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One of the best movies of my lifetime. I have watched over and over. Definitely a feel good movie. It made me want to move there just to be around the people who lived there. And of course the views. Moving, accepting and deep it has real empathy on many levels. The only reason this movie would get a low number review is because the intimacy expressed is too much for the average person. They would give some other reason why they didn't like it but I just loved the dynamics between the characters.

Watchable not memorable. Corny and predictable and purely fantastical.

Yes, it is cheesy and campy, but it's a romance movie, and that's why we watch them. This is my favorite romance movie, this beautiful small country community coming together to support each other, with the main characters all finding love and acceptance with who you are. slightly slow but life in a small town often is <3 great movie, very progressive and heartwarming

I have been wanting a 90's gay rom com, and this movie (released in 2000) gets pretty close to being that, although it leans more towards drama than comedy. This movie has a lot of charm, Which I think comes from the supporting cast of characters, who are all gay-friendly old white people - very surprising on a first viewing, but after which you can appreciate how sweet and important these characters are to making Big Eden feel like, well, an Eden.

Wonderful film with great characters and a wide open view of life reflected in gorgeous music and topography.

Ridiculous gay fantasy about return home to small town Montana. Big Eden, in 2000, is apparently the most gay friendly city in all of the United States. The protagonist is selfish and unlikable. The guy with the secret crush is nearly psychotic with his shyness. There are cute aspects to this movie and it's not hard to watch in spite of it's enormous flaws.

Definitely radical for daring to imagine a small town that accepts the gay characters as any other characters and it's subtle and upbeat and corny all at the same time. Uplifting with a brain and culturally diverse without making a big deal. Awesome. The gold standard for me for LGBT movies.

Big Eden is to me, the pinnacle of gay cinema. It's the movie young gay people need to see after every other gay film that sees us bullied to death or driven apart by fear or judgement. To criticize it for it's unrealistic portrayal of a small town with no homophobia to be found, is to completely miss the point - we deserve to have a movie where we get to see people like us fall in love and not be hated for it, and to see them not hate themselves. I didn't see anything wrong with the acting, either. For the rest of my life, I don't think I'll ever be as impressed and wholeheartedly pleased with another gay romance as I am with Big Eden. Forgive the dramatics.

Definitely unfairly judged in my opinion; this a beautiful romcom that explores sexuality without being exploitative and abusive towards the gay men in it. Sweet natured, feel good, everything an LGBT person actually wants in a movie, but maybe not so much what a straight person who prefers to see us suffer on screen is looking for. Big eden is just as charming and as realistic as your own favorite straight romcom - and deserves to be judged the same way you would that. As An extremely refreshing and genuinely heartfelt movie that will stick with me for a long time.

Gosh Darn adorable without being too sappy. Also, a far better Edward-Jacob rivalry.

Gets better towards the middle.

Beautiful movie and I end up crying by the end.

A good story idea, badly told. The scenery was beautiful. The acting was ok for a local theater, but not Hollywood caliber. It has a feel good ending, so there's also that. Meh...

Fine piece of whimsy. Wait for the last scene!

A beautiful and very sweet movie. Corny and awkward at parts, but it's your traditional man/woman romance story but with gay men instead. The fact that they're gay never sparks any hate from any characters in the film, which is so refreshing. The main characters are all middle aged men, and it's so incredible to watch an LGBT movie that isn't centered around young white gay boys who are closeted and have to experience constant homophobia from their small town. It's almost a complete reversal of that kind of movie, where a gay man goes back to his home town and finds it's what he wanted and needed all along. It's an idyllic fantasy of a town that doesn't exist, but should. An instant favorite and I highly recommend.

Big Eden is a beautiful movie. The music and the scenery complement the story with incredible precision. The imagery of the mountain and lake settings are breathtaking. The plot is a bit difficult to follow at times, but that adds to the mystique of the movie.

Seriously bad. I don't know what the prerequisites to be in this movie were, but "can't act" might have been one of them perhaps? Strange, weird and sloooowwww ... the acting is so bizarrely unnatural and stiff. And the chemistry between the MCs is so ambiguous and confusing I never quite knew what was going on and things just seemed to happen out of the blue without warning. The humorous interludes fell so flat it was kinda embarrassing actually. The angst interjected into this story was artificial and cringworthy. The folksy portrayal of people and places was somewhat strained, cliched and almost annoying. Oh god ... stay away from this one ...

Only a few of the scenes made me enjoy this story,which had a really flat and cliche plotThe main disappointment was for me the central strolyine and it felt for me wrong in so many levels.

I love this movie! A little gem I came across, that I enjoyed so much, that I bought the DVD. It's a typical love story in which one person is in love with another, but that person loves someone else. At least until he realizes that love is another direction. What's unusual about this film is that all the principles are male and yet the fact that they are gay comes as an afterthought, and not a political statement. It's not that I dislike "gay" films with a political bent, but it was refreshing to see a simple love story. Arye Gross and Eric Schweig are wonderful. Schweig as the quiet, soft spoken "Pike" who has been secretly holding a torch for Gross's character since high school. And Gross as the still somewhat closeted artist grandson, who has returned home to Montana to care for his ailing grandfather. There is no gratuitous sex for those terrified of seeing two males together in a lustful embrace. But there is a lot of gentle humor, unspoken love, empathy and an incredible lack of prejudice amongst the townsfolk. Probably the only sign of wishful thinking by the writers. Otherwise it's just pure fun and enjoyable, no matter how many times I watch it.