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- 1997
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 1997
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
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.
Directed By: Frank Oz
Written By: Paul Rudnick
- 1997
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
- 1997
- PG-13
- Paramount Pictures
- 1 h 30 m
In & Out
70
2.2
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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.
Directed By: Frank Oz
Written By: Paul Rudnick
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
70
78% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
22% Mixed
4 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
70
78% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
22% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
As a sharky, gay TV journalist investigating the story, Tom Selleck charms by playing in contrast to his own determinedly hetero persona.
Hilarious ... It's dishy, but not swishy.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 72 User Ratings
2.2
18% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
11% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
71% Negative
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 72 User Ratings
2.2
18% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
11% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
71% Negative
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
In & Out is a great movie. The combination of Kevin Kline as a **** teacher who's never known he's **** until his wedding day and Tom Selleck as a **** reporter who proves it to him are what makes In & Out the masterpiece it is. This is a great movie. Don't miss it.
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Over-the-top **** fun! It's deep and powerful themes are hidden amongst great laughs and an almost coming-of-age/coming-out-of-the-closet story. Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck kiss for ten seconds--do you need more of a reason?
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My advice: Go; see; laugh yourself silly.
Kline, Debbie Reynolds (as his mom) and Tom Selleck are all wonderful. But it's the always amazing Cusack, playing the baffled Emily, who steals the film in a smooth transition from wide-eyed fiancée to possibly wronged woman, a role she essays with a perfect balance of wounded-ness and comedic aplomb.
Klein's the perfect actor to play Howard--a man so actory he probably signs his checks in that thin movie-poster type.
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.
Far too light and reliant on the Hollywood romantic clich_ to explore its topic intelligently, and - appropriately enough - leaves Kline looking like a Muppet.
To Come Out Of A Closet With A Laugh.
In & Out
Oz's light hearted concept that grows into heavy intense dramatic showdown is latter a wakeup call for the society but first a beautifully crafted comic delight. What seems at first as a mere joke and gives away its intention of not taking it seriously proves you wrong later in every frame of the screen. It is calculatively constructed with a fresh to-the-point structure that never takes its material for granted. The emotional aspect of the feature is left upon the concept to fill it in, it just communicates with you, the benign idea that boost off this film has its heart in the right place. On humor, Oz never lets you feel that the gag is forcibly imputed, each well timed punchline makes sense, even the pop culture references, you are practically wolfish for more and more.
Out of many sketches that follows the idea of the protagonist wrestling itself on his identity, the best one would be the sort of guide manual tape recording that teaches the protagonist to be a man. Now this part is one big sloppy kiss for both the actors and the writers, the writers hitting all the notes they can on mocking themselves in a spoof and satirical tone while the actor has to draw out as much as laugh he can with physical sequences where he doesn't have to share the screen.
I think it gives away the surf on performance record, Kilne as a juggling ball that is juggled by the narrow ideologies of the societies holds up for his role along with Selleck as his supporter. And supporting her is Cusack as the real victim of this entire case- or at least that is what she feels- is a pure delight while delivering her frustration over petty things. In & Out is aptly titled, it doesn't ponder over the usual semantics, it couldn't care less.
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A commercially successful mainstream out-of-the-closet comedy in the 90s mocking the stereotypical **** in the provincial midwestern America, directed by the voice-of-Yoda, Frank Oz (THE STEPFORD WIVIES 2004, 4/10), and stars a dapper Kevin Cline as Howard Brackett, a high school English teacher being outed on the 68th Oscar ceremony by his former student Cameron Drake (Dillon) in his BEST ACTOR acceptance speech, in addition to that, he is scheduled to marry his longtime fiancée Emily (Cusack) within three days.
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Production Company
Paramount Pictures,
Spelling Films
Release Date Sep 19, 1997
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline An out-and-out comedy.
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
• 4 Nominations
