| | Circuit DVD (9 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Adult Audience DVDs, Gay/Lesbian Movies, Dramas Videos, Alternative Music, Sex, Los Angeles, California, Alternative-Lifestyle, Gays, Filmmakers, Homosexuality, AIDS (Disease), Homoeroticism | | Starring | Andre Khabbazi, Jonathan Wade-Drahos, Nancy Allen, William Katt, Kiersten Warren, Daniel Kucan, Brian Lane-Green, Paul Lekakis | | Director | Dirk Shafer | | Cameo | Jim J. Bullock | | Composer | Tony Moran | | Director of Photography | Joaquin Sedillo | | Producer | Steven J. Wolfe, Gregory Hinton, Michael Roth | | Screenwriter | Dirk Shafer, Gregory Hinton |
From Director Dirk Schafer, whose "Man of the Year" pulled women's magazine centerfolds out of the closet, comes this sultry hyper-kinetic drama set in the sex-and-pecs, music and steroid world of the circuit party scene-where drugs flow and inhibitions fall on the sweaty dance floor. John is a closeted small-town cop who moves to L.A., where he is quickly seduced into a new lifestyle. As John falls deeper and deeper into a spiral of drugs and carousing, his one chance for redemption lies in the arms of his new boyfriend. After he's outed at his Midwestern precinct, gay cop John (Jonathan Wade Drahos) heads to Los Angeles to stay with his cousin Tad (Daniel Kucan), a documentary filmmaker chronicling the local gay scene. Naïve and closeted for a little too long, John only needs one little sniff and he's totally sucked into the world of "circuit" parties, drug-fueled gay raves full of steamy sex, thumping disco, steroid-amped bodies, and soap opera-style interpersonal drama. Soon his life is spiraling out of control and it's time to learn some valuable lessons.
Ex-Playgirl centerfold Dirk Shafer directs CIRCUIT from a script he wrote with producer Gregory Hinton. There's lots of drug use, vanity, angst, groping, and softcore sex (bed sheets and shadows mask total full frontal nudity). Kiersten Warren adds some estrogen and humor as John's college pal who has also come to L.A. to pursue her career as a stand-up comic. Jim J. Bullock (TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT) appears as a drag queen, William Katz and Nancy Allen are married party promoters caught up in a scam involving AIDS and life insurance. Many of the scenes were filmed at actual circuit parties (including the notorious "White Party"), with the attendees acting as extras. Theatrical Release: MAY 3, 2002 (NY) Circuit Reviews: "...Dirk Shafer's lively CIRCUIT is at once a sexy soap opera, at times lurid and bathetic, and also a gritty cautionary tale made by a filmmaker honest enough to have it both ways..."-- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times "...It is often captivating and appropriately saddening..."
-- Andrew Patner, Chicago Sun-Times Circuit | List Price | $9.99 (You save $3.10) | | Studio | TLA Releasing | | Orig Year | 2002 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  1617  | | CD Universe Part number | 5314710 | | Catalog number | 19 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Dec 31, 2002 | | Rating | Unrated | | Running Time | 130 Minutes | | Additional Info | Unrated | | Movie Details | Color; Digital Sound; Stereo Sound; Unrated; Unrated Version |
Circuit Movie Review Average Rating: (4.1 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Very powerful movie
This movie was very well written, well directed, and the acting was great. It gives a blunt look at the party circuit. It acknowledges the excitement of it, the comraderie, and the intensity but it also shows the intense emptiness of it and the fact that a the circuit life of drug abuse goes nowhere.
Submitted by msgosbee (San Diego, CA, USA)
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 best of the best
this movie has great story line, u gotta watch it! great scene, great actors, great story, not to mention hot & sexy.
Submitted by remusyau (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) 
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GOTTA HAVE IT
GREAT MOVIE
Submitted by Gregg (Orlando,Fl)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No WELCOME TO REAL WORLD
AN IMPRESIVE MOVIE WITH A REAL THEME
Submitted by a reviewer (MEXICO)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No An honest portrait of the circuit!
Circuit is a well made and honest look at gay circuit parties with all its excitement and pitfalls.
The characters are all well developed and the direction can't get better. This DVD includes the largest selection of deleted scenes I've seen in a DVD before that also gives the audience a glimpse of how complicated movie making can get at certain times.
Circuit is the best gay theme movie of the year!
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Circuit DVD Region 1
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Unrated
Audio:
Dolby Digital Stereo - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailers
Deleted Scenes
Audio Commentary: Dirk Shafer - Director
Interactive Features:
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