Lazy Eye

By: Marty

By: Amos Lassen

"LAZY EYE"
A Reunion
Amos Lassen
When Dean (Lucas Near-Verbrugghe), a 40-year-old graphic designer, surprisingly hears from Alex (Aaron Costa Ganis) , the ex he hasn't seen in 15 years, the two decide meet for a weekend at a house in the desert near Joshua Tree.

?Everybody has someone from their past, that one love that got away and perhaps broke your heart. "Lazy Eye" is about what happens when that person reappears. Dean is lonely, frustrated in his work and his life. He gets quite the surprise when Alex, an ex he hasn't seen or heard from in 15 years, contacts him out of the blue. When they meet, secrets are revealed, truths told, and old wounds reopened as they share hopes of burying the past and starting over.
Over the course of a weekend at a vacation house in the desert, they must determine whether or not they have a future together. The film looks at roads not taken, unfinished business, and the struggle to protect oneself from hurt.

Alex is self-assured and free-spirited. disappeared without a trace after a summer fling 15 years earlier and now is with Dean in the Southern California desert. It is soon clear that he harbors his share of doubt and regret over what happened. What begins as a passionate second-chance fling becomes an emotionally charged rehashing of their past romance as both men deal with the decisions that have led them to this point.

We look at the question of whether turning back to the past is ever a viable way to move forward. Tom Kirkman directed the film.