Starcrossed is an 2005 independent short film written and directed by James Burkhammer and produced by POWER UP

Power Up

POWER UP is an American non-profit organization and film production company with the stated mission "to promote the visibility and integration of gay women in entertainment, the arts, and all forms of media". It was founded in 2000 by film producers Stacy Codikow and Amy Shomer...

. It tells the story of Darren and Connor, two teenage brothers who find that their affection for each other is growing beyond the filial.

Plot

Darren and Connor are two brothers who, as teenagers, realize that they have feelings for each other and not just those of brothers. They enter into a romantic and sexual relationship. While happy together, they fear what would happen if their relationship were ever discovered. Their fears are realized when their mother walks in on them sleeping naked together. When Connor overhears their father say that they will never be able to see each other again, the distraught brothers steal a family car and flee to a motel. Deciding that a world that can't understand them is a world in which they do not wish to live, and with a police officer discovering the car, the boys commit suicide by handcuffing themselves to each other through the bottom rung of a ladder in the motel swimming pool.

Cast

• Marshall Allman
  Marshall Allman
  Marshall Scot Allman is an American actor. He is known to television audiences for his role as L. J. Burrows on Fox's successful television series, Prison Break...
  
   - Connor
• J. B. Ghuman, Jr. - Darren
• John Wesley Shipp
  John Wesley Shipp
  John Wesley Shipp is an American actor best known as Mitch Leery, the title character's father on the television drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2001 and for roles in several daytime soap operas...
  
   - Lane, the Father
• Simon Ragaine - Young Darren
• Derek Sean Lara - Young Connor
• Darcy DeMoss
  Darcy DeMoss
  Darcy DeMoss is an American film and television actress whose credits include Eden, Erotic Confessions, Can't Buy Me Love and Vice Academy 3.-External links:...
  
   - Mother
• Gina Rodgers - Amanda
• Torrey DeVitto
  Torrey DeVitto
  Torrey Joel DeVitto is an American actress and former fashion model. She is best known for her roles as Zoe in the 2006 horror film I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, Karen Kerr in the short lived television series Beautiful People, Carrie in The CW series One Tree Hill, and most recently...
  
   - Maura
• Victor Bevine - Football Coach
• Colette Divine - Hotel Clerk
• Steven Guy - Cop

Reception

Starcrossed has gathered a large online cult following that spans continents and has been translated by fans into many languages. Internet rumors of a feature version have appeared but there has been no official announcement.

External links

• Official site
• Starcrossed at the Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database
  Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...