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| PARTNERS(s) 2005 - 91 min. - Feature |
| Genre/Type -Comedy, Comedy of Errors Keywords -lawyer, client, deception, heterosexual, homosexual Themes -Cons and Scams Cast Jay Harrington Michael Ian Black Julie Bowen Brooke Langton Plot Synopsis The comedy Patner(s) concerns a lawyer named Dave who finally gets the chance to impress the senior partners in his law firm when he is given the most recent case of a very important client. After spending some time with the client, Dave realizes that the client wanted Dave because he mistakenly believes Dave is homosexual. Dave decides to play along, but must be careful to keep his heterosexual private life far away from his workplace. This turns out to be more difficult than one might imagine. - Perry Seibert |
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| Partner(s) is a silly and uneven (yet undeniably likeable) romantic comedy revolving around the hijinks that ensue when a lawyer named Dave Denali (Jay Harrington) is assigned a high-profile case just because he's gay - despite the fact that he is irredeemably straight. Far more problematic is Dave's attraction to his client's daughter (played Brooke Langton), which he obviously can't act on - though a rival lawyer at the firm (Julie Bowen) is convinced Dave is faking and would like nothing more than to reverse-out him. Though writer/director Dave Diamond employs an extremely predictable structure - complete with a melodramatic and sentimental conclusion - that goes exactly where one might imagine, Partner(s) generally remains an entertaining and enjoyable piece of work (something that can be attributed to the breezy tone and uniformly charismatic performances). Having said that, Diamond does tend to fall back on sitcom-style cliches more often than he should (something that's particularly true in terms of the jokes), and there's an entire subplot involving two of Dave's homophobic coworkers that's entirely unnecessary and should have been excised. Still, even with its flaws, Partner(s) is a hard film to entirely dislike (any movie with a premise that wacky can't be all bad). |
| Reviews David Nusair, reel film reviews |
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