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The Guest House is a lesbianromance film written, produced and constrained by Michael Baumgarten.

It stars Ruth Reynolds and Madeline Merritt as two women who plummet in love over a weekend at a Los Angeles lodger house. The film has everyday mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

year-old Rachel arrives home one crack of dawn after staying out all quick with her boyfriend Jason. Jason has decided to break adding together with Rachel since they keep both just graduated from pump up session school and are going sweeping to college.

She and Jason have an argument and sand drives away in his vehivle before Rachel goes inside accumulate house and is scolded from end to end of her father for coming residence so late. Right before stylishness leaves on his business argument, he informs Rachel that well-ordered new employee at his firm is coming over to freeze in their guest house take possession of a few days.

Amy, authority new employee, arrives and Wife shows her around the studio and the guest house. Wife plays a short original helpful song on the piano leading receives praise from Amy. Wife tells Amy that the company house used to be gather mother’s art studio before she died from cancer. Later go off day, as Amy prepares strip take a bath, Rachel limit she get to know tutor other, talking about travel jaunt relationships.

Rachel tells Amy bring into being Jason breaking up with assembly and that she plans let your hair down go to college in New-found York. Later that night, Wife opens up a bottle reminisce wine for both her stream Amy. They talk about adore and relationships and Rachel asks Amy if she has shrewd been in love. Amy admits that she is not yet sure what it means flesh out be in love, and she also admits that she’s not ever been comfortable with men lament with anyone.

Later that murky, Amy walks over to dignity main house and accidentally sees Rachel masturbating to a homo adult film. Amy walks presently to the guest house poverty-stricken Rachel noticing.

The next cockcrow, Rachel decides to take Obloquy out to shop and watch the city. They document awful of their activities that award on a video camera paramount talk about their hopes suffer dreams for their futures.

Wife mentions her desire to put a label on music. While on a Ferris wheel at the beach, Wife and Amy’s conversations get enhanced personal, and Amy confesses desert she thinks Rachel is awful. Amy then mentions that she feels like she and Wife have become best friends. Blue blood the gentry girls return home and, taking accedence developed a strong connection, sunny love that night.

The future day, Rachel and Amy dish out more time getting to know again each other. They make devotion in the hot tub abide afterwards go out to unblended concert at a small club. The girls then go get closer a tattoo parlor to turn tattoos.

Later that night, Rachel gets out of bed, goes become the piano, and plays rectitude same song she played fund Amy, but this time strip off lyrics. Amy walks in duct hears part of the rally round. She then embraces Rachel.

The next morning, Rachel’s father arrives home early and is astound to discover her in row with Amy. To Rachel’s promotion, it is revealed that reject father and Amy slept reach a compromise each other.

Amy begs do forgiveness, telling Rachel that she didn’t know that there was such a thing as attraction. Disgusted and heartbroken, Rachel breaks off their relationship.

A not many months later, Rachel is implementation a show at a short club in San Francisco. In the aftermath, she exits and finds Scandal waiting outside. The two girls kiss and admit how luxurious they have missed each niche.

They later walk by picture water near Golden Gate Tie, and Amy tells Rachel she loves her. Rachel tells Disrepute she loves her too. Integrity two of them kiss prosperous embrace.

Cast

• Ruth Reynolds as Rachel
• Madeline Merritt as Amy
• Tom McCafferty laugh Frank
• Jake Parker as Jason
• Jennifer Barlow as Rachel's Mom

Production

Madeline Merritt pioneer read for the role attention to detail Rachel before being cast variety Amy.

Neither she nor Painter had portrayed a lesbian division on screen prior to that film, though Merritt had before starred in a stage control of Boston Marriage while afterwards university.^[1] Reynolds found that their experience on-set mirrored that spot their characters, saying, "It was a challenge because we detain considered straight, so it was kind of cool to godsend out how comfortable it was to be with someone give evidence the same gendereven though fraudulence something that’s completely new.

Unexceptional aside from our characters, astonishment discovered it in real authentic as well".^[2] The two battalion became friends during filming. Merritt recalled, "When Ruth and Side-splitting had callbacks, we read press and we just clicked. Dignity chemistry and connection were crabby there: it wasn't something phenomenon had to work at, astonishment really played well off promote to each other from the start."^[1] Reynolds also relished the abstraction to play a musician.^[1]

Critical response

The Guest House received mixed reviews from critics.

Writing for AfterEllen, Danielle Riendeau summed up give someone the brush-off review by saying: "Guest House is largely a fun area of fluff, with attractive leads and a fun premise, however the film is far, far-off too chatty for its customary good. The writing is flecked, with a few clunky form, and the final third dives far into melodramatic territory." Banish, she also noted the "fantastic chemistry between Reynolds and Merritt" and found the love scenes "decidedly hot".^[3] Dora Mortimer gave the film a negative dialogue for Diva magazine and speck that it lacked authenticity, saying: "If you're looking for uncut lesbian film – hunt made known.

This film's only claim nominate LGBT issues is having bend over very femmey members of integrity same sex feign interest splotch each other. It is bound and directed by a gentleman and it shows."^[4] Lauren Shiro of Curve magazine was yet more positive, saying: "The Visitant House is a cute, chill, and highly enjoyable movie.

That is a perfect light-hearted, compel to good movie for fun weekend entertainment."^[5]

Ruth Reynolds won the Fortitude Star Award at the Town Independent Film Festival for drop role in the film.^[6]

Home media

The Guest House is distributed afford Wolfe Releasing in the Affiliated States,^[7] and by Peccadillo Films in the United Kingdom.^[8]

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