Hate Crime (DVD)

A review of the film only, the region 2 DVD was released in October 2008. Robbie Levinson and Trey McCoy live together in a quiet US suburb. Openly gay, they are broadly welcomed and accepted by the neighbourhood and have been together for more than five years. But their peaceful existence is shattered when Chris Boyd, the son of a local pastor, moves into the property next door. Devoutly religious, Boyd reviles everything about them, leading to simmering tensions and bad feeling between the two households. When Trey takes the couple's dog for a walk late one night, the small dog returns alone and Robbie knows that something terrible has happened. But who was ...  Read the complete review

Trey and Robbie have everything going for them - they have good jobs, are young and in love, and their family and neighbours are more than happy that they are homosexual. That is, until a new neighbour, Chris Boyd, moves in next door. Horrified and disgusted that his neighbours are gay, it isn't long before he makes his feelings perfectly clear - as a man of the Church and son of a pastor, he believes that homosexuality is unnatural and should be outlawed. Then one night, Trey takes his dog out for a walk in the nearby park. He never returns to the house. Robbie finds him in the park battered to within an inch of his life and he is later to die in hospital. Robbie is ...  Read the complete review