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Grief

TLA Releasing / Year: 1993

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Synopsis

The drama behind-the-scenes with the wacky staff beats the on-screen drama on the daytime TV show, "The Love Judge." This classic queer indie stars Craig Chester (Swoon, Kiss Me Guido, Frisk) Alexis Arquette (The Trip, I Think I Do) and drag superstar Jackie Beat. Grief was directed by Richard Glatzer (The Fluffer).

3 Reasons To watch this film

The ensemble cast is top-notch.
It won Best Feature awards at the San Francisco and Torino Gay & Lesbian Film Festivals.
Richard Glatzer is the co-director behind The Fluffer & Quinceañera

Review

With the same quirky, endearing qualities which distinguished producer Yoram Mandel's first film Parting Glances, writer-director Glatzer has taken his personal experiences as a writer for TV's "Divorce Court" and fashioned an engaging and funny comedy-drama about friendship, love, bereavement and trash TV. Set during an eventful workweek, the film follows the misadventures of Mark (Craig Chester), a writer for "The Love Judge", a daytime TV show, as he comes to grips with his co-workers, office politics, an office crush, homophobia and the loss of his lover. Jackie Beat (in a "Divine" bit of casting) plays the show's overbearing but maternal producer. Alexis Arquette also stars as a bisexual employee involved in a secret office romance. Highlighting the film are campy renditions of the TV soap opera, which includes everything from lesbian circus performers to schizophrenic divas.

-- Raymond Murray