The Dying Gaul, the movie, not the statue, has Robert (Peter Sarsgaard) a struggling young writer finally having a chance to sell his somewhat autobiographical script. The complication is that the producer wants to replace the character of his dying male lover with a woman to make it more sellable. Further complicating things is Jeffrey (Campbell Scott), the bi-sexual producer, starting an affair with Robert. Then of course, Jeffrey’s wife, a former screen writer, becomes fascinated with Robert and starts stalking him anonymously in online chat rooms, eventually finding out more than she really wanted to know.
What’s Up Doc?
Ryan O’Neal was Dr. Howard Bannister in the 1970’s film What’s Up Doc? trying to win a grant to study his musical igneous rocks and caught up in a whirlwhind in the form of Barbra Streisand who’s Judy Maxwell turns his life upside down. The scene where he’s in his boxers and bowtie is an all time favorite of mine. And it’s still a pretty funny movie.
Eating Out: All You Can Eat
The third installment of the “Eating Out” series, All You Can Eat, continues with the confusion of who’s who with straight guys pretending to be gay for various reasons. Casey (Daniel Skelton) comes to town and falls for Zack (Chris Salvatore). When Casey is too shy to approach Zack, inveterate fag hag Tiffany (Rebekah Kochan) convinces him to meet Zack online and further urges using pictures of her ex-boyfriend and stripper Ryan (Michael E.R. Walker) in a fake profile to get to know Zack. Then before Casey can make his move, Ryan comes back to town and the confusion begins. Amusing with lots of skin.
Redwoods
Everett (Brendan Bradley) is in a lackluster relationship with Miles (Tad Coughenour) and seems to be sticking around because of their son and possibly the fact that their small town only has about a dozen people and pickings may be a bit slim. Everett is left at home when Miles takes their son to visit the grandparents. That’s when Chase (Matthew Montgomery), a writer looking for a place to revitalize himself, gets lost and stops to ask Everett directions. Everett appoints himself Chase’s tour guide and the two start to fall for one another. Even Everett’s parents and brother Shane (Simon Burzynski) start to fall for Chase, but will Everett leave his comfortable if boring life? Good movie, but not wild about the way it ended. Redwoods.
