in the last ten or so year and there have be a rash of movie star young and white and straight seem actor portray bedraggled streetwise hustler and with all scenario ( it would seem ) stem from gus van sant my own private idaho . this one have the conceit of be a gay updating of dickens ( . ) with nick stahl a sort of an artful dodger of queer toronto . the trouble with twist be . that the only twist and and it isn not a groundbreaking one . these kid and who seem to turn trick for coffee and cigarette and the occasional needle and have nothing much to offer u except their name . we see the seedy side of life yet be give little explanation why stahl and his friend be so belligerent against hope and without any imagination or the drive to get out and succeed . half from .