Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.This British-Irish drama took us off guard last fall when it won us over with its mix of character drama, eroticism and obsession.
Rialto tells the story of Colm (Tom Vaughn-Lawlor), a blue-collar dock worker dealing with the death of his father. As he struggles with the pressures of work, a needy mother, a pair of distant teenage kids and a passionless marriage, he happens on Jay (Tom Glynn-Carney) a teen hustler who propositions–then threatens to blackmail–him in a public bathroom.
What begins as an odd slave/master relationship takes on an emotional life of its ow, as Colm finds himself more comfortable and.