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a love story for all the family
Matthew from Swindon, England,
18th September, 2006
You must see this film. It’s a modern day love story for all the (grown-up) family. Probably the best scene is cut (but is included in the 'extras' bit on the DVD). Adam is a Goth in the mid-1980s and happens upon a nightclub playing disco. He is horrified, as is his fat female friend… but then Steve is the lead act in a disco dance troupe. And their eyes meet over the dance floor and love finds a way. Sadly Steve is a junky and having eaten excess chocolate before the show a messy episode occurs on their first date. Flashing forward 17 years and you are in post 9/11 New York where Adam is still on the shelf looking for that perfect number one man to complete his life. Meanwhile Dr Steve gets through two men a week at the gay gym where he has membership… both are desperately lonely and meet again by chance when Adam nearly kills his dog. Both partners fail to recognise each other from the failed encounter a decade and a half earlier. The relationship forms and you follow their lives. Best scenes include a homophobic neighbour who shouts abuse when Steve’s parents visit “God made Adam & Eve… not Adam & Steve”. Adam’s accident-prone Jewish parents and sister are just hilarious… check out Adam’s mum – she is the dotty air-stewardess from the 1980’s Airplane series. The fat friend becomes a stand up comic whose one-gag show revolves around her obese weight – but now that she has lost the fat, the comic genius is lost (except that she laughs at her own humour). There is one crazy line where a man heckles – your jokes are as funny as a heart-attack. She replies, “Oh thanks Dad” – this is so stupid, but I collapsed in a roar of laughter and had to stop the DVD to visit the toilet as I feared I would wet myself [okay, I need help!] One of the scenes cut from the final movie is a sexual encounter between Adam and a mime act – this is so funny, my friends and I were crying tears as we replayed it the third time! A perfect movie to laugh at with friends, a few bottles of wine and some take-away pizza. PS: this is a low-budget movie… indeed Adam the key actor, is also the Director of the movie – which makes you truly appreciate his talent.
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