This picture concerns the life of two men who have taken very different paths in life. Boys who'd grown up together. Befriended each other in childhood. (Harvey has a big heart). They had their first sexual experience under the same car roof. One's married and trying to live a normal life, the other can't succeed in having a normal life. Matt comes to town after ten years away "at recess" in Alaska. His child, a beautiful little girl falls in love with her Daddy (again). His oldest dearest friend (Yeah, we broke a lot of hymens together) Harvey has trouble remembering Matt's name at times. Matt has a strange effect on Harvey's life. Harvey begins regressing. Regressing into something he hates to think he is. Leaving his emotionally hungry wife alone, he travels with Matt. He can't say "No" to Matt. They're what Matt calls "Asshole Buddies" Matt draws trouble. Matt is trouble. Matt is a drinker, a womanizer and a roustabout trying desperately to make up for the fact that he's a flaming homosexual. Harvey finally realizes what his old friend is up to when during a murder of a sexual pervert who's "had" Matt at gunpoint. Matt then confesses to Harvey that he "sucked and swallowed .. liked it too." Matt then crawls onto the hood of his truck which he's deliberately planted on a railroad track. He howls with all his might as he watches the train approach, gets plastered to smithereens while his only friend in the world witnesses the whole thing. The most effective part of this film is the end when Benedict takes us back to their childhood and explains a bit. This film is worth watching simply for the closing.
Plus Keith has written the song.
Plus Keith has written the song.