Bedrooms and Hallways


Bedrooms and Hallways is a 1998 comedydrama film about bisexuality or the fluidity of sexuality. It was written by Robert Farrar and directed by Rose Troche, starring Kevin McKidd, James Purefoy, Tom Hollander, Julie Graham, Simon Callow and Hugo Weaving.

It turns out that his work colleague had encouraged Leo to attend his weekly mens group run by New Age type goofball Keith Simon Callow whose wife is Sybil Harriet Walter. There, Leo meets hunky Irishman Brendan James Purefoy whom he develops a crush on, which he reluctantly reveals to the group. However Brendan is straight and lives with his exgirlfriend Sally Jennifer Ehle who is later revealed to be Leos high school sweetheart. A series of Iron John group exercises leads Brendan and Leo to develop a friendship. As they bond, it becomes clear that Brendans curiosity towards Leo starts to grow in a sexual escalade. In the mens group, one of the other groupsmen become very jealous of Leos friendship with Brendan and that he does not have that with Leo. Brendan fights with the lad over Leo. The friendship is soon to become more, as Brendan appears unexpectedly late one night at Leos door and sleeps with him after which they become something of a couple, to the consternation of one man in their mens group, though it encourages another, Terry Con ONeill, to explore his sexuality.Meanwhile, flamboyant Darren has met real estate agent Jeremy Hugo Weaving, who gets a kick out of having sex in houses for sale he has been given the keys to. However, he is not interested into couply things, despite Darrens attempts. Eventually this leads to them having sex with handcuffs and blindfolds in the bedroom of the house which Sally has on the market, during which she unexpectedly returns home. Jeremy abandons Darren, who dumps him. Leo gets close once more with Sally, and ends up kissing her. Feeling guilty, he leaves in a panic, and ends up telling Brendan what happened, who goes ballistic as he still has feelings for Sally. Leo finds himself in a quandary, and decides to confess to Sally that he is the one who is seeing Brendan Sally had previously believed it was Leos roommate Angie. He inadvertently does so while Brendan is there too, and leaves Brendan to face Sally. ........

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