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Out at the Wedding

Logo, Paramount / Year: 2007

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Synopsis

The makers of Girl Play are back with this wacky lesbian/gay comedy about misunderstandings, families and love! A screwball comedy in the Hepburn/Tracy tradition, Out at the Wedding tells the story of Alex, a woman who brings her gay buddy to a family wedding to avoid telling them she has a black/Jewish boyfriend. All hell breaks lose when the family becomes convinced that Alex is a lesbian.

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A truly funny movie for both boys and girls
Witty and smart, Out at the Wedding will soon be a queer classic.
Audience award-winner at many gay & lesbian film festivals!

Review

A small misunderstanding snowballs into a grandly glorious mess in this screwball comedy that recalls the hysterical lesbian/gay staple It’s in the Water. Smart and sexy New Yorker Alex Houston (Andrea Marcellus) has got two hot men in her life: her gay pal Jonathan (Charlie Schlatter), and her handsome bi-racial boyfriend, Dana (Mystro Clark). All is well until Dana proposes to her as she’s about to leave for her sassy sister Jeannie’s (Desi Lydic) wedding back home in Texas. It turns out that Alex, embarrassed by her racist family, fabricated a story about how they were all killed in an accident so that Dana wouldn’t ask to meet them. As her sister’s wedding date approaches, she brings along the very gay Jonathan, telling her family that she’s single. All hell breaks loose at the wedding when Alex accidentally confesses to a guest that she’s a lesbian, and her supposedly right-wing family unexpectedly supports their freshly out-of-the-closet family member. Jeannie, wanting to get closer to her lesbian sister, flies to New York to meet the special “woman” in Alex’s life. Quickly, Jonathan and Alex decide to “hire” a “girlfriend” with some wonderfully unforeseen consequences!

Director Lee Friedlander and producers Laura Kellam and Gina Goff are back after their 2005 smash hit Girl Play. Smart, funny and beautifully-made, Out at the Wedding saves the biggest laughs and surprises for the end!

-- Scott Cranin

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DVD : $22.99

Availability: Usually ships in
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Region Code: 1
UPC: 097368942349
Catalog #: DV2764682

Studio : Logo, Paramount

Languages: English Dolby Digital (Primary)
Aspect Ratio: Widescreen
Features:
Audio commentary: with director Lee Friedlander
Cast interviews

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Orientation and Identity

Amos Lassen wrote on 12/09/2008:

"Out at the Wedding”

Orientation and Identity

Amos Lassen

It is always a pleasure to see a situational comedy with great characters. Unfortunately that doesn’t happen very often. Lee Friedlander gives us one, however, with “Out at the Wedding”, one of the most refreshing gay themed movie I have seen in a long time. It is very funny and the characters both amuse and engage and the actors give memorable performances. We all know that comedy is not easy to pull off but the comedy of this film is exquisite and sublime,
“Out at the Wedding” is not a gay film, per se. It is a film with gay characters. There is one stereotypical gay man (Jonathon)who is important to the plot but this is a film for everyone.
Alex (who lives in New York) is originally from the South and she is in love with a bi-racial Jewish airline pilot. Because she is afraid of how her family will react to her marrying a bi-racial, she tells her fiancé and his parents that her family is dead. When Alex goes home to attend the wedding of her sister, Jonathon, her best friend, is questioned as to why he and Alex are not getting married and when Jonathon announces that he is gay, suspicion arises that Alex may be a lesbian. The rumor begins to circulate at the wedding and the guests find themselves talking about the situation.
Now Alex has to pretend that she is a lesbian because her sister Jeannie is going to pay her a visit. Alex also now has to find someone to pretend to be Dana and Risa, an athletic lesbian is recruited to do the job. The plan goes awry when Jeannie and Risa meet and what we get is a screwball comedy that will keep you laughing and you will not stop. This is simply one of the funniest films I have ever seen.
The film premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival in May 2007 and was received ecstatically and has been screening along the festival circuits, in many cases as the opening film. It has been nicknamed as “a comedy cocktail with a splash of Southern Comfort and a gay twist.”