play, Lost in the Pershing Point Hotel, this is a film that sneaks up on you. It's humor and pathos are very real and quite squalid. The drag-&-drug humor is disarming. The glitter-rock nostalgia is bittersweet. The cameos (John Ritter, Michelle Phillips, Kathy Kinney, Marilu Henner) are certainly a thrill -- all credits to Jordan's TV career. There is magic in this dark tale, stick it out!

-- Scott Cranin

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Availability: Duration: 7 days
Catalog #: ND2041722

Studio : Ariztical Entertainment

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Gay Movie Guy wrote on 10/13/2005:

Wow.....this was a really, really good movie! How is it possible that it's received virtually no publicity? Probably because for a gay themed movie, there was very little twink eye candy and no nudity. And this movie didn't need either of those things. The acting was well done, and the story line hooked me from the beginning. It was funny, sad, tragic, (the whole spectrum of emotions) and left me feeling good and wanting more. Rent it, buy it, whatever you have to do. Just see it. You'll be glad you did.