Adam & Steve
Studio: TLA Releasing
Rated: NOT RATED
Website: http://www.adamandstevemovie.com/
Release Date: 2006-04-21
Cast: Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets, Chris Kattan, Parker Posey, Melinda Dillon
Director: Craig Chester
Screenwriter: Craig Chester
Music Score: Roddy Bottum
WorkNameSort: Adam & Steve
Our Rating: 4.00
There are as many honest laughs in writer/director Craig Chester’s wild, queer romcom – introduced during last August’s GayOrlando Film Festival – as there were in the concurrently released Wedding Crashers. A Central Park bird-watcher and recovering cocaine addict (Chester) falls for a successful psychiatrist (Malcolm Gets); they once shared a disastrous one-night stand, but neither realizes it. Delaying their inevitable reckoning by nearly 90 minutes gives filmmaker Chester ample time to indulge his razor-sharp perception of gay and straight peccadilloes. Meanwhile, nothing beats witnessing Parker Posey evolve from a corpulent fag hag (she gets to wear a fat suit and everything) into a svelte stand-up comic who doesn’t understand why her self-deprecating big-girl humor no longer makes a lick of sense. The humor is so on-target that it’s easy to forgive the few vignettes that overreach; Chester even manages to turn the scourge of violent gay-bashing into a hysterical running gag.
This article appears in Apr 19-25, 2006.