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Good movie, terrible sound
I enjoy Green Plaid Shirt very much, but it has two critical problems. The most critical issue is the sound. There are substantial passages that are impossible to hear. A less critical but annoying issue is the film editing. For some reason, the director apparently felt a need to tell the story with flashbacks and flashforwards. The effect here is not good cinema or storytelling. It merely seems trendy. The story of the lover who dies from AIDS would actually seem more tender, loving and meaningful if it had simply been told in a straight-forward manner. Indeed, the jumping about seems to diminish the tragedy of his death. The acting is very good and the premise of building a story around a plaid shirt is both effective and appealing. The romance of the two lead characters is tender and caring and is definitely worth experiencing by watching this slightly flawed gem of a movie. We need more gay love stories and this is one to put on your video shelf and watch with someone you care about very much.

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Calm down, it's just a movie
I'm mainly writing this because I'm a little baffled by the anger expressed in so many of the reviews found here.

When I first saw "Green Plaid Shirt" -- on VHS, and yes, as many have noted, the quality of the transfer is agonizingly bad; let's hope some effort is made in this regard for the DVD release -- I was most struck by the relationship between the two main characters. Yes, they are both very attractive (a common criticism of gay films and gay characters which you almost never hear about their straight counterparts), but even better, they both can ACT!

Like most films, the main characters take the main plot. And of course, additional characters will create sub-plots. What is unfortunate is when the sub-plots do not add to the main plot. In which case they actively work against it. That happens with this film as well and it's too bad because there was a lot of potential in the relationship of the two main characters, had Richard Natale wanted to concentrate on them.

I enjoy this film very much for the main story. There are some beautiful and also some unusally moving moments in it. The characters are appealing and multi-dimensional, and the performances (Gregory Phelan and Kevin Spirtas) are both naturalistic and of real quality. As for the rest of it ... I just fast-forward. I'd definitely like to see more from Richard Natale.

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get a new shirt
I gave GREEN PLAID SHIRT three stars for the following reasons; the audio was very poor;( I purchased the DVD version ) turning the treble all the way up on the tone control on my television helped ( there is an apologia before the film begins, perhaps this is what they refer to ); and the film failed to move or inspire me. The acting was good, no problem there, it was one of those movies that goes on and on and on.
The story centers around two people Phillip (Gregory Phelan) and Guy (Kevin Spirtas) who meet at a garage sale in 1978 when Phillip buys a Green Plaid shirt lays it down on a table for a moment to pay for it and Guy picks it up to try it on; of course Phillip informs Guy He had just paid for it and wants it back. Later Phillip is with one of his best friends Jerry at a [same sex] bar and Guy happenes to run into philip there and stops over to say Hello; Phillip asks Guy to join them and next thing you Phillip have become lovers and have moved into together. Two other of Phillips friends Jerry and Deven play a supportive role of the bitchie-stuck up friends who are not impressed with Plillips new lover. Guy developes AIDS ( refered to in the film as the " Gay Disease"), along with Jerry then Devon. Phillip finds his world is collapsing around him. Guy has then "cheated" on Phillip and moved out of the new house they have bought together with his new lover ( Tony ). ...
The film flashes from present to past to present ect.
There are no hardcore [physical] scenes but some body nudity. In my opnion there are better [same sex] films to purchase; ...