The Gist:
A young woman comes home for the holidays to plan her upcoming wedding. She would rather it be small, but her mother is looking to make it a huge gala of an event. If that weren't enough, there are other issues going on, her father is ill, and her brother is an alcoholic, slowly rebuilding his life after he caused it to fall apart. More so, her close friend who also happens to be her brother's ex-boyfriend is coming to help plan the wedding, and in order not to seem pathetically single, the ex-boyfriend has convinced a former boyfriend to come along to pretend to be his new boyfriend. Unfortunately the alcoholic gay brother and the ex-boyfriend's pretend new boyfriend (who is in fact his former boyfriend) share an instant connection, and if not yet apparent, the gay alcoholic brother and the boyfriend shenanigans is the actual "A" storyline going on here.
Comments:
There are regular run of the mill "dramedy" movies and then there are "Hallmark cable" style ones, where everything is amped to 11 and it's filled to overflowing with mild-ish melodrama, angst, illness, amusing hijinks, and the triumph of love over all.
This is the latter, and would fit right in a marathon of TV movies about overcoming obstacles to achieve romance during the holidays.
If you hate cable-style light dramedy pics, it's obviously not worth watching, although in its favor, it's a very well made example of one, and it is a nice sign of change that being gay just an accepted fact of life and is not the source of any of the angst or illness or drama, other than the angst of romance that is.
Women:
Yes
People of color:
The adopted sister
Gratuitous nudity:
Shirtless scenes, but no actual nudity
- Director: Scott Gabriel
- Writers: Ed Gaffney, Suzanne Brockmann, Jason T. Gaffney
- Actors: Paul Fowler, Gavin Greene
- 82 min
- IMDB
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