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Jake and Kyle are two boys who grew up together in rural Arizona. They are best friends, and they begin to take their relationship to the next level when Jake's father moves him and his family away to California. Jake and Kyle can never forget their strong emotional bond, and Jake, overworked and unattached, goes back to his hometown for the first time in 15 years to see Kyle and renew their special friendship.


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Arizona Sky (2008)

Arizona Sky (2008)

92 min| Gay, Drama, Romance| 18 Nov 2008
5.5Rating: 5.5/10 from 565 usersMetascore: 5.5
Kyle picks his best friend Jake up for a short camping trip out on the prairie in rural Arizona. They discuss how they will miss each other when Jake’s family moves away to a big city. As best friends Kyle and Jake have even been sexually intimate with each other, but they assure each other that they must keep it to themselves. They sleep together in the bed of Kyle’s pickup for one last time. The scene shifts 15 years to Jake’s home in a big city in California. He is steeped in work as a filmmaker. He and his assistant Brian work on their present project, but Jake shows his fatigue. When his straight friend Steve comes by to socialize they talk about Jake’s not having a love life, and his feelings for Kyle. They decide to go back to Jake’s Arizona hometown. When Jake gets back to Arizona he meets up with Kyle indirectly by looking in the phone book, finding Kyle’s Aunt Elaine, and visiting her. She fills Jake in about the last 15 years: he has been taking care of his mother, working two and three jobs with his cousin Heath. Jake also finds out that Kyle has been helping indigent families like that of a woman, Cora, who stops by Kyle’s house. Jake and Kyle finally get together and they find that they feel the same about each other, but Kyle is still self-conscious and afraid of coming out as a gay man. He is encouraged to do so by his Aunt Elaine, who has always known the truth. Kyle’s cousin Heath is not so open-minded, and his discovering Kyle and Jake in bed together cause an emotional showdown between him and Kyle. In the end Jake decides to move in with Kyle where they once again can enjoy the Arizona sky together.

 
Arizona Sky (2008)Arizona Sky is a 2008 independent gay-themed romantic drama film, produced, written, and directed by Jeffery London.[1] It was filmed entirely on location in Lake Havasu City, Arizona and Bakersfield, California. In the spirit of Brokeback Mountain it tells how two childhood friends Jake and Kyle rekindle their relationship fifteen years later.

Jake and Kyle, two teenagers in rural Arizona, go camping out in the desert for one last time before Jake and his family move away to the big city. Their friendship has become sexually intimate, but they agree that they must keep it a secret. Kyle is worried that as he is not leaving as Jake is he would have to face the consequences if his sexual relationship with Jake would become known. They express their mutual love, and sadly face the impending separation. Kyle says tragically, “My best friend is moving away … forever!”

All this is shown to be a daydream of Jake fifteen years in the future. He is now a busy film producer in California working on a science fiction film project in his living room with his assistant Brian. Brian rouses Jake out of his reverie, and they discuss their respective main goals in life before they get down to business. Due to the growing stress of his work Jake begins to have anxiety attacks: he has one in front of Brian, who urges him to take a vacation.
Arizona Sky (2008)
Jake has come to realize that he is gay, but his accepted understanding of life is that it is 10% show and 90% business. He has virtually no private life. His “straight” friend Steve reinforces Brian’s suggestion that Jake take a “personal journey” away from it all, and after another anxiety attack Jake decides to go back to his hometown in Arizona to see if he can find himself. At the last minute he asks Steve to come along, and he does.

When Jake gets back to Arizona he tries to find out about Kyle through Kyle’s Aunt Elaine, whose name and address he finds in the local telephone directory. In a warm visit with Elaine he finds out that Kyle still lives there, just a few blocks away from his aunt, whom he visits several times a week. In a way she has taken the place of Kyle’s deceased mother in his life. He holds down three jobs: the morning cook at the diner, ranch hand, and a partner with his cousin Heath in fixing cars and tractors.

Arizona Sky (2008)

Jake and Kyle have a pleasant reunion in Kyle’s living room, and in the days that follow they discover that they still love each other. In a scene in Jake and Steve’s motel room Steve tells Jake about a secret he discovered about his grandfather when he was a boy riding his bicycle around town: his grandfather gave food to an indigent family. Steve concludes that doing things like that may be what life is all about. Later Jake discovers that Kyle like Steve’s grandfather is also helpful to a poor woman, Cora, and her family. She tells Jake that she wouldn’t know what she would do if it weren’t for Kyle’s help. Jake sees that Kyle understands what life is all about, and in his desire to share in it, he gives the woman money.

Kyle, though, is unsure and troubled about his feelings for Jake until Aunt Elaine urges him to be himself and find happiness in life. His cousin Heath, who is not as open-minded as Aunt Elaine, has a problem with it, and a confrontation between him and Kyle ensues when Heath discovers Kyle and Jake in bed together one morning. Kyle stands his ground in admitting to Heath that being gay is part of who he is and something he will not deny any longer.

Jake and Kyle decide to move in together with Jake concluding that he can make films just as easily in rural Arizona as in urban California. The last scene of the film shows Jake and Kyle once again in Kyle’s pickup looking up at the Arizona sky.