The Greatest **** (2024, Isaac Nevrla, Sergio Acevedo, Isabela Jacobsen, Stephen Beers) – Classic Movie Review 13,464

Isaac Nevrla stars in the passionate, lovingly told 2024 LGBTQ+ drama film The Greatest exploring a 1960s New York love triangle between Jay, his wife, and Puerto Rican waiter Ricky (Sergio Acevedo).

Isaac Nevrla plays a conventional young married businessman who is forced to confront the consequences of his secret life when he meets and instantly falls in love with a Puerto Rican waiter (Sergio Acevedo).

Isaac Nevrla stars in the 2024 drama film The Greatest as a conventional young married businessman named Jay McKlien, who meets and instantly falls in love with a Puerto Rican waiter called Ricky (Sergio Acevedo), and is forced to confront the consequences of his secret, and choose between a life of straight conventionality and a life of gay authenticity.

Jay is a very nice young man, a model human being. He’s The Greatest. But despite all Jay’s upright sense of what’s right, nothing is going to work out quite like he hopes or expects, but then that’s life, apparently. Enjoy the moment, seize the day! It turns out, though, that he might have one last chance at another roll of the dice,

Writer/ director Ryan Sarno’s highly emotional, passionate gay love story, set in the dark old days of the early Sixties, is lovingly told with beautiful cinematography and exquisite period art direction, plus excellent performances from an ideal cast. The three principals are tremendous.

It is unafraid to get sentimental, but it knows exactly how to tug at the heartstrings and nudge the conscience. Ryan Sarno writes some excellent dialogue and many good scenes. A modern movie, with up-to-date attitudes, and also a nostalgia fest, with great Sixties clothes, artefacts and hair-dos, and tunes too, it’s a huggable type of movie that is very easy to fall for, maybe easy to love.

© Derek Winnert 2025 – Classic Movie Review 13,464

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