Metacritic Film

Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, The

Starring David Drake

MPAA RATING: Not rated

FilmNext
Drama
81 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters July 14, 2000

In nine inter-connected scenes, this film charts a course through the depths and shallows of the urban gay male experience while exposing the sexual, spiritual and political yearnings at the heart of gay America.

WRITTEN BY
David Drake (also play)

DIRECTED BY
Tim Kirkman

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

67 / 100

Critic Reviews

80 The New York Times Lawrence Van Gelder
Mr. Drake can be rivetingly angry, intense, frenetic, frank and touching.
70 Village Voice Jessica Winter
Once Drake reaches the candlelight vigil that acts as his penultimate set piece, he sustains an impossible balance between mordant wit and articulate bewilderment.
70 LA Weekly Chuck Wilson
Drake draws us in, digging deep to track the occasionally divine, always ridiculous journey that is big-city gay life.
63 New York Post Hannah Brown
There's enough wit, intelligence and theatrical intensity at work in Larry Kramer to overcome an occasional tendency toward politically correct smugness.
63 New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
On film, and eight years after they were written, his urgent re-creations of an awkward first date, or a Village People obsession, feel both overly familiar and almost embarrassingly earnest.
60 TV Guide Ken Fox
It exudes a slightly stale air that does nothing to dispel gay stereotypes.

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