Friday, January 20, 2012
CROOKED
Today's gay film is really a film for all people. Not on the best list. I grabbed it out of the "to see" bin and put it in this collection.
Echte Kerle / Regular Guys (1996)
A cop's girl friend throws him out and through a series of circumstances ends up staying the night with a kind stranger who he meets in a bar. It is a gay bar. He is very drunk. A blackout.
Waking up in the morning, he finds that he is in bed with another man. His homo-panic goes into high gear but the understanding gay man smooths it out and so the cop decides to stay for awhile. In the guest room.
From here we get into a convoluted crime scene, the cop is on a watch with two partners........and, keerist. It gets very complicated.
But the focus is on what becomes a friendship and even a courtship with the gay guy.
Everything in this is gentle and sweet and very human. It is a sort of farce but not in the manic style.
The cop has a best friend and a new female partner. Complicated.
I enjoyed this film very much. The gay straight byplay is right on the mark. Nicely done. It is a romance comedy with all flavors thrown in.
I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5. I think a one time pleasure as having seen it once, the plot mechanics might not work a second time.
