carlton17 This was so very interesting, so touching, emotional and heartbreaking too. Full of moments you could help but feel sympathy towards Liam. Owen was naive and inexperienced but you could tell he had grown in some way through this experience from a young lad to a man. It was truly a must see watch and all the cast, location setting where spot on.

Prismark10 Unconditional concerns two 17 year old twins Owen (Harry McEntire) and his more aggressive sister Kristen (Madeleine Clark) who look after their disabled mother.Kristen wants some cash and applies for a loan, she is visited by a local loan adviser, Liam (Christian Cooke) who is charismatic and Kristen takes a shine to him.However Liam is interested in Owen, for a laugh he gets Owen to dress up like a woman and takes him out for the night wining and dining him. This relationship continues but it is clear Liam is conflicted with his own sexual preferences, he does not feel attracted to Owen when he is not dressed as a woman. For Owen, he is finding out about himself and his own sexuality but Liam is volatile and wants unconditional love which threatens to psychologically suffocate Owen.This is a nice little movie, filmed in the north east and with a raw feel to it. You feel for Owen when he is abandoned at the beach by Liam. An intense performance from both the leads but it works more as a small scale character study rather than a feature film.

chris-read1 I really enjoyed this film, it has its limitations as the film overall doesn't seem to come together as a whole rather its more a series of vignettes,but wow some of these scenes are very powerful and tense.The character liam in his early 20's played by Christian Cooke is a deeply troubled gay man who cant express these feelings for another man in a conventional gay relationship. So much so that his feelings and sexual attraction that he has for the 17 year old Owen ( the excellent Harry McEntire ) has to proceed on the basis of Owen dressing as and acting female and becoming Liam's ideal girlfriend.Owen a naive 17 year old and twin looking after his ill mother with his sister who also likes Liam is coming to terms with his own sexuality, and liam exploits this to the limit via his emotional blackmail and offering Owen a taste of the good life, denied to him in his hum drum life on a council sink estate in the North East of England.Christian Cooke plays Liam with an ever present and barely concealed rage against family, friends and strangers alike. ( I thought whilst watching Christian Cooke in this role what a wonderful Heathcliff he would make in Wuthering Heights when he's a little older ) He delights in taking out his rage and blackmail on Owen trying to bend him to his ideal, and Owen coming to terms with his new passion for liam returns time and again for more humiliation and mental cruelty,Overall a film of great intensity with superb performances from the two leads its parts are greater than its whole though.

bjk1961 "Unconditional Love", aka "Unconditional", presents the intense story of a severely repressed homosexual attempting to create his fantasy woman from an inexperienced, virgin, teenage boy. Seventeen year old Owen meets the slightly older Liam and becomes dazzled by his attention, fast car, money, and large personality. After an evening drinking and fearful of being rejected by his new friend, Owen allows Liam to dress and make him up as a woman. Liam then convinces Owen to go out on the town as the newly created "Kristen".Afterwards, Owen attempts to distance himself from Liam, but Liam's threat to disappear for good and his own immaturity cause Owen to reconsider. From this point forward, Liam's fantasy becomes the driving force in their relationship. As the fantasy persists, it grows and becomes fragile. It threatens to crush both of them as Liam spirals closer and closer to homicidal rage because the fantasy fails to transcend to reality, and as Owen struggles to come to terms with burgeoning sexuality and personality before he loses everything.I have not been so engaged by a psycho-drama in a very long time. I am amazed at the quality of this gay-themed film as most suffer from the dreaded "writer as director" or a tiny budget that mandates starving artists. This film exceeded every expectation I had. Every actor hit every mark, every scene moved the action forward, and the whole exceeded the sum of its parts. Harry McEntire as "Owen" and Christian Cooke as "Liam" gave performances way beyond their years and carried the film beautifully. I can't wait to see them in the future. Definitely worth going out of your way to see this film.