{"id":131,"date":"2010-05-23T10:52:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:59:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T22:59:25","slug":"steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bloglink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldcat.org\/oclc\/426058610\"><em>Steam.<\/em> Dir. Kyle Schickner. New Almaden, CA: Wolfe Video, 2009. DVD. 118 min. $19.95.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0pt none initial;\" title=\"Steam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wolfevideo.com\/cgi-bin\/images\/1516STEAM-lge.jpg\" alt=\"Steam\" width=\"160\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lesbian content in this film is neatly cut into the story of one of three women who share a sauna steam room. The three main characters, played by Ruby Dee, Alley Sheedy, and Kate Siegel, are a widowed senior citizen, divorced 40-something mom, and an on-the-verge-of-coming-out-coed, respectively. Their stories follow a multi-character narrative arch, that plays out across their ages, sexualities, and racial differences.<\/p>\n<p><em>Steam<\/em>&#8216;s major story-line is how romance comes into these three very different lives, and the lessons learned. The lesbian story is perhaps the most simplistic within a very simple film. This film will secure a solid place on the Queer Hallmark Network (when we get it). However, I can&#8217;t recommend it for any but the most inclusive, vast DVD collection. There are many more important, and deeper, fictional works that explore the complexity of queer lives. <em>Steam<\/em> could be a good Netflix rental, though, requiring only minor sofa-slug attention to achieve a feel-good buzz&#8230; and we deserve those kinds of films, too.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by,\u00a0<strong>Morgan Gwenwald<br \/>\n<\/strong>SUNY New Paltz<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam. Dir. Kyle Schickner. New Almaden, CA: Wolfe Video, 2009. DVD. 118 min. $19.95. The lesbian content in this film is neatly cut into the story of one of three women who share a sauna steam room. The three main characters, played by Ruby Dee, Alley Sheedy, and Kate Siegel, are a widowed senior citizen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,34,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}