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Akron

7.2/10
TMDB175 votes
2015Original: English88 min

Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they embark on a new relationship. But a tragic event in the past involving their mothers soon comes to light and threatens to tear them apart.

Genres: Romance, Drama
Cast: Matthew Frias, Edmund Donovan, Andréa Burns, Amy da Luz, Joseph Melendez

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About Akron

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Akron (2015) is a film in the romance, drama genres. Directed by Brian O'Donnell, Sasha King. The cast includes Matthew Frias, Edmund Donovan, Andréa Burns, Amy da Luz.

Released
2015-10-06
Original language
English
Runtime
88 minutes
Status
Released
Production countries
United States of America
Production companies
Towpath Productions
Writers
Brian O'Donnell

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Audience reviews

7.2/10 from 175 TMDB votes. Ratings and reviews are supplied by TMDB. Reviews are attributed to their original authors.

CinemaSerf

TMDB member review

A gentle romance based on a slightly far-fetched premiss. Two young men become friends after a game of mud ball; their relationship blossoms until they go on a trip together and discover a shared tragedy in their past that tests the relationships with themselves and their families. It's a low-budget affair; decent enough performances from the two leads - Edmund Donovan and Matthew Frias - but don't expect anything…

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A gentle romance based on a slightly far-fetched premiss. Two young men become friends after a game of mud ball; their relationship blossoms until they go on a trip together and discover a shared tragedy in their past that tests the relationships with themselves and their families. It's a low-budget affair; decent enough performances from the two leads - Edmund Donovan and Matthew Frias - but don't expect anything too substantial. Maybe that's why it works - it is a movie about love (not necessarily gay love) without the usual drug use, effing and blinding and nudity. The "daytime" television feel is maybe what makes the film more remarkable - it's all just so ordinary as to treat same-sex attraction as routine - and that's no bad thing.

kinrich30

TMDB member review

This was as an incredibly good movie and every actor in it did an excellent job. It was both a tragedy and a love story, but definitely worth watching, to say more than that I feel would be giving away too much of the emotional impact of the story.

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What is Akron about?

Benny, a college freshman at the University of Akron, Ohio meets and falls for fellow freshman Christopher at a football game. With the support of their families and friends they embark on a new relationship. But a tragic event in the past involving their mothers soon comes to light and threatens to tear them apart.

Who stars in Akron?

Matthew Frias, Edmund Donovan, Andréa Burns, Amy da Luz, Joseph Melendez, Isabel Rose Machado. See the cast cards above for character names.

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