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Summary: All Gay Stereotypes--Get Out!
Review: I have not seen the stage version of this, but I have read the script. I was really taken, never more so than by the relationships the characters have, with their partners and their friends. The closeness is conveyed with a sensitivity that was unexpected.Considering most of the performers were in the stage production, it seems natural they handle it so well. John Glover was phenomenal as the twin brothers, and Jason Alexander...well, I never cared much for his "Seinfeld" character, and I could care less about most of the other stuff he's done. But a well-done performance...I loved his hilarious naked romp, but even more his moment of introspection, his coming to grips with his illness and that terrible fear of who will be there for him when he needs someone? All around, a film that inspired, and really got me.
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Summary: Awful
Review: I hope I never have to meet people like anyone in this movie ever again. Unfunny, unemotional, and completely unlikeable. Did I mention that the film itself it awful? Almost as unlikeable as the characters.
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Summary: Normal Gay Guys
Review: I love this movie because it shows normal gay guys, not a lot of drag queens or party boys. These guys remind me of my friends, their struggles and their lives. It is a comedy with a message. A must see for all those who want to know what it is like to be gay in the mainstream gay world.
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Summary: Wonderful gay movie
Review: I loved this movie. I thought it was sweet, tender, and romantic. It's like the gay Bill Chill. Except for Jason Alexender and John Glover mostly a small no-name cast. I think every gay person can identify with one of the characters. I would like to think I'm like the Randy Becker character, and sometimes I tell myself I am:). It's very sweet and John Glover is excellent in a dual role. Jason Alexender is very funny. I wouldn't call it a flop, I do know people like these characters. I think it's a winner all around.
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Summary: Beautiful Film Adaptation of Moving Broadway Hit
Review: I suppose I can understand where so many of my fellow viewers claim that the characters in L!V!C! are sterotypes. For the most part, they do fall into cliched perceptions of gay men...however one must bear in mind that not only is the author a gay man...he is a multiple Tony award winning playwright..one has to assume he knows that of which he writes. L!V!C! was a beautitful, tocuhing and laugh-out-loud funny piece of theatre when I saw it on Broadway, and it lost none of it's elegance in it's translation to film. The cast is superb...and for those who critisize Jason Alexander's performance as being one-dimensional obviously didn't watch through until the end of the film. Alexander delivers a rich, layered interpretion of the show-tune singing Buzz...and brings levels to the character that were left completely unexplored in the stage version. L!V!C! is one of those rare film that you can watch again and again because it has it all...you'll laugh out loud, you'll muse at difficult truths, you'll learn a little something about yourself and you might just shed a few tears. An extremely worthwhile film penned by one of the Great American Masters...treat yourself and view this film at the first oppertunity you get.
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Summary: I hated everyone of these characters!
Review: I thank heaven that I do not have friends like these because if I did, I would run off to a desert island. I never saw such a bunch of new age-sensitive-getting in touch with our inner children-wimpy guys in my life! Everyone is so self-absorbed, so-o-o sensitive, so-o-o rich and self indulgent- who could stand to be in a relationship with any of them?? These are the kind of guys who should all be working as therapists or social workers - that way, the only people who would have to listen to them would be desperately lonely people who would welcome any human contact. If I was ever at a dinner that included one of the conversations in this movie, I would pretend that my beeper had just gone off so that I could get the heck out of there on some false pretense!! What a pack of wimps! This script is nothing but a soap opera for gay men. I am gay and I hated it!! And them!!!
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Summary: Touching, poignant
Review: I thought this film was outstanding. I put it in a class with the film "It's My Party". It's a wonderful character study, and I only wish that I could be part of a group of friends (as described by the narrator, "like a family") like this. Of course, some of the characters could be described as stereotypical, but they're certainly not one-dimensional. This story is splendidly cast, and beautifully filmed. It's touching, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, sometimes campy, but very realistic. I found myself drawn into it, and felt as though I was there in that charming lakeside country house.
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Summary: AN HONEST YET FUNNY RIDE
Review: I was not luck enough to see this wonderful movies when it was a play but i am forever grateful that i had a chance to see and the later purchase this wonderful movie. LVC shows us whats its like to have a group of friends so close that sharing ones feelings and needs need not be an exercise in terror. Yes there are sterotypes but hey i know myself i identified with a few of the characters. LVC has it all honesty laughs and a great cast. Jason alexander as buzz made me laugh and cry and John Glover doing dual rolls omg how incredible. This is a must see
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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: I was pleasantly surprised on several levels. First, this was actually on TV (UPN) on a Sunday at noon. I've never seen anything like this on regular TV. Kudos to UPN. Second, I don't care for Jason Alexander. I almost skipped the movie because of him. He was so over the top and stereotypical...the first half. Stay tuned because he actually does some really good work, as does Glover. Finally, I really like hearing about the future of each character. Really helped to wrap it up. I find myself searching the internet to find other movies by this writer and with these actors.
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Summary: Offensive
Review: I was unable to decide if I was more offended by the stereotypical (I would say homophobic except that it is written by a gay man)humor or by the sentimental and manipulating drama in this film. There was not a single character who was endearing; there was not a single relationship in the group that seemed to express love; and there were very few conversations that were interesting or plausibly motivated. Jason Alexander played his part as if he were doing a politically incorrect skit for Fox TV. And the story about the twin brothers with completely different personalities was stupid, a symbolic ploy that may have won praise if written by a junior high school student. The only positive element of this film is that it made me appreciate the fast forward button on the remote.
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