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  This thorny independent movie from writer/director John Baumgartner stars Jonathan Slavin, in a potential star-making tour-de-force performance, as Tim, an unhappy gay man who decides to volunteer for a pharmaceutical study of a pill that's said to turn homosexuals straight. With a gritty, low-budget appeal, thought-provoking subject matter, and occasional doses of humor, HARD PILL examines issues of sexuality, medical ethics, and relationships of all stripes.

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  ""A highly original work...fuelled by a gifted cast and a deeply moving script this suspenseful and provocative debut film is guaranteed to spark conversation"" LA Outfest ""Provocative...taut and well observed""Variety ""An intriguing if not chilling look at a future that is distressingly not inconceivable."" PlanetOut John Baumgartner's debut is a provocative and new film asks the disturbing and challenging question: if you could take a pill to make you straight would you? Chronically single average and unhappy Tim is a frustrated gay man who is desperately short of love even though he is surrounded by good friends. Out of desperation he volunteers for a controversial pharmaceutical study which is designed to make gay men straight. In a last ditch effort to find love and happiness he decides that becoming heterosexual will solve all his problems and make life easier. The drug seems to work for him and he meets Tanya and they embark upon a whirlwind romance cutting him off from his old life. However it soon becomes clear that the drug is wearing off and his life suddenly spirals downward into turmoil and feigns illness to avoid intimacy with Tanya. A final tragedy shocks Tim into facing reality and brings to the forefront the things that really matter in life.