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{{for|the 2003 pornographic film|Dream Team (2003 pornographic film)}}
{{short description|1999 gay pornographic film, written and directed by Jerry Douglas}}
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|image=Dream Team 1999 DVD variant B.png
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|caption=Front cover of early video release
|caption=One of cover arts of earliest video release
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|producer=Scott Masters
|producer=[[Scott Masters]]
|writer=[[Jerry Douglas (director)|Jerry Douglas]]
|writer=[[Jerry Douglas (director)|Jerry Douglas]]
|director=[[Jerry Douglas (director)|Jerry Douglas]]
|director=Jerry Douglas
|starring=[[Tony Donovan]]<br/>Kurt Young<br/>[[Rick Chase (pornographic actor)|Rick Chase]]
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'''''Dream Team''''' is a 1999 [[gay pornography|gay pornographic]] film, written and directed by Jerry Douglas, starring Tony Donovan, Rick Chase, and Kurt Young, and produced by [[Studio 2000]]. This movie tells the [[Coming-of-age film|coming-of-age]] stories of a group of high school basketball team players who come to terms with their sexualities at a young age in 1957, and later in a 1962 reunion.
'''''Dream Team''''' is a 1999 [[gay pornography|gay pornographic]] film, written and directed by [[Jerry Douglas (director)|Jerry Douglas]], starring Tony Donovan, Rick Chase and Kurt Young, and produced by Studio 2000. This movie tells the [[Coming-of-age film|coming-of-age]] stories of a group of [[high school]] [[basketball team]] players who come to terms with their sexualities at a young age in 1957, and later in a 1962 reunion.


== Plot synopsis ==
== Plot synopsis ==
NOTE: This film has character names. However, names of performers are substituted in this article.
'''NOTE''': This film has character names. However, names of real-life performers are used in this article.


The story is set in Herbert Hoover High School in Heartland Heights, Iowa.<ref name=theguide/> It features seven former high school basketball players, part of the class of 1957, and then shows their five year reunion in 1962.<ref name=friskyfans/><ref name=tlavideo/> The movie switches scenes between high school and the reunion.<ref name=gevi/>
The story is set in Herbert Hoover High School in Heartland Heights, Iowa.<ref name=theguide/> It features seven former high school basketball players, part of the class of 1957, and it then shows their five-year reunion in 1962.<ref name=friskyfans/><ref name=tlavideo/> The movie switches scenes between high school and the reunion.<ref name=gevi/>


In 1962, Rick Chase is now an actor in California. [[Aaron Lawrence (entrepreneur)|Aaron Lawrence]] becomes a [[reverend]] primarily to repress his homosexuality and his love for Chase.<ref name=gevi/> Tony Donovan is unhappily married with wife and children,<ref name=tlavideo/> and Kurt Young cruises around with men and women.<ref name=gevi/> Scott Lyons has turned to drink.<ref name=tlavideo/><ref name=gevi/> Kristian Brooks and Lucas James are secret lovers.<ref name=gevi/>
In 1962, Rick Chase is now an actor in [[California]]. Aaron Lawrence becomes a reverend primarily to repress his [[homosexuality]] and his love for Chase.<ref name=gevi/> Tony Donovan is unhappily married with a wife and children,<ref name=tlavideo/> and Kurt Young cruises around with men and women.<ref name=gevi/> Scott Lyons has [[Alcoholism|turned to drink]].<ref name=tlavideo/><ref name=gevi/> Kristian Brooks and Lucas James are secret lovers.<ref name=gevi/>


In one scene, Chase and Lyons perform [[fellatio]] on each other in 1957 and [[anal sex|anal penetration]] in 1962. In another, sexually frustrated married men Donovan and Young make love to each other in both years in the same basement, filled with pictures of naked women. (In 1962, they are blindfolded.) In another scene, lovers Brooks and James engage in a threesome with Lawrence, who later leaves two alone to let them penetrate each other. In another, after the basketball team loses often, the coach (Preston Richie) "locks up seven players in the locker room", where they create an orgy. Later, they win the basketball game. In the final scene, set in 1962, Chase and Lawrence admit their feelings for each other and then make love.<ref name=gevi/>
In one scene, Chase and Lyons perform [[fellatio]] on each other in 1957 and [[anal sex|anal penetration]] in 1962. In another, sexually frustrated married men Donovan and Young make love to each other in both years in the same basement, filled with pictures of naked women (In 1962, they are blindfolded though). In another scene, lovers Brooks and James engage in a [[threesome]] with Lawrence, who later leaves the two alone to let them penetrate each other. In another, after the basketball team loses often, the coach (Preston Richie) "locks up seven players in the locker room", where they create an [[orgy]]. Later, they win the basketball game. In the final scene, set in 1962, best friends Chase and Lawrence admit their feelings for each other and then have sex.<ref name=gevi/>


== Production ==
== Production ==
The movie was inspired by writer and director Jerry Douglas's own childhood in [[Iowa]] in the 1950s. It was produced by Scott Masters.<ref>Escoffier 2009, [http://books.google.com/books?id=zdDPAcmS9XUC&lpg=PA279&ots=0K-onBzu6Y&dq=%22dream%20team%22%20%22studio%202000%22&pg=PA284#v=onepage&q=%22dream%20team%22&f=false p. 284]. Retrieved July 30, 2012, at ''[[Google Books]]''.</ref> The basement sex scene filled with naked pictures of women was inspired by Douglas's real-life sexual fantasies and his basement room filled with pictures of movie stars, including actors [[James Dean]], [[Farley Granger]], and [[Montgomery Clift]] who sparked those fantasies.<ref>Escoffier 2009, [http://books.google.com/books?id=zdDPAcmS9XUC&lpg=PA279&ots=0K-onBzu6Y&dq=%22dream%20team%22%20%22studio%202000%22&pg=PA129#v=onepage&q=%22dream%20team%22&f=false pp. 128&ndash;129]. Retrieved July 30, 2012, at ''[[Google Books]]''.</ref>
The movie was inspired by writer and director Jerry Douglas's own childhood in [[Iowa]] in the 1950s. It was produced by Scott Masters.<ref>Escoffier 2009, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zdDPAcmS9XUC&q=%22dream+team%22&pg=PA284 p. 284]. Retrieved July 30, 2012, at ''[[Google Books]]''.</ref> The basement sex scene filled with naked pictures of women was inspired by Douglas's real-life sexual fantasies and his basement room that was filled with pictures of [[movie star]]s, including actors [[James Dean]], [[Farley Granger]] and [[Montgomery Clift]] who sparked those fantasies.<ref>Escoffier 2009, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zdDPAcmS9XUC&q=%22dream+team%22&pg=PA129 pp. 128&ndash;129]. Retrieved July 30, 2012, at ''[[Google Books]]''.</ref>


== Reception ==
== Reception ==
A reviewer from the ''Frisky Fans'' website praised the story, acting, and directing with four and a half stars out of five.<ref name=friskyfans/> Keeneye Reeves from ''[[TLA Video]]'' called its story "incredibly hot and romantic" with all four stars.<ref name=tlavideo/> Frank Lee from ''Rad Video'' praised the performances, the writing, and the story setting with five stars.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dream Team|work=A Lane Video|url=http://www.alanevideo.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=66&products_id=2849|accessdate=July 30, 2012}}</ref>
A reviewer from the ''Frisky Fans'' website praised the story, the acting and the directing with four and a half stars out of five.<ref name=friskyfans/> Keeneye Reeves from ''[[TLA Video]]'' called its story "incredibly hot and romantic" with all four stars.<ref name=tlavideo/> Frank Lee from ''Rad Video'' praised the performances, the writing and the story setting with five stars.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dream Team|work=A Lane Video|url=http://www.alanevideo.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=66&products_id=2849|accessdate=July 30, 2012}}</ref>


Giacomo Tramontagna from ''The Guide'' found sex scenes "beautifully orchestrated" and the movie an "instant classic" and "the best story-driven gay video in years" with four stars.<ref name=theguide/> Tramontagna said that Rick Chase in this video appears to resemble actor [[Farley Granger]]. Moreover, he found Chase's story with Scott Lyons more convincing than with Aaron Lawrence as "best friends".<ref name=theguide/>
Giacomo Tramontagna from ''The Guide'' found the sex scenes "beautifully orchestrated", the movie an "instant classic" and "the best story-driven gay video in years" with four stars.<ref name=theguide/> Tramontagna said that Rick Chase in this video appears to resemble actor [[Farley Granger]]. Moreover, he found Chase's story with Scott Lyons more convincing than with Aaron Lawrence as "best friends".<ref name=theguide/>


Butch Harris from ''ManNet'' praised the movie with its [[Coming-of-age film|coming-of-age tales]] as an "excellent period piece".<ref name=gevi/> Jeremy Spencer from ''GayVideoDad'' (part of the defunct ''[[Gay Chicago]] Magazine''<ref>{{cite news|author=Remington, Chad|accessdate=July 30, 2012|date=November 2, 2007|title=Studio 2000 Re-releases ''Dream Team''|website=[[Adult Video Network]]|url=http://business.avn.com/articles/gay/Studio-2000-Re-releases-Dream-Team-22841.html}}</ref>) called it the "best" and praised its acting, sexual performances, story, and directing.<ref name=gevi/> Jeffrey Escoffier from his book ''Bigger Than Life'' called it "a historical [[allegory]] illustrating the significance of [[gay liberation]]."<ref name=Escoffier/> Escoffier compared the misery of [[closeted]]ness among small-town boys in the 1950s and "sexual happiness" among them at their reunion in the 1960s.<ref name=Escoffier>Escoffier 2009, [http://books.google.com/books?id=zdDPAcmS9XUC&lpg=PA279&ots=0K-onBzu6Y&dq=%22dream%20team%22%20%22studio%202000%22&pg=PA285#v=onepage&q=%22dream%20team%22&f=false p. 285]. Retrieved July 30, 2012, at ''[[Google Books]]''.</ref>
Butch Harris from ''ManNet'' praised the movie with its [[Coming-of-age film|coming-of-age tales]] as an "excellent [[period piece]]".<ref name=gevi/> Jeremy Spencer from ''GayVideoDad'' (part of the defunct ''[[Gay Chicago]] Magazine''<ref>{{cite news|author=Remington, Chad|accessdate=July 30, 2012|date=November 2, 2007|title=Studio 2000 Re-releases ''Dream Team''|work=[[Adult Video Network]]|url=http://business.avn.com/articles/gay/Studio-2000-Re-releases-Dream-Team-22841.html|archive-date=November 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141123184703/http://business.avn.com/articles/gay/Studio-2000-Re-releases-Dream-Team-22841.html|url-status=live}}</ref>) called it the "best" and praised its acting, sexual performances, story and directing.<ref name=gevi/> Jeffrey Escoffier from his book ''Bigger Than Life'' called it "a historical [[allegory]] illustrating the significance of [[gay liberation]]."<ref name=Escoffier/> Escoffier compared the misery of [[closeted]]ness among small-town boys in the 1950s and "sexual happiness" among them at their reunion in the 1960s.<ref name=Escoffier>Escoffier 2009, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zdDPAcmS9XUC&q=%22dream+team%22&pg=PA285 p. 285]. Retrieved July 30, 2012, at ''[[Google Books]]''.</ref>


In 2000, this film won [[GayVN Awards]] for Best Gay Video and Best Director (Jerry Douglas).<ref name=tlavideo/> It also won [[Grabby Awards]] for Best Romance Video and Best Romance Screenplay (Douglas).<ref name=gevi/><ref>{{cite web|year=2000|accessdate=July 30, 2012|url=http://www.grabbys.com/winners-2000.html|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20080619003605/http://www.grabbys.com/winners-2000.html|title=2000 Grabby Award Nominees & Winners|work=[[Grabby Awards]]|archivedate=June 19, 2008, by ''[[Internet Archive]]''}}</ref> It also won [[Gay Erotic Video Awards]] for Best Gay Video, Best Screenplay (Douglas), Best Director (Douglas), and Best Non-Sexual Role (Preston Richie).<ref name=gevi/>
In 2000, this film won [[GayVN Awards]] for Best Gay Video and Best Director (Jerry Douglas).<ref name=tlavideo/> It also won [[Grabby Awards]] for Best Romance Video and Best Romance Screenplay (Douglas).<ref name=gevi/><ref>{{cite web| year=2000| accessdate=July 30, 2012|url=http://www.grabbys.com/winners-2000.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619003605/http://www.grabbys.com/winners-2000.html|title=2000 Grabby Award Nominees & Winners|work=[[Grabby Awards]]|archivedate=June 19, 2008}}</ref> It also won [[Gay Erotic Video Awards]] for Best Gay Video, Best Screenplay (Douglas), Best Director (Douglas) and Best Non-Sexual Role (Preston Richie).<ref name=gevi/>


== Notes ==
==References==
<references>
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<ref name=tlavideo>{{cite web|deadurl=no|url=http://www.tlavideo.com/gay-dream-team/p-105529-3|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20100323023158/http://www.tlavideo.com/gay-dream-team/p-105529-3|archivedate=March 23, 2010, by ''[[Internet Archive]]''|accessdate=July 30, 2012|work=[[TLA Video]]|title=Dream Team (1999)}}</ref>
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<ref name=friskyfans>{{cite web|accessdate=July 30, 2012|title=Dream Team|author=Frisky Boy|url=http://www.friskyfans.org/reviews/dreamteam.htm|work=Frisky Fans}}</ref>
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<ref name=gevi>{{cite web|url=http://www.gayeroticvideoindex.com/V/9/2829.html|title=Dream Team|accessdate=July 30, 2012|work=Gay Erotic Video Index}}</ref>
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<ref name=theguide>{{cite web|author=Tramontagna, Giacomo|date=September 1999|work=The Guide|url=http://archive.guidemag.com/magcontent/invokemagcontent.cfm?ID=632617A8-D4EC-11D3-AD910050DA7E046B|title=Gay Video Review: ''The Dream Team''|accessdate=July 31, 2012}}</ref>
</references>

=== References ===
* {{cite book|title=Bigger than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore|author=Escoffier, Jeffrey|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7867-20101|publisher=Running Press Book Publishers|location=Philadelphia|lccn=2008939356}}
* {{cite book|title=Bigger than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore|author=Escoffier, Jeffrey|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7867-20101|publisher=Running Press Book Publishers|location=Philadelphia|lccn=2008939356}}
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<ref name=tlavideo>{{cite web|url-status=live|url=http://www.tlavideo.com/gay-dream-team/p-105529-3|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323023158/http://www.tlavideo.com/gay-dream-team/p-105529-3|archivedate=March 23, 2010|accessdate=July 30, 2012|work=[[TLA Video]]|title=Dream Team (1999)}}</ref>
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<ref name=friskyfans>{{cite web|accessdate=July 30, 2012|title=Dream Team|author=Frisky Boy|url=http://www.friskyfans.org/reviews/dreamteam.htm|work=Frisky Fans|archive-date=February 23, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223210242/http://www.friskyfans.org/reviews/dreamteam.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
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<ref name=gevi>{{cite web|url=http://www.gayeroticvideoindex.com/V/9/2829.html|title=Dream Team|accessdate=July 30, 2012|work=Gay Erotic Video Index}}</ref>
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<ref name=theguide>{{cite web|author=Tramontagna, Giacomo|date=September 1999|work=The Guide|url=http://archive.guidemag.com/magcontent/invokemagcontent.cfm?ID=632617A8-D4EC-11D3-AD910050DA7E046B|title=Gay Video Review: ''The Dream Team''|accessdate=July 31, 2012|archive-date=March 4, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031809/http://archive.guidemag.com/magcontent/invokemagcontent.cfm?ID=632617A8-D4EC-11D3-AD910050DA7E046B|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}


== External links ==
==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0315520|Dream Team}}
* {{IMDb title|0315520|Dream Team}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100227025250/http://www.iafd.com/title.rme/title%3DDream+Team/year%3D1999/dream-team.htm ''Dream Team'' at IAFD]


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Latest revision as of 17:42, 24 September 2024

Dream Team
One of cover arts of earliest video release
Directed byJerry Douglas
Written byJerry Douglas
Produced byScott Masters
StarringTony Donovan
Kurt Young
Rick Chase
Production
company
Studio 2000
Release date

Dream Team is a 1999 gay pornographic film, written and directed by Jerry Douglas, starring Tony Donovan, Rick Chase and Kurt Young, and produced by Studio 2000. This movie tells the coming-of-age stories of a group of high school basketball team players who come to terms with their sexualities at a young age in 1957, and later in a 1962 reunion.

Plot synopsis

[edit]

NOTE: This film has character names. However, names of real-life performers are used in this article.

The story is set in Herbert Hoover High School in Heartland Heights, Iowa.[1] It features seven former high school basketball players, part of the class of 1957, and it then shows their five-year reunion in 1962.[2][3] The movie switches scenes between high school and the reunion.[4]

In 1962, Rick Chase is now an actor in California. Aaron Lawrence becomes a reverend primarily to repress his homosexuality and his love for Chase.[4] Tony Donovan is unhappily married with a wife and children,[3] and Kurt Young cruises around with men and women.[4] Scott Lyons has turned to drink.[3][4] Kristian Brooks and Lucas James are secret lovers.[4]

In one scene, Chase and Lyons perform fellatio on each other in 1957 and anal penetration in 1962. In another, sexually frustrated married men Donovan and Young make love to each other in both years in the same basement, filled with pictures of naked women (In 1962, they are blindfolded though). In another scene, lovers Brooks and James engage in a threesome with Lawrence, who later leaves the two alone to let them penetrate each other. In another, after the basketball team loses often, the coach (Preston Richie) "locks up seven players in the locker room", where they create an orgy. Later, they win the basketball game. In the final scene, set in 1962, best friends Chase and Lawrence admit their feelings for each other and then have sex.[4]

Production

[edit]

The movie was inspired by writer and director Jerry Douglas's own childhood in Iowa in the 1950s. It was produced by Scott Masters.[5] The basement sex scene filled with naked pictures of women was inspired by Douglas's real-life sexual fantasies and his basement room that was filled with pictures of movie stars, including actors James Dean, Farley Granger and Montgomery Clift who sparked those fantasies.[6]

Reception

[edit]

A reviewer from the Frisky Fans website praised the story, the acting and the directing with four and a half stars out of five.[2] Keeneye Reeves from TLA Video called its story "incredibly hot and romantic" with all four stars.[3] Frank Lee from Rad Video praised the performances, the writing and the story setting with five stars.[7]

Giacomo Tramontagna from The Guide found the sex scenes "beautifully orchestrated", the movie an "instant classic" and "the best story-driven gay video in years" with four stars.[1] Tramontagna said that Rick Chase in this video appears to resemble actor Farley Granger. Moreover, he found Chase's story with Scott Lyons more convincing than with Aaron Lawrence as "best friends".[1]

Butch Harris from ManNet praised the movie with its coming-of-age tales as an "excellent period piece".[4] Jeremy Spencer from GayVideoDad (part of the defunct Gay Chicago Magazine[8]) called it the "best" and praised its acting, sexual performances, story and directing.[4] Jeffrey Escoffier from his book Bigger Than Life called it "a historical allegory illustrating the significance of gay liberation."[9] Escoffier compared the misery of closetedness among small-town boys in the 1950s and "sexual happiness" among them at their reunion in the 1960s.[9]

In 2000, this film won GayVN Awards for Best Gay Video and Best Director (Jerry Douglas).[3] It also won Grabby Awards for Best Romance Video and Best Romance Screenplay (Douglas).[4][10] It also won Gay Erotic Video Awards for Best Gay Video, Best Screenplay (Douglas), Best Director (Douglas) and Best Non-Sexual Role (Preston Richie).[4]

References

[edit]
  • Escoffier, Jeffrey (2009). Bigger than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7867-20101. LCCN 2008939356.
  1. ^ a b c Tramontagna, Giacomo (September 1999). "Gay Video Review: The Dream Team". The Guide. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved July 31, 2012.
  2. ^ a b Frisky Boy. "Dream Team". Frisky Fans. Archived from the original on February 23, 2012. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Dream Team (1999)". TLA Video. Archived from the original on March 23, 2010. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Dream Team". Gay Erotic Video Index. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
  5. ^ Escoffier 2009, p. 284. Retrieved July 30, 2012, at Google Books.
  6. ^ Escoffier 2009, pp. 128–129. Retrieved July 30, 2012, at Google Books.
  7. ^ "Dream Team". A Lane Video. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
  8. ^ Remington, Chad (November 2, 2007). "Studio 2000 Re-releases Dream Team". Adult Video Network. Archived from the original on November 23, 2014. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
  9. ^ a b Escoffier 2009, p. 285. Retrieved July 30, 2012, at Google Books.
  10. ^ "2000 Grabby Award Nominees & Winners". Grabby Awards. 2000. Archived from the original on June 19, 2008. Retrieved July 30, 2012.
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