Violet Tendencies (U.S. 2010)

The Gist:

Violet is the "last fag hag in New York," or at least the last woman left in her crowd of friends, all gay men. Rapidly approaching 40 and still single, she is facing the prospect that in order to find a boyfriend she may need to quit her "boys" cold turkey and leave the gay world behind, because it's not like she's going to find a straight man hanging out at gay bars. Also, there's two subplots where two gay couples don't do very much, but drama happens anyway.

Comments (with a couple unimportant spoilers):

Mindy Cohn plays Violet, so the expected joke in writing about the movie would be something about how Natalie from the Facts of Life grew up to be a middle aged fag hag in New York. Although oddly she's not the only familiar face in the movie. I recognized a few men from other indie gay movies, so my viewing went like this: 

"Hey, I remember him. He played a gay writer in another gay movie. Huh. He's a gay writer in this one." 

"Hey I remember that other guy. He played a slutty gay in another gay movie. Huh. He's a slutty gay in this one."

So the lesson is that not only can you be typecast as gay but as a specific kind of gay? Or maybe the lesson is that roles available in indie gay movies are a bit limited, or maybe I'm being too harsh.  

Regardless, the movie is neither good, nor bad, just average. It's also a bit over long, and unfortunately spends a bit too much time on the secondary (and uninteresting) gay characters instead of Mindy, er, Violet. 

Actually, there is something interesting about the her gay boys. The idea is thrown out that they take her for granted and to a certain extent sabotage her attempts at relationships. In the end this is supposed to be untrue because they "love her," yet, pretty much all the movie does is show them taking her for granted and to a certain extent sabotaging her attempts at having a long term relationship.

There is a caveat to my saying the movie is just average, which is that this is obviously not a good movie to watch if you object to the term "fag hag" (or jokes about women's body parts, or lewd humor).

Women:

The protagonist, a co-worker, and a couple other minor roles. 

People of color:

A couple

Gratuitous nudity:

Not technically, though there are some rather revealing gogo boy outfits.

• Director: Casper Andreas
• Writer: Jesse Archer
• Actors: Mindy Cohn, Marcus Patrick, Jesse Archer
• 99 min
• IMDB