Akron (2015)

Akron: Directed by Sasha King, Brian O’Donnell. With Edmund Donovan, Joseph Melendez, Matthew Frias, Andrea Burns. When David and Christopher, college freshmen, meet at a football game and fall in love, a tragic event from the past threatens to tear them apart.

“As of this writing, I have 2,371 movies in my library. And while having and having watched repeatedly many of the 2,371 movies in my library, I am not a professional movie reviewer. But I believe that I do have an informed opinion about what is good and what is not good in movies overall.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe number of low and lowest ratings that some gave u0026quot;Akronu0026quot; (2015) surprised me, in part because I have given u0026quot;Akronu0026quot; a u0026quot;10u0026quot;. So when I was recently visiting relations in Akron, Ohio, I asked several of my Latino relations about the allegations that a heavily Latino local church may have organized a number of the churchu0026#39;s congregants to write IMDb for the purpose of slamming Akron (2015) because Matthew Frias was Latino and had competently played a gay young man in a very favorable light, within a story line that was very favorable to a gay love affair.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOne of my relations turned out to be one of the church congregants who participated in this fraud, and then happily detailed just how this fraud on IMDb was orchestrated within the church itself. This relation stated that apparently none of the congregants had actually watched u0026quot;Akronu0026quot; or Matthew Frias, or if they had, they had only done so for a few minutes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe moral of this is very simple, as far as I can see. Be very careful when using the ratings assigned to movies that some might find politically charged. And be very, very careful when religious groups target movies like u0026quot;Akronu0026quot; (2015) for whatever reason.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Akronu0026quot; (2015) deserves a u0026quot;10u0026quot; rating for all of the right cinematic reasons.”