Tom Bailey

Edge of Seventeen -- Set in 1984 in Sandusky, Ohio, 'Edge of Seventeen' follows the coming-out of a naive 17-year-old teenager at exactly the moment when gender-bending pop stars like Boy George and Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics were flaunting androgynous images. As the youth, played with a heartbreaking sweetness by Chris Stafford, goes through his first rites of gay passage (after being callously used by the slightly older boy who brings him out, he tries to retreat to heterosexuality with his closest female friend) he emerges as a poignant gay everyman. Lea DeLaria is wonderful as his butch lesbian boss at the amusement park restaurant where he meets his first boyfriend.

Farley stars as Haru, an orphaned American who washes to shore in Japan and is mistaken for the Great White Ninja of legend. Raised among the finest Ninjas, Haru grows into a big, strong, slapstick disaster! An embarrassment to his clan, Haru has no hope of ever becoming a full Ninja. But when a beautiful blonde pleads for help, Haru is given one dangerously funny chance to prove himself.

An unlikely California boy is raised as a Japanese ninja - but his uncoordinated martial-arts style makes him a walking disaster. A bone-crunching slapstick comedy!

An unlikely California boy is raised as a Japanese ninja - but his uncoordinated martial-arts style makes him a walking disaster. A bone-crunching slapstick comedy!