I Am Michael

James Franco takes on the tricky role of an “ex-gay” activist in I Am Michael.

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"Not everyone wants to be part of the subculture," insists Michael Glatze (James Franco), in writer-director Justin Kelly's feature debut "I Am Michael."

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Taking a cross-country road trip to make a documentary about LGBT youth, he discovers an openly gay man practicing Christianity and then soon attains a Bible, now questioning if his life is on the correct path.

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"Not everyone wants to be part of the subculture," insists Michael Glatze (James Franco), in writer-director Justin Kelly's feature debut "I Am Michael."

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Taking a cross-country road trip to make a documentary about LGBT youth, he discovers an openly gay man practicing Christianity and then soon attains a Bible, now questioning if his life is on the correct path.

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An unusually nuanced James Franco carries this complex portrait of a man who came out and fought to encourage other LGBT youth before converting to conservative Christianity.

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Justin Kelly's feature debut stars James Franco as a gay man turned Christian pastor, Zachary Quinto as his ex-boyfriend and Emma Roberts as his girlfriend.

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In the late 2000s, Michael Glatze--a former advocate for gay rights and co-founder of Young Gay America, a magazine for LGBT youth--announced that he had embraced Christianity and was no longer gay.

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An unusually nuanced James Franco carries this complex portrait of a man who came out and fought to encourage other LGBT youth before converting to conservative Christianity.

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In the late 2000s, Michael Glatze--a former advocate for gay rights and co-founder of Young Gay America, a magazine for LGBT youth--announced that he had embraced Christianity and was no longer gay.

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Justin Kelly's feature debut stars James Franco as a gay man turned Christian pastor, Zachary Quinto as his ex-boyfriend and Emma Roberts as his girlfriend.

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I Am Michael, is an intermittently affecting — but not entirely convincing — conversion story.

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I Am Michael, is an intermittently affecting — but not entirely convincing — conversion story.

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James Franco is a stand-out in I Am Michael, but the film's specific story struggles to relate on a broader scale.

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James Franco is a stand-out in I Am Michael, but the film's specific story struggles to relate on a broader scale.

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While intellectually laudable, Mr. Kelly’s determined objectivity is so distancing that it takes an inherently intriguing story (based on a 2011 article in The New York Times Magazine) and sucks the life out of it.

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While intellectually laudable, Mr. Kelly’s determined objectivity is so distancing that it takes an inherently intriguing story (based on a 2011 article in The New York Times Magazine) and sucks the life out of it.

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I Am Michael recounts, sometimes artlessly, the true story of Michael Glatze, a gay activist and publishing impresario who renounced rainbow flags to embrace Christ and heterosexuality. It stars James Franco in the title role — casting that proves to be the film's biggest burden.

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I Am Michael recounts, sometimes artlessly, the true story of Michael Glatze, a gay activist and publishing impresario who renounced rainbow flags to embrace Christ and heterosexuality. It stars James Franco in the title role — casting that proves to be the film's biggest burden.

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Justin Kelly's film is more interested in rushing through the narrative's events than contemplating their environment.

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Justin Kelly's film is more interested in rushing through the narrative's events than contemplating their environment.

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