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Love! Valour! Compassion!

1997 · 108 min

A talky, tender ensemble piece that feels like a stage play, mixing witty banter and drag-show camp with quiet grief and mortality.

Tagline
Eight men. One summer. Figure it out.
Overview
A group of gay friends spend summer weekends together at a lakeside house in upstate New York. As the season progresses and secrets begin to surface, the complex relationships within the group are sometimes strained and sometimes strengthened.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • friendship
  • love
  • death
  • identity
  • found family
Places
  • single country house
  • countryside
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour5
Realism7
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Joe Mantello
Written by
Terrence McNally
Starring
Jason Alexander, Stephen Spinella, Stephen Bogardus, Randy Becker, John Benjamin Hickey, Justin Kirk, John Glover
Music
Harold Wheeler
Cinematography
Alik Sakharov
Runtime
108 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
Russian, English

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