
Brokeback Mountain(2005)
In 1960s Wyoming, two men develop a strong emotional and sexual relationship that endures as a lifelong connection complicating their lives as they get married and start families of their own.


“Deny nothing.”
Two Navy fighter pilots find themselves in the midst of a forbidden relationship throwing their lives and careers into disarray.

Trent Ford
Daniel Lynch

Tammy Blanchard
Susan Sephensen

Morgan Spector
William Stephensen

Rob Mayes
Matthew Blackwood

William Lee Scott
Charlie Trumbo

Cotter Smith
Admiral Lynch

Michael Cumpsty
Admiral Stephensen

Michael Sirow
John Cokely

Mark Doherty
Skipper

Chris Chalk
Special Agent Jones
Burning Blue is a drama, romance, war film released in 2014 exploring themes of secret love, pilot, forbidden love, melancholy, u.s. navy, in the closet. Directed by D.M.W. Greer, it stars Trent Ford, Tammy Blanchard, Morgan Spector. Two Navy fighter pilots find themselves in the midst of a forbidden relationship throwing their lives and careers into disarray.
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