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Universal acclaim- based on 9 Ratings

  • Starring: Joan Cusack, Kevin Kline
  • Summary: When a former student's Oscar acceptance speech calls his sexuality into question, drama teacher Howard Brackett (Kline) scrambles to assert his masculinity as he prepares for his wedding.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 18
  2. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. As a sharky, gay TV journalist investigating the story, Tom Selleck charms by playing in contrast to his own determinedly hetero persona.
  2. Deliver laughs and skewer a few stereotypes, thanks to extremely sly wit and a fine cast.
  3. Reviewed by: Maria Schneider
    80
    Screenwriter Paul Rudnick could be the closest thing 1990s Hollywood has to Preston Sturges, and in this era of Jim Carrey's slapstick seizures and Adam Sandler's deliberate anti-cleverness, it's a welcome thing. His In & Out is a smoothly paced, often wildly funny tale.
  4. 60
    It's not about sex -- it's about Barbra and Bette and the Village People: That's the lesson of this cheerful, mainstream comedy about tabloid TV, Hollywood sophistry and family values that finally gets discussion about gay people out of the bedroom and into the record store, where it belongs.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. In & Out is a great movie. The combination of Kevin Kline as a gay teacher who's never known he's gay until his wedding day and Tom Selleck as a gay reporter who proves it to him are what makes In & Out the masterpiece it is. This is a great movie. Don't miss it. Expand

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