Keegan Dark has hyperthymesia which means he has visions of his extremely detailed autobiographical memory. The trouble is that both the visions and his memory are more than a tad fuzzy so it takes us some time to work out what they all can possibly mean. In fact its a good 30 minutes into this convoluted and confusing thriller that we can actually start to grasp what is possibly going on .Keegan drags his urban Belgian boyfriend to make an unannounced visit to his mother for her birthday in the family’s lush winery in the California countryside. Its been two years since he has had any contact with her and so has not just missed her birthday (it was last month) but also her recent marriage. Now he discovers that he not only has a new stepfather but also a hot step-brother who seems to be shirtless every time we see him (he’s played by Sean Paul Lockhart aka ex Porn Star Brent Corrigan).
None of this news pleases sulky Keegan who seems in a permanent funk, and he quickly jumps to the conclusion that the newcomers want to get their hands on the vineyard which he was expecting to inherit. However after waking up after being mysteriously knocked on the head he does some investigating and discovers that ‘father’ and ‘son’ actually can’t keep their hands off each other.
Its no real shocker when mother does get murdered and everyone blames each other about who killed her… and also who is sleeping with who …. and we find that even though Keegan did eventually get laid, he still has that spoilt rich-kid scowl on his face. The weakness of the plot isn’t the worse part of this annoying micro-budget movie, but its the fact that there is zero chemistry between any of the relationships whether it be boyfriend and boyfriend, mother and son, or husband wife. Everybody is so completely detached from each other as we quickly become from them.
If only Keegan had remembered a better story.
