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| Adam & Steve 2005 - USA - 100 min. - Feature , Color Director - Craig Chester |
| Genre / Type - Comedy, Gay & Lesbian Films, Romantic Comedy Flags - Adult Humor, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Adult Situations, Drug Content, Nudity Keywords - addict, bathhouse, committed-relationship, gym, homosexual, past, relationship, roommate, sexual-attraction, one-night-stand, cocaine Themes - Romantic Misunderstandings, Thirtysomething Life, Nothing Goes Right, Playing the Field Tones - Sexual, Light, Raunchy, Goofy, Wry, Madcap Produced by - Funny Boy Films Release - Mar 31, 2006 (USA - Limited) Released by - TLA Releasing DVD Street Date - Aug 8, 2006 Studio - Tla Cast Craig Chester -- Adam Malcolm Gets -- Steve Parker Posey -- Rhonda Chris Kattan -- Michael Paul Sand -- Norm Melinda Dillon -- Dottie Julie Hagerty -- Ruth Sally Kirkland -- Mary Steve Geary -- Andy Jack Guzman -- Security Guard Noah Segan -- Twink Augi Amarino -- Drunk Patron Maxine Prescott -- Elderly Lady Brandon Miller -- Survivalist in Park La Na Shi -- Ling Ling |
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| Plot Synopsis A forgotten one-night-stand from the 1980s sets the stage for romance fifteen years removed in director Craig Chester's urban romantic comedy starring Parker Posey, Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, and Chris Kattan. Despite the fact that neither Adam (Chester) nor Steve (Gets) recall the one-night-stand they shared fifteen years ago, the compatible pair form a fast bond when they meet again far removed from the intoxicating effects of the party scene. When the loving couple realize that their pasts have previously intersected, it's up to their best friends Rhonda (Parker) and Michael (Kattan) to help their pals accept their past and use the foundation of their current relationship to forge ahead into a fulfilling future of kindness and commitment. - Jason Buchanan, AMG Reviews Joe Brown, San Francisco Chronicle |
| Writer-director Craig Chester ("Swoon") also stars in this lightweight but big-hearted gay romantic comedy. After meeting cute at New York's Danceateria nightclub in 1987 -- one is a Goth, the other a glitter-encrusted Dazzle Dancer in a Fischerspoonerish dance routine -- Adam (Chester) and Steve (Malcolm Gets) meet cute again 15 years later but don't recognize each other from their ill-starred one-night stand (they've both quit drugs and their hair isn't nearly as big). Jewish Adam now overfeeds his dog and leads bird-watching tours in Central Park; goyish Steve is a shrink and a clean freak. After a comically cringeworthy pas de deux of defenses, the adorably neurotic pair hesitantly negotiate the plentiful humiliations of a fledgling post-Sept. 11 relationship with the somewhat reluctant help of their straight best friends (Parker Posey and Chris Kattan, who contain their usual scenery-chomping instincts). Paraphrasing Adam and Steve themselves, the endearingly deadpan Chester, with his handsome sad-sack face, is the kooky Julia Roberts to Gets' Meg Ryan (blond heartthrob Gets makes a fine straight man, to coin a phrase). Posey, in particular, glows as former fat girl Rhonda, a flailing stand-up comic who can't seem to let go of her now incongruous "I'm so fat" material. Chester called in favors from his actor buddies, resulting in cameos by Sally Kirkland, Paul Sand, Julie Hagerty and other familiar faces, and even convinced Yoko Ono to release a John Lennon song for the sneakily tear-tugging ending (the score is by former San Franciscan Roddy Bottom of Imperial Teen). "Adam & Steve" plays as urban farce, but thanks to first-time director Chester's light touch and affectionally observant eye and ear, it's also a genuinely affecting love story with something to say about such contemporary obstacles to affection as weird families, hot exes, addictions, anonymous hookups, homophobia, irony, gay two-stepping -- and the difficulty of connecting no matter what gender you go for. Advisory: Contains crude humor, brief nudity. E! On Line |
| Are you all cried out from Brokeback Mountain? Are you looking for a gay romance where no one has to die tragically or suffer a loveless life alone? Then this fluffy indie should hit the spot. Beginning in the late 1980s, Adam (Craig Chester) and Steve (Malcolm Gets) suffer through an unintentionally scatological one-night stand, part ways and then meet up 15 years later. With the ugly sex accident erased from their memories, the men fall in love and struggle to make the relationship work as their hetero roommates Parker Posey and Chris Kattan follow suit. The gags veer in tone from wacky slapstick to gross-out, John Waters territory to typically earnest gay rom-com clich�s, but they do so in a way that never gives in to self-importance or pretension. And Posey's turn in a Shallow Hal-ish fat suit is so surreal that purchasing a ticket for her alone wouldn't be out of the question. |
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