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Sexual identity is the subject of what strives to be breezy romantic comedy, but director Sue Kramer’s script is far too cutesy. Gray (Heather Graham) and Sam (Tom Cavanagh) are sister and brother. Sis wants brother to find a girlfriend. He does, becoming smitten by Charlie (Bridget Moynahan) when they meet in New York’s Central Park. Much to Gray’s amazement, they decide to get married quickly.
Gray is wary, but she agrees to be the maid of honor and they all fly to Las Vegas for the ceremony. Charlie thinks it would be nice and traditional to keep apart on the eve of the wedding, so the gals spend the evening together getting sloshed, and back in the hotel room there is a surprise intimate kiss between them.
It means nothing to Charlie, but Gray is jolted out of her wits with the revelation that she liked it and is in love with Charlie, who doesn’t even realize what Gray’s oblique references to what happened mean. Charlie simply loves Sam. Complications grow from there.
Alan Cumming has a showy but thankless role as a cab driver who tries to help Gray sort out her life, including a scene in which he gets into drag and introduces her a lesbian bar, where a surprise awaits her. Sissy Spacek has even a more thankless part analyzing Gray while they struggle up the rocky wall of a Broadway climbing attraction.
As you might have discerned by now, the film becomes increasingly ridiculous. I felt like saying go back in the closet, please. A Yari Film Group release.
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