And that is obviously a remake of a Spencer Tracy movie, where Elizabeth Taylor played his daughter. One of the movies that is a gigantic comfort-food pick for me is the 90s-era Nancy Meyers Father Of The Bride with Steve Martin. According to the trailer, at least, it's going to be directly addressing the white, rich, cis privilege of the queer community, and of Fire Island in particular. It's going to be telling this very familiar story from a perspective we haven't seen a lot before.
It matters who's telling the story, because the film's two leads are Booster and Bowen Yang. Take the bones of Pride And Prejudice, and map it over the way that gay men tend to sort ourselves into these very insular cliques based on things like race and income level and age and body fat percentage, and frankly, it just works. This seems to be a kind of raucous gay romcom set in a very privileged queer vacation destination, Fire Island.Īnd the idea behind this movie is just so simple and inevitable. Both of those movies are really kind of quiet and introspective, but this doesn't seem to be. He directed two films I really like called Spa Night and Driveways. This is a film written by and starring the very funny Joel Kim Booster, directed by Andrew Ahn.
