
Desert Hearts
1985


“Deny nothing.”
83 votes
Two Navy fighter pilots find themselves in the midst of a forbidden relationship throwing their lives and careers into disarray.
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D.M.W. GreerWriters
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This is certainly a story worth telling - the disgraceful and discriminatory treatment of highly trained, professional and committed people in the military (in this case the US, but it's just as applicable elsewhere) because of their sexuality. The problem is that this depiction is just dull - pure and simple. The story of two Navy pilots who dance around each other for far too long before delivering anything of substance is dreadfully slow and unemotional. Even at the end, when an NCIS that neither "Gibbs" nor "Abby" would want anything to do with, investigate their behaviour, the thing strug…
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