Jump, Darling, starring a fabulous Cloris Leachman in one of her final film roles, to the sexy-cute 2018 Dutch rom-com Just Friends, and now Jared Frieder’s so-so new dramedy Three Months (★★☆☆☆).Besides exploring and/or exploiting that cross-generational conduit of support and affection, Three Months, like Darling, offers a seemingly juicy role to an Oscar-winning screen legend.
In this case, Ellen Burstyn lends a touch of gravitas portraying loving grandma Valerie to gay south Florida high schooler Caleb, played with deadpan snark and sometimes seething anger by pop star Troye Sivan.Caleb’s open and honest relationship with Val is just one of the pillars of support he leans on during the crisis hinted at in the film’s title.
Recently exposed to HIV during an accidentally unsafe sexual encounter, Caleb is told by Dr. Diaz (Javier Muñoz) that it’ll take three months of negative test results to definitively confirm that he hasn’t contracted the virus.
The stage is thus set for Caleb’s summer of anxiety and suspense, as he awaits his results, weighs his options for life after graduation, and unexpectedly falls for Estha (Viveik Kalra), a semi-closeted teen experiencing his own major crisis.Set in 2011, for no reason that discernibly impacts the story, the film relays through Caleb’s tale a message as important then as it is now, that testing positive for HIV no longer confers a death sentence.
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