A treasure of the 1990s' New Queer Cinema, Ira Sachs's incisive debut feature moodily evokes the wide space between dreams, desires, and fulfillment in post-Vietnam War America. In Memphis, a city where kids get through their nights by drinking and doing drugs, a romance blossoms between Lincoln, an affluent white teenager, and Minh, the immigrant son of a poor Vietnamese woman and a Black GI.
