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