Metacritic Film

Wirey Spindell

Starring Eric Schaeffer, Eric Mabius, Devon Matthews, Zane Adlum, Callie Thorne, Samantha Buck, Jennifer Wiltsie, and Peggy Gormley

MPAA RATING: Not rated

WinStar Cinema
Comedy
101 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters January 21, 2000

A look back at the life of a 36 year-old bisexual man (Schaeffer) who is going straight and is nervous about his upcoming wedding in nine days.

WRITTEN BY
Eric Schaeffer

DIRECTED BY
Eric Schaeffer

Overall Metascore

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

15 / 100

Critic Reviews

50 Los Angeles Times
May be too heady for some tastes but can stir you deeply, if you're open to it.
30 TV Guide
This sour coming of age story is a testament to his self-centeredness and dogged perseverance.
30 LA Weekly Nicole Campos
The strangeness is sometimes amusing, often showy, and laid on so thick that it's difficult to make the connection.
20 Village Voice
Brimming with fatuous "clever" dialogue and gorgeous women swooning over Schaeffer-played boors, the like-sounding titles denoted a vain, smarmy Woody Allen acolyte drowning in his own reflection.
10 The New York Times A. O. Scott
To say that this movie is true to life is only to say that it's banal, boring and confusing.
0 New York Post
The latest vanity production by writer-director-star Eric Schaeffer, who still seems to think he's another Woody Allen -- despite a growing body of work that proves otherwise.

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