The Gist:
A gay man comes out to his family. A family that is not merely Jewish, but are instead JEWISH! His boyfriend is already out to his family who are similarly not merely Sicilian, but SICILIAN! The two families must learn to accept each other as the boys look to not only to live a life together, but to do so as adoptive fathers.
Comments:
The acting and production are more or less okay, but over all the movie is not so much more or less okay as much as it's boring.
Boring for a couple of reasons. It is not merely an "I'm both gay and ethnic and ain't that a hoot" comedy, but one doubled, so that both gay guys have over the top families allowing for a lot of over the top ethnic jokes, and frankly there's a very low limit to how many Jewish and/or Italian jokes can be chucked at the audience before it gets monotonous.
The other issue pushing it towards dullness is that the focus of the movie is primarily on the Jewish parents, dealing with the "shock" of their son being gay. What did we do wrong? How could he do this to us? My son better be the "man" of the relationship! How will my gay son affect my social standing in the community? Why is he choosing to embarrass me this way? The usual predictable stuff, that has been rehashed repeatedly in this type of movie to the point where I could not be bothered to care about anything happening on screen anymore
Women:
Several
People of color:
Not really
Gratuitous nudity
No
- Director: Evgeny Afineevsky
- Writers: Evgeny Afineevsky, Menahem Golan
- Actors: John Lloyd Young, Jai Rodriguez, Lainie Kazan, Saul Rubinek
- 90 min
- IMDB
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