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ALL OVER THE GUY

What do gay men want? Don’t ask the characters in Julie Davis’s film or they’ll bend your ear with their answers. Until the film’s bathetic last third, the talk (written by Dan Bucatinsky, who also stars) is mostly brisk and witty. Then, as the plot and the schmaltz thicken, the dialogue gets glib — and worse. Two guys, one a needy Jewish anal-retentive looking for Mr. Right (Bucatinsky), the other a Joe-six-pack gentile slob looking for Mr. Right Now (Richard Ruccolo), meet on a blind date; but despite tedious recriminations, flashbacks, self-help therapy, contrived subplots (the straight friends pair up), gratuitous cameos (Christina Ricci, Lisa Kudrow), and the repeated asking of the question " What do you want? " , they still don’t know what they want. And you won’t care.

BY PETER KEOUGH

Issue Date: September 6 - 13, 2001





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