All Over The Guy

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Summary: Puts the FUN back in Dysfunctional
Review: In this movie we have a few stereotypes, the gay guy and his best friend who is a woman, the gay guy afraid of commitment but also some new moves and enough jokes to give you laughs all the way through. this was definetly a fun movie. Set up on a blind date by two friends "A guy and girl who have the hots for each other and need an excuse to keep in contact" two guys, meet, have a disasterous first date and then keep bumping into each other. The guys are attractive but not unrealistic and the female friend is nice and funny but not the weird outrageous type getting so much overplay "e.g. Grace on Will and Grace" Fun side story with the straight couple, as when the guy uses the word butter cup to describe the color of a chair and suddenly has to convince the woman that he is in fact straight. A nice straightforward film that you can watch with friends, a boyfriend or just by yourself.

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Summary: Great Movie
Review: I recently saw this movie in the theatre. Wow. Laughs, drama, story, tears all wrapped up in one very well done movie. Everybody should see it!

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Summary: An All-Around Great Movie (not simply for homosexuals)
Review: During my summer at USC for screenwriting, I was invited to a special pre-screening of this movie because the director is a USC graduate. I generally don't like romantic comedies, but this movie was heartfelt with drama, and genuinely very funny. The controversy is the main focus on a homosexual couple, as opposed to the traditional heterosexual comedy. But, make no mistake, this movie is not aimed at gays, so even though homophobes will likely be turned off by this movie, as long as you're good-natured (meaning you don't hold prejudice- just to clarify, prejudice is bad!), you won't at all feel alienated by the homosexual relationship. The beauty of the movie is that the characters are so wonderfully crafted that it doesn't matter what their sexual preference, everyone can relate to them and their struggles. The movie is light and fun in one respect, but also sincere enough with feeling that it can be quite moving. The director, Julie Davis, attended the screening and responded to our audience questions, at the end of the film, which was an exquisite experience in itself. Lisa Kudrow and Christina Ricci have minor roles in the movie, and the writer/director of the excellent Opposite of Sex and decent Bounce, was executive producer of All Over The Guy. It's a shame the movie will not get wide release, due to the groundbreaking portrayal of homosexual life, but I definitely recommend the movie if you can get past all that.

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Summary: Your typical, light gay movie...
Review: All Over The Guy was a cute movie, although it seems that the formula of boy meets boy movies is becoming the same old boring thing for the movie industry. The best part of this movie was the individual performance of Richard Ruccolo. Aside from being beautiful to look at, he has a charm about him that is difficult to find in any gay movie (except for the wonderful portrayals in the movie Trick). He was normal, natural, and easy on the eyes. Unfortunately, gay stereotypes were still there (alcoholism, overt sexuality, neuroses, flea markets) that for me, a gay man, kinda hindered the overall quality of the movie. Also, the straight couple in the movie (Julie Davis and Adam Rosenberg) had NO SEXUAL chemistry at all, so I didnt believe them for a second. Bottom line: if you want to see Ruccolo in a good role and an average movie, I recommend this.

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Summary: All Over the Guy OverAll The Best Gay film this year
Review: Hi,
As a 46 year old gay man, I have seen the gamut of "gay films", from the controversial BOYS IN THE BAND, CRUISING, to AN EARLY FROST, you name it, INCLUDING the movie made fun of in ALL OVER THE GUY: IN AND OUT, which I liked, but thought of the STUPIDITY on Kevin Kline's character and his deluded fiance...
That said, to see a movie like this with the two leads so personable, BUT with faults, and yet to understand why they HAD THOSE faults is heartening....Sweet, funny, sad, JUST SEE IT NOW!

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Summary: Alcoholics and Jewish Queens; The best love story of 2001
Review: I recently happened to stumble in to Quad Cinema ( NYC )on a very lonely day of the week. Much to my surprise I made it just on time for one of the movies that was on the play list. Now any New Yorker knows how hard it is to catch a movie right on time and actually have tickets still avaible. Well I sat down not kowing what to expect. By the time the movie started and your introduced to the first characters Eli and Tom. You wounder if this is yet another boring love story about two homosexual repressed men trying to find them selves. Only to realize that what they where looking for was staring at them right in there faces. Well call me a cynic but I was right. However it wasn't boring and by no way near trite. I actually fell in love with the movie. Not to mention Richard Ruccolo who plays Tom, an Alcoholic 3rd grade teacher. He is in my book such a cutie.. He deffinetly has K-E (For those who go to see this movie and I think you should. You'll get the acronym)But for those who opt not to go see it. Its Killer Eyes. It is very much a romantic comedy and then some. The two central characters discuss and play out serious emotional and psychological issues that gay or straight, we are all faced with Love, Lust and Alcoholism. The Director Julia Davis does it all in a very witty way.Which by the end of the movie. Your laughing and wondering what will ever become of Tom and Eli. Well Folks thats what imaginations are for. I highly recommend this movie. To all of those starving romantics like Me. You'll eat it up with a spoon.!!! But don't take my word for it. Go and see it and take what you can from it and move on. Movies like this come once in a blue moon.....
And For Richard Ruccolo (Tom) He is the Gayest straight man I have ever seen. Thanks for doing such a great job on your role and making every thing believable. I only wish I could meet a real Tom in new york . hehe. SO every one who reads this Go and See All over the guy I am sure you'll like it. I've seen it twice and toke my friend to see it. I never get tired of it and my friend walk away loving it to.. thanks

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Summary: Real Guys, Real Funny
Review: My partner and I both liked this movie. We were both impressed that the main characters are written as complex... and not just idealized fantasies on the screen. They each have quirky character traits, are not perfectly coiffed, and react to situations in believable ways. The script is funny and touching. The two stars did a great acting job, particularly during the scene with Tom's bitter parents. We also liked the supporting cast, especially Sasha Alexander, Andrea Martin and Lisa Kudrow. The movie isn't great "Art" but it's good entertainment.

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Summary: NO ALTERNATIVE
Review: Ugh! This is uninspired film making at it's most tepid. It has all the substance of a Harlequin romance novel and all the character of your worst home video. It also looks so shoddy with some of the most drab set designs I have ever seen in a film, even a ritzy country club comes off looking like the cheapest garden resteraunt. The plot? Two gay men meet, fall in love and proceed to behave like 6th Graders going steady. What trite. The only gay rights invoked here is the freedom to make a movie as bad as anyone else.

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Summary: Cute, not the best, but cute
Review: Like the title says, this movie was cute. Unfortunately, the review gives too much away, but it still nice to watch. The chemistry between the two leads is great and humor is added in just the right spots to give it a good even feel. The only problem about the film was that some of the characters get sort of annoying after a while and the end kind of leaves you feeling as though not all the loose ends have been tied. This is a good movie to see, maybe even buy if you're into gay romances.

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Summary: "You think just because we f***ed, that makes us a........."
Review: A pure romantic comedy this is NOT.........perhaps, more correctly, it's a "dramedy." After all, how many mainstream gay movies have you ever seen in which a character utters such a descriptive term (see title of this review) for a sexual act that's earlier taken place? Yes, this movie's for real, and it is very much a real life movie. Just stop to think about it, that when you've had Eli's and, particularly, Tom's kinds of childhood, well, you then have a great deal to overcome in adult life, whether it be in a hetereosexual or a homosexual relationship. And if you, dear reader, haven't grown up in a household where alcohol has been a parental "drug of choice," then don't presume to judge Tom's behavior in this movie. Most realistically, Ruccolo has made Tom a direct product of his parent's relationship.

In this "romantic comedy" Ruccolo gives us an especially intense performance which is actually easy to see, if you will only carefully watch his scenes: the telling facial expressions and eye movement; his body-set when he, for example, moves to stand against Eli in one scene, or to unobtrusively cup Eli's hands in another; even his movement of jaw muscles (did someone think his role through, or not!) His end-of-film, wedding kitchen "tirade" (Hey!!!!!) is more than enough to almost scare and stop any viewer short, as it certainly does Eli in that scene. This guy is one hell of an actor......why haven't we since seen a lot more of him? (The "curse" of playing a gay role; is there such a thing?)

Yet it is in Eli's control freak behavior that lies Tom's salvation. For of all the things Eli's shrink parents have given him that they shouldn't have, it's his capacity for understanding, which they also bequeathed, that will in the end save Tom......and Eli, himself, as well. And Bucatinsky is just great at showing us a little bit of ourselves (or, perhaps, a lot) in his skillful portrayal.

If you're reading reviews for a movie such as this, then please accept my recommendation to make it a part of any DVD collection you may have.....it's more than worthy of repeated viewings.......you'll catch so much more each time that you do.