Love! Valour! Compassion!
by Joe Mantello
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Actor: Jason Alexander, John Benjamin Hickey, Randy Becker, Stephen Bogardus, Stephen SpinellaDirector: Joe Mantello
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 120 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: New Line Home Video
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Movie Review: "Some people do things spontaneously!"
Summary: 2 Stars
If only the director and screenwriter were among them! This film version of the Broadway play about gay friends who spend three summer weekends together is incredibly clich?, forced, and feels anything but spontaneous.
Old friends getting together could be interesting, but all these people talk about is being gay and it gets old fast. There isn't one line of dialogue that is believable or one character that rings true; they're too glib and there's no connection between them or with me. Jason Alexander does a good Nathan Lane impersonation but it's way too much and Lane is better. John Glover plays twin brothers, one a cranky sourpuss who desperately wants to be loved, the other a sweetheart dying of AIDS. Neither seemed real to me. The other characters were more subdued and tolerable, but they still perform like they're reciting lines; there are no pauses or nuances, their characters have no real love, valour, or compassion.
This MUST have played better on the stage, since most of the cast is from the play, but it misses the mark on the big screen. For me, it was tedious and disappointing and The Boys in the Band from 1970 is a far better film.
Summary of Love! Valour! Compassion!
"Love!" follows eight gay men, longtime friends, who spend three summer holiday weekends together at a beach house.The premise sounds great but the promise is never fulfilled. Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning hit about a cluster of gay male friends who gather several times one summer at a Victorian house on the bank of a rural lake never quite measures up (at least on film) as anything particularly profound. The story traces a history of infighting and changing relationships within the group, with the shock of AIDS slowly pushing everyone toward greater closeness and honesty. But instead of making an impact, so much of the film is trivial: dinner conversations are banal, tantrums are tedious, genitals are a little too overexposed. The two best and most familiar actors in the piece, Jason Alexander and John Glover, ironically play the most clich?-ridden characters. Still, Glover--who portrays British twin brothers who could not be more different from one another--is a very good reason to see this film. --Tom Keogh
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