- Studio: Fine Line Features
- Release Date: May 16, 1997
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- Starring: Jason Alexander, John Benjamin Hickey, John Glover, Justin Kirk, Randy Becker, Stephen Bogardus, Stephen Spinella
- Summary: This film adaptation of Terrence McNally's Tony Award winning play focuses on eight gay men as they spend three summer holiday weekends together at a rural country house. What transpires is a tender, humorous and poignant story about love, valour and compassion among friends. (New Line Cinema)
- Director: Joe Mantello
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance
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Positive: 11 out of 20
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Mixed: 7 out of 20
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Negative: 2 out of 20
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90The best thing the filmmakers did was to pull a cast out of the stage productions. Importantly, the actors convey a sense of history and comfort with each other.
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80Yet the pride and sympathy McNally brings to his characters reminds us how far gay film has progressed from the long, self-lacerating whine of "The Boys in the Band".
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60It's all about as white and bourgeois as you can get, but the film does take a few risks, and some actually pay off.
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Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning work has been called "one of the major plays of our time." Moviegoers who aren't stage-struck may wonder, "What's the fuss?"
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cimmerianU.10This film is funny, sexy, and thought provoking.
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