#henry gamble's birthday party

[mrprettywhenhecries]

JOE KEERY in HENRY GAMBLE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY (2015)

#joe keery #joekeeryedit #henry gamble's birthday party #gabe #joz.gifs #userstankovich #keerycentral

[joesquaredkq]

Joe Keery as Gabe in “Henry Gamble's Birthday Party″ (2015)

#Joe Keery #Gabe #Henry Gamble's Birthday Party #Gifs #Gifs made by me

[sc00ps-ahoy]

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[jonathanbiers]

JOE KEERY as GABE in HENRY GAMBLE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY (2015)

#stcastedit #joekeeryedit #joe keery #henry gamble's birthday party #we in this now ig #* #*gifs #and if i said. repressed raised catholic steve.............then what

[joseph-munson]

Eddie Munson: How big is yours?

Steve Harrington: Soft or hard?

Eddie Munson: Hard.

Steve Harrington: I don't know. Last time I checked it was, like, six inches, but that was in... like, seventh grade, so it probably grew.

Eddie Munson: Oh.

Steve Harrington: It's probably more like seven now, maybe even eight.

Eddie Munson: Do you want to measure it now?

Steve Harrington: I'm not hard.

Eddie Munson: Oh.

Steve Harrington : Are you?

Eddie Munson: No.

Steve Harrington : How big are YOU?

Eddie Munson: Like... six and a half.

Steve Harrington : That's cool. Not bad.

Eddie and Steve talking about their dick sizes.

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[wen-kexing-apologist]

Bengiyo's Queer Cinema Syllabus

For those who are not aware, I have decided to run the gauntlet of @bengiyo’s Queer Cinema Syllabus and have officially started Unit 3: Faith and Religion. The films in Unit 3 are: But I’m a Cheerleader (2000), Prayers for Bobby (2009), Latter Days (2003), Blackbird (2014), The Wise Kids (2011), Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015)

Today I will be writing about

Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party (2015) dir. Stephen Cone

[Run Time: 1:27, Available on: tubi, Lang: English] 

Summary: Henry Gamble, a 17-year-old preacher's son, wrestles with sexuality, alcoholism and faith during his birthday party.

Cast: *Cole Doleman as Henry Gamble *Elizabeth Laidlaw as Kat Gamble, Henry's mother *Pat Healhy as Bob Gamble, Henry's father *Nina Ganet as Autumn Gamble, Henry's sister *Patrick Andrews as Ricky Matthews, recent suicide survivor *Hanna Dworkin as Bonnie Montgomery, the most miserable woman on the planet *Francis Guinan as Larry Montgomery, Bonnie's husband

(side note, I should start keeping tallies about how many movies on this syllabus come from Wolfe production company)

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Well, we’ve reached the end of the line for Unit 3 with this one, and I have to say, I do think I like this piece from Stephen Cone better than I enjoyed The Wise Kids. (Though, honestly, I probably owe The Wise Kids a rewatch because of where my head was at when I watched that piece.)

Now, I am not religious, and I don’t have the kind of religious trauma that I think would make some of these films speak to me more, and the thing I kind of like with Stephen Cone’s pieces is that the queerness doesn’t intersect with religion as much as religion and queerness exist in the same space, if that makes sense. Like is there some internalized homophobia going on, there is some external homophobia going on, but…The Wise Kids and Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party have seemed more like stories where there are gay, religious kids, rather than the gays (or at least main gay character) suffering under the weight of religion which films such as Prayers for Bobby and Latter Days portray. [Do not get me wrong, gays suffering under the weight of religion is still present in both films, it just feels secondary to the main thread]. 

As such, I think I found myself connecting more, and being more interested in the plot of the mother and her daughter, Autumn as well as to the portrayal of the small town, white, religious adults. Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party is extremely legible in showing what the characters are feeling without really having to say anything about it. You can tell that Henry’s mother is Straight Up Not Having A Good Time Right Now from the first second we see her on screen, you can tell there is some level of tension between her and her husband, you can tell how tenuous Ricky’s stability is from the moment he walks in the door. 

I liked how there was cross talk, and how there were references to people and to conversations that happened that we were not a part of. It makes the film seem real and lived in, I liked how easily I was able to identify the queer kids, and how I suspect a few more characters (cough cough, Jon) are queer and either not aware of it or are hiding/suppressing it. 

But more importantly, I really enjoyed how much of this film was dedicated to water and to wine.

Like, every single time these kids jumped in the pool I could think of nothing else but baptism. Every time an adult poured themselves a mug of wine, and another adult complained about it I could do nothing but think about Jesus turning water to wine, and how the sacrament is taken with wine. Yet here, in the home, the wine must be hidden, the adults can’t be seen drinking around the children, etc. 

And maybe it’s cause I’m no longer 17, but while Henry’s journey throughout the film is important, I spent more time focusing on Kat, on Ricky, and on Bonnie throughout this film. Kat just seems to be going through the routine, stuck in a life it feels like she doesn’t want or possibly never wanted, and being mostly ignored. Ricky is the subject of a lot of conversation and gossip, but no one really knows how to treat him normally after a suicide attempt, and Bonnie is the most miserable woman to ever walk the earth. 

I think what is the most notable to me is how people change over the course of the movie. In water, Henry comes to finally accept his feelings for Logan, in water the very clearly bored adults get to have some fun, those who entered the water exited with change, and those who did not remained relatively the same. The same goes for the wine. The adults that drank wine went through some sort of change, while the adults who didn’t ended up staying relatively the same. By this I mean Bonnie, because she was the only person who did not swim or drink. 

With the wine, Kat tells Autumn a secret, you know the kind that mothers only tell their eldest daughters. With the wine, Kat and Autumn heal a part of their relationship. With the wine, Larry just gets real chill with queer people real quick. With the wine, Kat and Bob end with a separation. 

So I think that was the most compelling aspect. Bonnie is judgemental about sex, porn, etc. and thusly she does not approve of swimming, because of girls being in scantily clad outfits. Bonnie is judgemental about alcohol consumption and thusly she is annoyed that her husband is sneaking wine. Bonnie does not invest in earthly pleasures, and so she is just the most miserable person by a mile and she just spends all of her time making everyone around her miserable as well. She’s just an empty person who does not know how to get out of it, and her personal perception of religion is keeping her excluded from connection and joy. In my opinion at least. 

Ricky is just a kid I feel bad for. He’s trying to get his life back on track, he’s trying to get back some sense of normalcy and instead he is gossiped about constantly and kept in the dark about whether or not he is going to be a camp counselor again. You can see him just constantly trying to hold it together, until he just stuck in the bathroom and can’t get out. Where it all falls to pieces. Now. We hear a rumor about Ricky that we have no way to corroborate, but considering this is a film about faith and religion, let’s just say that the intense self harm that Ricky participates in feels very much like he is trying to absolve himself of sins through some form of self punishment. 

Overall, I think this film was a good one to end on and I am sure it would have a lot more to say to me if I had a better understanding of religion, but this is what I kind of found. 

For/By/About 

I think this one is a By and About queer people film. I don’t think enough of the plot revolved around queerness and religion to really be for queer people. This film seemed more of a rated E for everyone situation 

Favorite Moment

By far my favorite moment of the film is Autumn and Kat talking in the car. I loved this quiet moment between mother and daughter, where Kat allows Autumn to see some of her flaws and where Kat apologizes for any harm she may have caused Autumn over the years. It’s a very vulnerable moment that brought me both sadness and joy.

Favorite Quote

“No. We’re doing it all wrong. You, you’re gay, that’s fine, the Lord made you that way, fine. Fuck it.” 

This is said by one of the older men at the party, Larry, who is piss drunk at this point. But has just witnessed Ricky exiting the party with his mother after a super massive self harm incident, and who I think comes to some pretty quick conclusions about the ways in which religion and faith can have an extremely negative impact. The scene itself does feel a little bit like when Nomi’s mother ate a really good weed brownie at Nomi and Aminita’s wedding and was suddenly cured of her transphobia in Sense8, but nevertheless it is another moment I think of showing transformation through the consumption of wine (aka Christ’s blood). 

Score

8.5/10

I enjoyed this film, found it compelling, thought there was some really great acting, and I absolutely loved how the film ends full circle with the same shot of Henry that we open the film on.

I am knocking half a point off for the fact that I had to watch a straight sex scene in this film (however brief) but there was no queer physical/romantic/sexual intimacy portrayed on screen. (Unless you want to count the masturbation scene at the very beginning of the film, but I think the jury is out on that one). 

And with this I move on to Unit 4: Heartbreak Alley, a section that I am certain will be nothing but sunshine and rainbows, and which I am unsure if I should start before or after the holidays.

#bengiyo queer cinema syllabus #queer cinema syllabus #henry gamble's birthday party #henry gamble's birthday party (2015) #unit 3 #unit 3: faith and religion

[teen--marvel]

i just finished henry gamble and.. it was alright.

will i watch it again? probably not.

#personal #henry gamble's birthday party #joe keery

[honeygleam]

henry gamble's birthday party (2015) dir. stephen cone

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[0nemorestranger]

interestingly enough i can't tell if henry gamble's birthday party was a work of art or painfully mid. but it was maddening that i got queerbaited by joe keery masturbating WITH A GUY WHILE THEY WERE SHARING A BED and did i get to see him kiss a dude? no. the only "racy" scenes aside from the opening jerk-off was a hetero makeout scene and a hetero sex scene that had keery asking for god's forgiveness literally every second. which you'd think would be intriguing but instead it just made me roll my eyes

haven't seen something so queer and yet so homophobic since destiel went canon in 2020

#henry gamble's birthday party #joe keery #indie #kinda wanna rewrite it as an st fic though so there's that

[buckysbarnes]

JOE KEERY as GABE  HENRY GAMBLE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY (2015)

#joe keery #joekeeryedit #henry gamble’s birthday party #filmedit #jkeeryedit #filmgifs #moviegifs #cinematv #** #*jk #© #this movie lfmao #sebastian and joe really do be in the oddest films #anyway i just made this for like a fun second #enjoy this view of him #because ✌🏻😮‍💨 #1k

[mrprettywhenhecries]

JOE KEERY in HENRY GAMBLE'S BIRTHDAY PARTY (2015)

#joe keery #joekeeryedit #henry gamble's birthday party #gabe #it's THAT scene #this was some opening to a movie #and i'm thankful for it lol #joz.gifs #userstankovich #keerycentral

[keery]

Joe Keery in Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party 2015, dir. Stephen Cone

#joe keery #joekeeryedit #henry gamble’s birthday party #*

[dontcallmeeds]

#lord forgive me #also speaking of lord forgive me I watched his scene in Henry gambles birthday party and excuse me??? #stranger thing fandom #joe keery #spree 2020 #kurt kunkle #Kurt’s world #kurtsworld96 #Adam Levine #Adam Levine meme #spree meme

[emsgoodthinkin]

‘forgive me lord, forgive me lord, forgive me lord’

#joe keery #henry gamble’s birthday party #joe keery imagine #steve harrington #steddie imagine #gabe #joe keery smut #forgive me lord

[delving-verilly]

Good night … 😮‍💨😋

Finally caught up with Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party. Nice. Sister’s bestie who ends up shagging little brother’s bestie… yep. I was that chick. They used to call me Cherry Bomb.

Ah memories…

#joe keery #henry gamble’s birthday party #gabe

[teen--marvel]

i’m gonna give henry gamble’s birthday party a try…

if you’ve seen it, am i gonna like it? i’m pretty open to movie genres (aside from horror..)

#personal #henry gamble's birthday party #joe keery