The New York Blade on Monday spotlighted actress Judith Light’s role in Save Me, a motion picture starring Chad Allen that is now showing in limited U.S. release.

Gay-media obsessions with heterosexual actors bore me — I have boycotted The Advocate for a decade for this reason. However, writer Dustin Fitzharris does eventually offer useful observations about the movie:

“Save Me,” directed by Robert Cary, follows Mark (openly gay actor Chad Allen), a sex and drug-addicted young, gay man who overdoses and finds himself at the mercy of his disapproving family. Their solution to his problems is Genesis House. At first, Mark resists the efforts of Gayle [Judith Light] and her loving husband (Stephen Lang), but he soon finds solace and brotherhood with the other residents, including Scott (Robert Grant of “Queer as Folk” fame), who is battling demons of his own. Soon, Mark and Scott find their bond is more than friendship, and they have to confront the teachings they’ve begun to accept. Their bond is something Gayle, whose own 17-year-old gay son died of an overdose, can’t bear to witness.

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