Adam & Steve R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 8, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Tla
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Craig Chester & Parker Posey | |
Performer: | Chris Kattan, Malcolm Gets, Melinda Dillon, Sally Kirkland, Julie Hagerty, Jackie Beat & Steve Geary | |
Directed by | Craig Chester | |
Edited by | Phyllis Housen | |
Written by | Craig Chester | |
Produced by | George Bendele & Darryl Anderle | |
Director of Photography: | Carl Bartels & Brian Pryzpek |
Entertainment Reviews:
Adam & Steve mainly goes to prove that indie gay romantic comedies can be just as witless, vulgar and over the top as their straight, major studio counterparts.
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 3/4 --
Clever, liberatingly silly and sweet.
Seattle Times
Chester has a good ear for the snappy one-liner and this, plus his obviously hard-earned knowledge of the quirks in the gay mating game, put over his determinedly black romantic comedy.
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Film Journal International
Rating: 0/4 --
A clunky doofus, a comedy of meet-cutes and weak jokes.
San Diego Union-Tribune
Rating: 2/5 --
Starting your film with a display of public incontinence isn't the best way to win over the audience.
Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 4/4 --
A lighthearted look at gay love, and a far more honest and ultimately more touching exploration of the theme than what we got up on Brokeback Mountain.
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Upstage Magazine
Rating: C --
It tries for cheap laughs, gets a couple of them, and whizzes the rest of them right down its pant leg.
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EricDSnider.com
Product Description:
When Adam (Craig Chester, also the film's writer and director) and Steve (Malcolm Gets of TV's CAROLINE IN THE CITY) first meet in the 1980s, Adam is a full-fledged Goth, all eyeliner and morbid posturing, while Steve is a sparkle-covered disco queen. Even so, the two are magnetically drawn to each other, and Steve offers Adam his very first dose of cocaine. Cut to seventeen years later. Adam, now a recovered cocaine addict, finds himself in an emergency room with his beloved pet dog, whom he has accidentally stabbed. As fate (and movie logic) would have it, Steve is the doctor assigned to treat him. Though they don't initially remember one another, the magnetic pull has remained, and the two find themselves building a relationship. Meanwhile, Adam's best friend Rhonda (the always delightful indie queen Parker Posey), dumpy and obese in high school, who has transformed herself into a stylish and thin stand-up comic, begins a relationship with Steve's straight housemate, Michael (former Saturday Night Live regular Chris Kattan).
The road to lasting love is, of course, filled with potholes. Misunderstandings, strange relatives, fear, and doubt all crystallize into dramatic plot points, both humorous and serious. One of the most hysterical scenes occurs the first time Steve dines with Adam's family, a group of accident-prone Jews, each of whom is nursing a different injury. All four leads are charming, and choreographed dance sequences delight with their modernization of a classic generic style.
The road to lasting love is, of course, filled with potholes. Misunderstandings, strange relatives, fear, and doubt all crystallize into dramatic plot points, both humorous and serious. One of the most hysterical scenes occurs the first time Steve dines with Adam's family, a group of accident-prone Jews, each of whom is nursing a different injury. All four leads are charming, and choreographed dance sequences delight with their modernization of a classic generic style.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 114,912
- UPC: 807839002287
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