Daniel is a young handsome merchant banker living in Manhattan with his beautiful fiancee Jenn a lawyer and they are busy planning their large family wedding in New Jersey next month. The ex college jock who is planning to lead the exact same happy life his wealthy parents did, seems to have it all. That is until one day he runs into his old college buddy Tommy and after a excessive amount of alcohol has his first every passionate night of man on man sex and which he loves. Not enough to want to try it again, and so next morning he tells the smitten Tommy that this was strictly a one-off.
Tommy has other ideas and engineers running into Daniel at the gym and even becoming Jenn’s new best friend. He plays a clever game of pursuit as he is convinced that not only is Daniel gay too, but that he also is in love with him too. Their off, but never really on, relationship is sidelined whilst Daniel goes through with the wedding and surprisingly Jenn becomes pregnant but it’s apparent that his feelings for Tommy have hardly waned at all. In fact now some months later, their roles are reversed and he is the one doing all the chasing.
In this new take on the same theme of the classic gay movie ‘Making Love’, there is a neat and unexpected twist to the end and suddenly the poor wife with her total lack of gaydar, and the once-eager Tommy are no longer the victims of Daniel’s struggle with his sexuality. It’s not a bad wee movie at all but it would be a more convincing tale if there was some actual chemistry between the two men who at times just seem like they are going through the paces, throwing in the occasional grunt and grown.
For many gay men, making out with a ‘straight’ man is a hot sexual fantasy, but when they turn out to be repressed homosexuals after all, the fun soon wears off. I’m told.
Labels: 2011, coming out, drama, gay
