SummaryA few years ago, Sam (Jake Borelli) and Harry (Niko Terho) were high school enemies, but after a being forced to spend the night together, they find themselves falling for each other in this romantic comedy TV film written by Josh Senter and Peter Paige.
SummaryA few years ago, Sam (Jake Borelli) and Harry (Niko Terho) were high school enemies, but after a being forced to spend the night together, they find themselves falling for each other in this romantic comedy TV film written by Josh Senter and Peter Paige.
Harry is a classic romcom for both better and worse. ... But to quibble with Harry, when it sticks at least the first of its two landings and left even this hardhearted bastard misty-eyed, feels like the equivalent of saying that if love isn’t perfect, it isn’t worth it. It is worth it.
Thankfully, The Thing About Harry gets more right than it gets wrong and will give romantics the weekend fodder they need to laugh, cry, and root for Sam and Harry on the road to love. And if your bully from high school suddenly sends you a friend request, he or she is probably watching the same movie too.
Here's the thing. This is a silly made-for-tv rom-com. If you don't like the genre, this movie might not do it for you. It has implausible and contrived plot twists, and the character's motivations are hard to fathom beyond being necessary to move the plot along. But if you do like rom-coms and you have been waiting your whole life for a male-male one on television, you will be delighted. Sam and Harry are so obviously in love from their re-meetcute that you have to root for them even as you watch them make one silly decision after the other that keeps them apart. The characters are broad, the situations are contrived, the set pieces are predictable, but you won't care. I cried, laughed, and cheered for them. Also, this movie owes a lot to that really famous movie rom-com with "Harry" in the title. It's not the masterpiece that film is, and sometime it suffers from comparison. But let's be generous and think of it as an homage.
I really wanted to love this movie. As a **** man I cling to any quality lgbtq films especially when they are mainstream. I was blessed with Love, Simon and since that was a minor hit I was expecting a lot more movies to come out. So this option from freeform is appreciated and it's cute but it's very by the numbers and the leads don't have the best chemistry. That being said it's about a guy named Sam who runs into Harry sporadically over the years. They have a little bit of a love connection and eventually, well you know. It's all fairly formulaic but I hope it's successful and opens the door to better films.
3/5