Although he has only two credits on IMDB, Thai actor Sadanont Durongkaweroj (aka Nont) rates his own English-language wikipedia page: He's 21 years old, a student at Bangkok University, with a resume containing six music videos, four supporting or guest roles on Thai tv, and two movies. Dew (2019), about two boys in love, snagged him four best actor awards.
Nont's instagram posts include several romantic photos with another boy, but it may just be his costar in the movie.
Here he shows off his physique.
Netflix has a surprising number of movies about teenage boys in love, but not Dew, so I watched Nont's other movie, The Whole Truth (2021).
A driven career woman, who has just been promoted to head of international sales, is upset because she has to work late, and can't take her kids out to dinner at a nice restaurant:
1. The popular it-girl Pim, who is running for head cheerleader against the school's resident Mean Girl.
2. Shy, sensitive, artistic Putt (Nattapat "Mac" Nimjirawat), who wears a leg brace. I thought Putt had a boyfriend, Fame (Nont), but the guy turns out to be a creep who spies on his sister. And is blackmailing him with a video -- of what? Maybe Putt having sex with a guy? Probably not: this is a country where BL movies win awards.
Later that night, a creepy old guy comes to the door and announces that he's their Grandfather. Mom has been in an accident, and is in a coma. The kids didn't even know that they had grandparents -- Mom never mentioned them -- but they agree to stay with Creepy Grandpa and even Creepier Grandma.
Creepy Grandparents turn out to be strict disciplinarians with bizarre rules and hatred of the kids' pet cat. Plus there's a hole in the wall that the Grandparents can't see.
The head cheerleader and blackmail plotlines continue (darn, not gay-related), with the added tension of creepy grandparents who might not be their grandparents at all, and the hole that shows disturbing, gross scenes like a girl vomiting blood onto a baby.
Meanwhile Grandpa starts investigating the accident. Who was driving the car that rammed into Mom? Chaiyut (Steven Fuhrer, left), son of the the local real estate tycoon. He vows to get revenge.
Then Mom wakes up, hears that the kids are staying with the creepy grandparents, and goes beserk. "I have to get them out of that house!"
As you can tell, this movie has constant plot twists that keep you surprised up to the last WTF moment.
I was disappointed that Nant was playing the blackmailer rather than Putt, and that Putt was not identified as gay. But at least he's shy, sensitive, and artistic, displays no heterosexual interest, and the Big Bad (rather, one of the Big Bads) tries to kill him because he is "not normal...a freak." That's a good enough gay subtext.
Plus Mac Nattapat has starred in his own gay teen romance tv series, He's Coming to Me. (Not as one of the leads).
Gay teen romances must be as common as leaf-wrapped sticky rice over there.
My grade: B+
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