Oh God! Such an awful film and unnecessarily stretched for no reason with all kinds of side stories for whatever reason. Set against the time of Prop 8, this film featuring Matthew Montgomery, who has done plenty of gay movies, just looks awful showing the nerdy side by quivering lips and making faces, which according to me is really insulting.
Paul runs an advertising company. Seeing two of his lesbian friends getting married, he also wants to get married. Given that Prop 8 biting is gonna happen soon and gays may no longer be able to get married (this is 2008), he wants to do this, while he has an option, except he has no boyfriend. He sees Jim at the friends wedding and they both like each other. On the side, one of the biggest client that Paul has is a huge supporter of anti LGBT right and pro conservative people. And somehow the money from the client is blinding him from doing the right thing. Also his mom has run away from home, which we only later find out why, and Paul is trying to reconcile with his estranged family. Of course, everything
There was so much wrong with this film, right from his character development to everything else going on. First of all, there was absolutely no need to make the lead actor show as whatever the makers were trying to. It was simply annoying and wasn't really adding anything. Also why the rush to get married? I mean him and Jim go barely on two dates and are both ready to get married. For what? Given the history of Paul on how he was almost going against the gay rights for his client, that's not an easy thing to just forgive. Way too much time was spent on his mother in a bar talking to a drag queen and playing slots and watching his mother being deserted was just so eye rolling. I mean, who was thinking that this all could remotely be funny!! Just about nothing here makes sense. The couple is barely together for 20 minutes and this almost 2 hour film bores us with all kind of poorly acted and badly scripted film. Tremendously, horribly, cringe-inducingly bad. I try to have patience with some of the LGBTQ movies that paved the way for the more modern approach but even I can't bring myself to find a reason that this movie should ever be viewed again. (2.5/10)
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