The Delta

USA, 1997. 85 mins. Strand Rel.

THE DELTA focuses on a white 17 year old boy whose surface straightness is a mask for a restless infatuation with men in a world of gay cruising and peep-show sex. After the easygoing Lincoln Bloom (Shayne Gray) meets a poor Vietnamese immigrant, Minh (Thang Chan), son of a black GI, at an all-night movie house, they take a playful, spur of the moment trip down the Mississippi in Lincoln`s father`s cabin cruiser. Their impossible love, with playful moments such as a swim at an isolated riverbank mud hole, is a poignantly twisted take on "Huckleberry Finn." Ultimately, the impossibility of their lives has tragic consequences.

Director: Ira Sachs