Sparkle is not at its heart a gay film, but if you know the work of Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger (Lawless Heart, Boyfriends), or if you like watching a good film with a queer sensibility, then you’ll love it. 22-year-old Liverpudlian Sam (Shaun Evans, who played a gay character in Teachers) comes down to London with his cabaret-singing dotty mother to change his life for the better. Serving drinks at a party, he hooks up with Sheila, a powerful PR boss in a pair of high-heeled boots (played by the fabulous Stockard Channing, need we say more). But when he also begins an affair with a younger woman, life begins to get just a little complicated. Sparkle is a warm, funny film with great performances throughout (look out for Antony Head as a sardonic stately British homo and Bob Hoskins as a lovable loner). Bring your hanky...  A Vertigo Films release of an Isle of Man Film, Baker Street, U.K. Film Council presentation, in association with North West Vision and BBC Films, of a Magic Light Pictures production. (International sales: Beyond Films, Sydney.) Produced by Martin Pope, Michael Rose. Executive producers, Steve Christian, Keith Evans, Steve Jenkins, Christopher Moll, Paul Trijbits. Directed, written by Neil Hunter, Tom Hunsinger. The official Trailer for the new British Romantic Comedy.