6.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Shelter (2007)
Shelter (2007)
Overview
Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach suddenly finds himself drawn into a relationship he didn't expect.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Not Rated
LGBTQ: Positive
Christianity: Negative
Viewer Rating
6.9
Overview
Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach suddenly finds himself drawn into a relationship he didn't expect.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film's central narrative normalizes and celebrates a gay romance and the protagonist's journey of self-acceptance, aligning with progressive values of LGBTQ+ rights and individual identity.
The movie features a predominantly white cast with no explicit racial or gender swaps of traditional roles. Its narrative, however, is centrally focused on a gay relationship, presenting a strong and explicit DEI theme by challenging heteronormative storytelling. Due to the specific constraints of the evaluation categories, a precise narrative score could not be determined.
Secondary
Shelter is a romantic drama centered on the affirming love story between two men, Zach and Shaun. It sensitively portrays Zach's journey of self-acceptance and the challenges he navigates. The film ultimately validates their relationship and queer identity, concluding on a positive and hopeful note.
The film portrays conservative family values, implicitly linked to a Christian background, as a source of conflict and judgment towards the protagonist's homosexuality. The narrative frames this resistance as problematic, causing emotional distress, and champions acceptance and love over such narrow interpretations.
The film "Shelter, 2007" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. Its storyline focuses on a romantic relationship between two cisgender men, Zach and Shaun, with no elements related to transsexual identity or experiences present in the narrative.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Shelter" (2007) is an original story featuring characters created specifically for this movie. There is no indication of prior source material, historical figures, or previous adaptations from which characters could have been gender-swapped.
Shelter (2007) is an original film, not an adaptation of existing source material or a biopic. Therefore, its characters do not have a pre-established canonical or historical race to be swapped from.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.6
7.8
Critic Ratings
5.8
6.6
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