Adam & Steve (2005)
June 22nd 2010 06:44
Adam & Steve Poster
Welcome to the first post in my new blog, dedicated to reviewing Queer Themed features, shorts and documentaries. I currently write reviews for Film Mage and thought it was a good idea to start a new blog, especially for reviews of Queer Cinema, so here we are.
Adam & Steve, written and directored by Craig Chester, tells the tale of two thirty-something gay men who meet and fall in love. It's a light-hearted, romantic comedy that doesn't try to ram a moral down your throat. There's drama, but not in the way you would expect from Queer Cinema.
Adam a recovering alcoholic and drug addict meets Steve, a pyschiatrist at a New York City hospital after accidentally stabbing his dog when both try to eat the same piece of salami.
Meeting up in Central Park a short time later, the commitment shy doctor asks Adam out on a date, and the relationship which follows shows both what they have been missing out on all these years.
Deciding that Adam is the one for him, Dr Steve takes him to his favourite place in New York City, the Brooklyn Bridge to pop the question, and it is there on the bridge that memories of a previous encounter 17 years earlier return, and Steve panics and flees, leaving a heart broken Adam to try and figure out what went wrong.
Their reunion at an inner city country and western club is a lot of fun, and leads to Adam leaving Steve standing on the sidewalk, his perfect facade ruined.
Malcolm Gets and Craig Chester at the films Premier
This is a great film, with a lot of laughs. Parker Posey as Adams once overweight best friend is fantastic as always and Chris Kattan as Steve's straight slutty room mate provide a lot of the laughs as the two come to grips with their best friends relationship, and each other.
There is a scene were Adam takes Steve home to dinner and tries to explain the Bernstein Curse, and the comic precision of Julie Hagerty as Adam's mother is unbeatable.
Adam & Steve sets out, not be a deep thinking film, but a light-hearted romantic comedy about two men in love. It acheives it's goals admirably and it is no wonder the film has become an instant classic in Queer Cinema.
I watched this film on the recommendation of a friend in Israel, and having heard nothing about it really I had no idea what to expect. The one liners are sharp and taunt, the acting is on the money and the fillm is a wonderful journey into the complicated lives and relationship of it's too central characters.
Adam & Steve is well worth watching if you can find it.
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