The movie’s title refers to the term for a frozen entrée in pristine condition, i.e. “never been thawed”. It features a cast of non-professional actors and first time actors who are lovingly called “the dorks” in the film’s promotional website. And dorks they truly are.

In Never Been Thawed, director and star Sean Anders, along with his partners-in-crime co-writers (real life Phoenix firefighter Chuck LeVinus and real life Reno store owner John Morris) manage to lampoon not just gays, but also Jesus-freak fundamentalists, firefighters, musicians  and most significantly, the phenomena of cults and subcultures. One might say the underlying “black comedy” theme of NBT is how subcultures can turn each of us into “fans, followers or serious dorks”.

To this end, NBT’s filmmakers concoct a host of weird, fictional social clubs, such as the film’s central group of characters: a group that collects frozen TV dinners.

Sean Anders plays NBT’s lead character Shawn Anderson - the leader of the “Mesa Frozen Entrée Enthusiasts' Club”, a small society of fanatical collectors who’s labor of love is to present the world's first “Frozen Entrée Enthusiasts' Convention”.  Shawn can boast of fourteen full-sized freezers holding over 900 frozen entrees in his small one bedroom apartment, where he proudly shows off his prize collection of decades-old, never-before-thawed TV dinners.

NBT seems to contain messages that to make money by exploiting righteous hypocrites is ok, and that to take life too seriously is to become a sucker.  For example, leading man Shawn, in addition to his frozen food hobby, also fronts “The Christers”, a former punk band. In one of the movie's more Spinal Tap-type take-offs, Shawn rewrites the group's sacrilegious and obscene lyrics to cash in on the Christian-rock craze. As a punk band, their songs were mostly about feces and/or sex with underage girls.  Reworked, they turn into songs of praise.

The Christers dream is to hit the “Christian big time” and they actually end up landing a deal with “Holy Trinity Records”.  As bandleader Shawn Anderson sardonically says, “I never was certain there was a God until I saw all those Christian kids lining up to buy our shit. That was all the proof I needed.”

First time actor Scott Isham, (who in real life works in Arizona politics), plays “ex-gay” gay character Scott Baxter. As his blurb on the wacky Never Been Thawed cast webpage describes the film’s character “Scott is a talented yet conflicted man.  A member of “Ex-Gay Ministries”, Scott has put his homosexual days behind him.  "I've always been big and athletic so being straight is just the next logical step in that more masculine progression.  I considered rationing but since nobody makes a 'quit-being-gay patch,' I knew I'd have to go cold turkey.  I still have a lot of work to do.  I've been following the steps; eating lots of steak, watching sports, and buying my clothes at Wal-Mart."

As with all the nutty characters’ personality traits in this irreverent, sometimes funny movie, Scott’s gayness is woven into the inanity of the film’s unfolding story: He is a fireman at the local Fire Department where, in addition to his duties as a firefighter, he produces and directs training videos for his and other departments.

The closeted, but stereotypical “theater-queen” gay Scott produced "How to Be a Hero," the first video ever made to help firefighters deal emotionally with their new 'Hero' status brought on by the tragic events of 9-11. This production won Scott the coveted “Golden Hose Award” for excellence in video production.