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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0758445904529
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 14, 2004
Running Time: 107 minutes
Sales Rank: 77032
Studio: Sundance Channel Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Editorial Review:
Description:
Dean (Leitch) is trapped in a working class suburb with an abusive father and a doormat mother whose job at a tony London restaurant allows her to regale her son with stories of her famous customers. Dean runs away from home and gets a job at a posh gallery run by Lady Gryffoyn (Quick), who his mother had often waited on. Soon, Dean insinuates himself into the world of the sex, cocaine, and disco upper class set by presenting himself as lady Gryffoyn's son, funding his deceit with credit card fraud. But Dean eventually learns that reinventing oneself comes at a price.
Amazon.com:
AKA has been favorably compared to The Talented Mr. Ripley, and for good reason. A fascinating drama about a young, working-class man's fraudulent claim to aristocracy and subsequent rise among the rich and privileged, AKA has a touch of the thriller about it. Matthew Leitch plays 18-year-old Dean, a handsome, beleaguered fellow abused in every conceivable way by a monstrous father and thwarted in his desire for higher education and a lucrative career. Sheltered and polished by a high-society arts matron, Lady Gryffon (Diana Quick), Dean eventually lands on his feet in Paris, gaining entrance to elite circles by pretending to be Lady Gryffon's son and getting caught between the desire of two men. The smart script by writer-director Duncan Roy plays on the paradox of an ambiguous hero whose attractiveness to the rich and jaded is his emotional authenticity and natural frankness. Leitch's performance is mesmerizing, both cryptic and eerily honest. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Have I seen this story line before?
This is a really gay version of "The Talented Mr Ripley", I liked it and would watch it again.
Rating: - "I knew he wasn't one of us!"
AKA is an interesting film about an interesting story, but I found the movie to be a little overrated. Yes - it's well acted, and considering the subject matter, it's a little over-long, and the sound is so muffled that it's often hard to hear the dialogue. Directed by Duncan Roy, AKA does succeed, however, as a type of modern-version of Vanity Fair turned completely on its head.
Based on a true story and set in England and France in the late 1970s is all about a young man of humble ... Read More
Rating:  - Average film
This british movie is a "queer version" of "Mr Ripley", which is not a bad starting point. However there are too many flaws to say this is a good movie. Some actors are probably not professional, especially some bi-characters are extremely bad, overacting and very ennoying. The story is though interesting enough to be worth seeing. There are so many bad gay movies out there, so this one is far from the worse....
Rating:  - artful and true
AKA is writer/director Duncan Roy's thought-provoking memoir of his own youth. He escaped from a brutal, sexually abusive working-class household by assuming the identity of a young aristocrat and became famous - or notorious - in the process.
Mr. Roy's movie is brilliantly written, directed, and cast. Matthew Leitch is perfect as Dean, the handsome, sweet, innocently seductive young man who desperately wants a better or, to be more precise, another life. His intelligence, looks, charm, ... Read More
Rating: - A good film with a good storyline
Based on a true story of Dean Page. The production quality and audio was good. The acting was good and the main players, believable. The story is of Dean who hates his middle class life and sexually abusive Father. Dean wants to be a nobleman so he steals the identity of a nobleman and assumes his life. Sadly Dean can not afford the cost of being rich and not only limits out his credit card but commits credit fraud to keep up the lie. The only negitive thing about the entire film was Dean's English accent ... Read More
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