Dad Goes To College

By: buddhawannabe

The second in a series of four "Dad" films that Joe Gage directed ("Dad Takes a Fishing Trip," 2008; "Dad Goes to College," 2011; "Dad Gets into Trouble," 2013; "Dad Out West," 2015). In all these films, Allen Silver is the "Dad" of the title. In this particular one, as the title suggests, Dad decides to go back to college--the same college in which his son (Conner Habib) is already enrolled. We begin with the 'driving into town' opening which is one of Gage's trademarks. Then, in the first scene, Allen and Conner piss together (another of Gage's trademark situations) in the front yard of the house where Conner is living. (Doesn't anybody care that the places where Gage men have been pissing together must be stinking of urine, afterwards? Just sayin!) As doesn't always happen when Gage uses this set-up in other films, dad and son then proceed to other, more intimate activities. Then attention shifts to a local cruising ground, where Spike, Jake Steel and Ben Bach (later and better known under the name Dale Cooper) do some group messing around. From there we go to a room where a frat party has just concluded, with a coach (Girth Brooks) moonlighting as the bartender. Student Alex Andrews wants a late-night drink but is , so Allen offers to pose as his father, so as to make it OK for Allen to buy him a drink. One thing leads to another and everyone ends up getting some. Back to the cruising ground, where both ends of Will Swager are heavily utilized by Jake Steel, Bryan Slater (uncharacteristically laid back as a park ranger), et al. Then comes my favorite scene in the video: Allen goes to the office of his academic advisor (Ben Bach/Dale Cooper, again), which is equipped with a bed (!!), but they are interrupted by student Tommy DeLuca, who has a problem: the director of the play he's going to be performing in has asked him to do a nude scene (!! again, in an undergraduate college production?!?!) So what's Tommy's problem? Tommy obligingly explains by pulling his trousers down to display a cock big enough to require separate billing in the theater program. And it only gets bigger, leading to one of the best student/teacher scenes ever, and also one of the best clothed-male/naked-male scenes ever, as Dale and Allen, dressed in their suits and ties, sit to either side of naked Tommy and help him take care of that boner. After Tommy leaves (once again clothed, of course), Dale and Allen strip down and get to work on each other. In the final scene, Allen and Connor go out to the cruising area and have it off with each other, very thoroughly, in the back of a pick-up truck. This summary should suggest to you that there's plenty of hot sex, in plenty of hot situations. The video also puts to work several of Joe's favorite themes--one might even say obsessions--'intergenerational,' 'family roleplay,' guys whom you wouldn't expect to be having sex together in situations where you wouldn't expect them to be having sex together. There are some things that don't work, for me. Allen Silver certainly has the looks--a head of grey hair with a bald spot at the crown, salt-and pepper hair on chest and back, grey mustache and beard. But his attitude always seems to me to be that of a friendly, amiable porn star. In the family roleplay stuff, there never seems to be much of a sense of 'oh my god, what am I doing?' Instead it's 'hey, you want to suck my cock, what a great idea!' The 'family roleplay' scenes in Gage's other videos are much more intense, perhaps because Gage never actually 'goes there' with the but leaves it a tantalizing possibility, with father and son cutting side looks at each other, to admit what's going on. In fact, the scenes in which Allen and Alex have sex while pretending to be father and son are even hotter than the scenes with Allen and Connor, although Alex also detracts from the general hilarity by emitting an intensely irritating high-pitched whine during intercourse. Soooo, the video falls short of perfection, particularly disappointing (but also more understandable) given that the goals are so ambitious, and given that Joe Gage is the most talented gay porn director in human history. In fact, only a director with Gage's daring creative spirit would have set those goals in the first place, so we owe him a big debt for even trying--and the film is successful enough in so many ways, and the sex is so often red-hot, that it's still one of my favorite Gage films. A flawed masterpiece, but still a masterpiece.