Except for the bad acting of the boyfriend Jeremy Neal. The story had good potential

The boyfriend of Andrew, Kyle, is so nelly and unbelievable as anyone's boyfriend that it wrecks the movie for you. The resulting love story between Andrew and Birch is great, you can really see the chemistry between the actors. Switch to Kyle swishing around the cabin and acting like a 16 year-old girl who was not asked to the prom when Andrew does not come home 4th of July night. I have to say this could have been a great love story, and without Kyle it is. You want it to go on longer after Kyle's character leaves in a snotty huff back to the city. I know there are gay men who tend to be, how do you say it, lady-like. And I have seen femmy men with butch guys, the chemistry just did not come through with the 2 characters as a couple.

Why does every "gay" movie seem so much the same? Gay life is enormously varied but you'd never know that from the movies about gay life, most of which rehash the same clichés of father-son angst and trite rites of"coming out." "Leather," whose title might lead viewers to think it's something it's not, is yet another film in that long, tiresome line. I suspect the filmmakers' hearts were in the right place. There are moments when you suspect something heartfelt and meaningful is going to happen in this rural tale of a New York City boy who falls in love with a boyhood friend who's morphed into an idealized woodsman - but the writing and acting and are so amateurish and the production work so slipshod the emotions of the film never gain traction.