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Jesus Malverde

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Mon Jan 27, 2014, 11:41 PM Jan 2014

G.B.F.: New Film Explores Gay Friendships With Humor

Darren Stein's new film G.B.F. (Gay Best Friend) won't be drawing comparisons to Will and Grace -- that fondly remembered sitcom was about a gay man and a straight woman who really were best friends. Stein's film is a comedy about high school cliques, where the queen bees use gay male friends as status symbols.

The performances are broad and the dialogue is often silly. Yet, G.B.F. has heart. Through it's humor it manages to make a fairly serious statement on the meaning of friendship and the importance of being true to one's identity.

Michael J. Willet and Paul Iacono are delightful as Tanner and Brent, two closeted gay nerds, best friends who might just be in love. That friendship is tested when bitch/diva Fawcett (Sasha Pieterse) decides to make Tanner over into the kind of hot, trendy, gay man she thinks he should be. Suddenly the invisible geek is the most popular guy at school.

As Brent watches sadly along the sidelines, Tanner both embraces and questions his new life, while wondering who his real friends are.

"The movie is the message," says filmmaker Darren Stein. "G.B.F. is an American genre film, a teen comedy, told from a gay point of view. The queer teenager is no longer relegated to the sidelines as the sidekick or accessory in the teen movie genre. He's a full blooded character who wants to belong and be loved it's his journey."

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2014/01/gbf_new_film_explores_gay_frie.php




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