“Love and Death on Long Island,” 26 February 1999 (1997), video. Sly, witty and in the end, serious story of unrequited love. A reclusive and isolated British author and widower, Giles De’ath (hence the title) played by John Hurt, inadvertently goes into the wrong cinema and sees a young American actor (Jason Prilestly) in a grade B- college sex romp. He is smitten by this young actor, comparing him to a pre-Raphealite painting of a young author (himself?). Journeying to America, he surreptitiously hunts him down on LI and initiates a friendship through the actor’s model-girlfriend. Well played by all, but especially by Hurt who is superb. An interesting, rather clever piece, that suffered more from the misrepresentation as “outrageously funny” on the video box as from any internal flaw. A serious comedy and worth watching.