Synopsis
The hunky John is a closeted small-town cop who moves to L.A., where he is quickly seduced into the gay life of workouts and dusk-to-dawn parties. With actual circuit party footage and mounds of glistening and chiseled flesh, the pulsating Circuit is bound to get your juices flowing.
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Cast
- Jonathan Wade-DrahosJohn
- Andre KhabbaziHector
- Brian Lane GreenGill
- Kiersten WarrenNina
- Darryl StephensJulian
- William KattGino
- Nancy AllenLouise
- Bruce VilanchTheater Stage Manager
- Daniel KucanTad
- Jim J. BullockMark
Recommendations
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Variety
All-encompassing drama. - 60
New Times (L.A.)
When Circuit is on its game it's very telling and where it's at its best is detailing just how difficult it is for men so hedonistically self-involved to love one another. - 50
Chicago Reader
Shafer (himself a former Playgirl centerfold) never quite manages the incisive social critique his story seems to require. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
With its thumping soundtrack, absence of body hair and a camera that practically pants over every bulge, curve and crack of the male form, the film is really closer to porn than a serious critique of what's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture. - 40
The A.V. Club
As slick and attractive as its cast. But the movie gets away from Shafer. - 40
L.A. Weekly
Mostly, Shafer and co-writer Gregory Hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint, or a sense of humor, about a world in which the DJ has the power to unify, if only for a night, men of godlike beauty and the mortals who worship them. - 38
New York Daily News
The movie's strongest draw is its kitsch value -- along with a wisecracking Bruce Vilanch, the cast includes '80s TV refugees Jm J. Bullock ("Too Close for Comfort") and the Greatest American Hero himself, William Katt. - 25
Boston Globe
Like ''Showgirls'' and ''Glitter,'' the most entertaining moments here are unintentional.
