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Director
  
Tadeo Garcia

Running time
  
1h 30m

Country
  
United States

6/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Genres
  
LGBT, Drama

Language
  
English, Spanish

On the Downlow movie poster

Release date
  
2004

Writer
  
Roger B. Domian (screenplay), Roger B. Domian (story), Tadeo Garcia (story)

Cast
  
Tony Sancho
(Isaac),
Michael Cortez
(Angel),
Donato Cruz
(Reaper),
Felipe Camacho
(Priest (as Phil Camacho)),
Carmen Cenko
(Isaac's mother),
Jonathan Rodriguez
(Adam)

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,
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,
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,
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,
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Tagline
  
Two gangs. One secret. One crossroad.

Waze odyssey on the downlow w o street tracks


On the Downlow is the 2004 debut film of director Tadeo Garcia, a low-budget film starring Michael Cortez and Tony Sancho.

Contents

Proving very popular with the film critics and the public, it was released on DVD on January 9, 2007.

Synopsis

On the Downlow is a love story set in Little Village, Chicago, between Angel (Michael Cortez) and Isaac (Tony Sancho), two warmly human, supportive, sensitive young men. Their affection to each other is shown in a long kiss in a dark alley in Chicago, and later on, in a musical sequence in the film. Isaac also questions his sexuality in a long confession with a priest in the church.

Angel, in order to be with his secret lover Isaac gives up his allegiance to his former Latin Kings gang and pledges to Isaac's Southside Chicago's Two Six gang led by Reaper (Donato Cruz) after a cruel initiation beating. Although the film uses names of actual gangs in the area, the introduction to the film says there is no direct relation to the actual gang names used.

When Reaper is later informed that Angel is an ex-gang member of the rival Latin Kings gang, he decides that Isaac should kill him. Issac desperately tries to arrange for him and Angel to escape Chicago but the inevitable happens and the gang captures Angel. When Isaac refuses to execute Angel, Reaper does the job. Isaac then kills Reaper and then commits suicide.

Cast

  • Michael Cortez as Angel
  • Tony Sancho as Isaac
  • Donato Cruz as Reaper
  • Beatriz Jamaica as Angel's Mother
  • Carmen Cenko as Isaac's Mother
    • in alphabetical order
  • Felipe Camacho as Priest (credited as Phil Camacho)
  • Eric Ambriz as Jimmy
  • Jimmy Borras Jr. as Niko
  • Juan Castaneda as Hector
  • Eddie Cruz as Esau
  • Jason R. Davis as Store Customer
  • Jeff Docherty as Dorvak's Partner
  • Perry Flores as Officer Dorvak
  • Russell Foster as Man in Yard
  • Ricardo Garcia as Jesus
  • Nicolas Gomez as Ozzy
  • Brian Parenti as Pinto
  • Adelina Quinones as Laura
  • Octavio Rivas as Raul
  • Jonathan Rodriquez as Adam
  • Pricilla Santiago as Burger Joint Girl
  • Roberto Soto as Store Owner
  • Tatiana Suarez-Pico as Mother on Stairs
  • Andrew Todaro as Mike

    • Awards

  • Won "Best Narrative Feature Film" at the New York Newfest Film Festival

    • References

    On the Downlow Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    On the Downlow IMDb On the Downlow themoviedb.org