The eponymous sexually-confused Michael is played by James Franco in a case of so-obvious casting that what else is there to say about it? Once upon a time, as we learn after the opening scene of this true story, Michael was a semi-famous gay activist and successful magazine editor with a happy long term romance with Bennett (Zachary Quinto).Īfter moving from San Francisco they invite a third, a college kid named Tyler ( Teen Wolf's Charlie Carver) into their relationship because 'there's enough love to go around'. And then we're hurled back some years to meet the same but much different Michael, presumably in order to learn how the one became the other.
In the opening scene of writer/director Justin Kelly's provocative I AM MICHAEL, Michael Glatze is introduced as an 'ex-gay' pastor warning a depressed teenager away from his same-sex desires.
