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Brilliant and touching

Absolutely Brilliant!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

This movie is okay - more good than bad - but it has a couple of huge flaws.First, the attraction between Eli (Dan Bucatinsky) and Tom (Richard Ruccolo) is completely unbelievable. There's obviously no real chemistry between the two actors (since Ruccolo is straight), and they're not talented enough to conjure it up out of acting skill alone. Since that relationship is the heart of the movie, its total lack of believable passion is a very serious flaw.Better casting of either (especially Tom) or both roles could have solved it. (Ruccolo looks too much like Renée Zellweger to be sexy anyway, and his shaved chest is a big turn-off.)Second, when Tom, the self-proclaimed martini expert, makes one for Eli, he uses vodka. Now, I know there are idiots in the world who actually do make a drink with vodka which they call a martini, but that doesn't make it a martini. A martini is made with gin, not vodka. Using vodka to make a "martini" is like using Crisco to make "butter" cookies: you can call the result butter cookies, but that doesn't make them butter cookies.What this movie has going for it are a mostly entertaining and intelligent screenplay (only occasionally irritating and stupid - like the Gone with the Wind bit on the first date, and a few similar times when an only marginally entertaining joke is dragged out way too long; Tom blowing vermouth fumes into the "martini" is another clunker); a dynamite comic performance by snarky Adam Goldberg just being snarky Adam Goldberg; a solid performance by Sasha Alexander as the female glue that holds the three male flakes together; and a good enough performance by Bucatinsky to make Eli believable as a person if not as a lover - but even that is more Ruccolo's fault than his. Brief cameos by Doris Roberts and Lisa Kudrow are bonus treats.

I was moved to comment on this unusually poignant story. The main characters are so well and naturally drawn and so well played, I felt as if I knew them personally by the end of the movie. From the very beginning, the dialogue is clever, but there is more than cleverness - there is real talent in the writing and an authenticity I found haunting. There was also real plausibility within the comedy's plot; even the more unlikely twists and turns are believable. It's the writing of Dan Bucantinsky (not just his on-screen character) that made me want to see more of his work. This is a really good, heart-warming effort, with wonderful acting from each of the four main characters.

This movie gets an "excellent" rating from me because there is attention paid to real character development -- great screenplay. Equal attention has been paid to the characters themselves by actors who understand what they're talking about, and who convey that understanding believably -- the honesty is refreshing. One cannot know the extent to which the director was very detailed in getting the performances that she wanted or whether she fundamentally trusted her actors' intelligence to come through; with this cast and with this screenplay, I'd bet the latter. One so wishes for more movies that treat these themes as intelligently and as engagingly as this one does. One grows so weary of wading through movies with cardboard characters, actors, dialogue, and situations. This movie, though, was a pleasure. My thanks to one and all for having given it.

I really loved this movie! I just loved the way the characters Tom and Eli interacted together as well as the way their friends worked to set them up. I could really relate to the frustration and, at times anger, that Eli was going through trying to figure out the mixed messages that Tom was sending him. It was great seeing one of the characters who was having problems coming to terms with his own wish/need for lasting love grapple with his demons and finally allow himself to reach out and touch some real happiness. At the end of the movie I was in tears. This movie has it all: comedy, tragedy, and a heart-wrenching resolution. Every gay person and and their straight friend(s) should see this movie!