Directed By: Charlie Vaughn
Written By: Brandon Alexander III
Cinematography: Olivia Kuan
Editor: Corey Ziemniak
Cast: Brandon Alexander III, Dudley Beene, Lauren Rose Lewis, Michael Turchin, Leigh Wakeford, Karli Keiser, Cassandra Petersen, Jack Plotnick, Judy Tenuta
An uproarious cross-dressing comedy, First Period follows a new girl and an outcast as the most awkward girls in high school. Together, they set out to take over the annual talent contest and win over the whole school.
Watching this film, you can tell it’s a film done out of love. as it is low budget and the actor director and cast are few as are the locations as well as the extras, which are mostly made up of family and friends of the cast and crew.
Especially as most of the cast like most teenage shows and movies of the 1980s look way too old for their roles, which only adds to the films strengths inadvertently.
It is a campy standup of 1980s high school movies that has its main two stars cross-dressing as teenage girls. The film is filled with double entendre in innuendo. It is quite naughty, but sassy.
It is also hilarious as it works as a spoof and homage, As well as it could easily be one of those teenage 1980s films told from a teenage girls point of view.
Lead actor Brandon Alexander III,wrote the screenplay and the film is an excellent launching pad for hikmas an actor, performer and screenwriter
Of course, the stories of service but this is a film that you just sit back watch and enjoy, and it’s over the top brilliance and just have fun with it not a family really think too deeply about in our amazed by the two lead performances as the dialogue and jokes fly so fast and furious. It’s almost like a screwball comedy of its own only lacking the more physical comedy.
fans of the show STRANGERS WITH CANDY will definitely enjoy this film. As it has a similar tone and feel. Only none of its budget.
This is an excellent LGBTQ film that unfortunately I didn’t even knew existed until recently and it’s a shame because it’s truly an undiscovered gem cinematically. It doesn’t offer anything new but this is definitely a comfort film and a film that deserves a cult audience as through it all as ridiculous as it is, the film truly does feel heartfelt.
Hopefully someone decides to do this as a play or stage performance in this films audience can grow. At under 90 minutes,Luckily the phone never wears out. It’s welcome.
Grade: B
