Dog Tags (film)
Dog Tags, full title Dog Tags Dont Ask, Dont Tell is a 2008 film written and directed by Damion Dietz starring Paul Preiss and Bart Fletcher.
Both men have domineering mothers and live in broken families. Nates mother Deb Candy Clark is a single mother who hides the real identity of the father Gene Hoyt Richards from her son, although the alcoholic Gene still continues to live a destitute life in the vicinity in a oneroom shack surviving on permanent disability cheques and doing odd jobs on the side. Andys divorced mother Louise Diane Davisson is a former actress that had to leave everything behind to take care of Andy and Andys son Travis blaming her son for her own predicament of a stayhome caretaker considering Andy an almost absent irresponsible father.Nate has to deal with Trish Huddle Amy Lindsay a philandering fiancee, who is anxious to conceive a son from any military guy, almost guiding Nate step by step in the mechanics of a sexual ritual to achieve this. She has no qualms to have intercourse in Nates own residence during his absence with other married military men to achieve having the desired boy as Nate discovers when he calls in home unexpectedly. Meanwhile Nate wants desperately to find his real father, despite grave objections from his mother. He is led to think his father is a married military man called Mark Dessau Keythe Farley, who had a longterm relationship with Deb, Nates mother. Meanwhile Andy is fighting his own demons and is constantly haunted by the memories of his first lover, a Marine played by Justin Mortelliti. Andy is unable to get over the loss of his first love and fails in all his other intimate relationships, despite the fact his relation with the Marine, though intense, never had any chance of survival with the Marine just abandoning him to his misery. When a new guy tries to become intimate with him during a disastrous gettogether scene, Andy confesses his incurable love to the Marine and refuses to go further, which prompts the guy to tell him frankly once a marine, always a marine. Andy is confused by his aspirations to build a future away from home, his sexual ori
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