By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1 cat
Director: Darren Stein
Starring: Andrea Bowen | Michael J. Willett | Molly Tarlov | Paul Iacono | Sasha Pieterse | Xosha Roquemore
Country: united_states
Year: 2014
Running time: 92
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2429074/combined
Kyle says: “G.B.F. for fossils like me stands for Gay Best Friend. If nothing else, this programmer establishes clearly that independent cinema can be every bit as stupid and regressive as big budget corporate Hollywood endeavors. Unless you regard as progressive the transition from Cher missing that her boyfriend is gay because he dresses and dances better than she, and likes to shop, in the witty CLUELESS (1995), to Fawcett preventing a gay-bashing by threatening to reveal the size of her jock ex-boyfriend’s penis in G.B.F. Or you regard as clever the notion of rival high school cliques outing a boy still debating coming out, and essentially adopting him as an ‘accessory’ to be paraded about, shown off, be witty with, shop and dine with, and nominate as Prom King. The reluctant G.B.F. (Michael J. Willett) meanwhile abandons his B.F.F. (Best Friend Forever) (Paul Iacono) to creepy scenes of sharing popcorn and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN with his mother, occasionally kissing a closeted Mormon boy with an extremely annoying bigoted Mormon girlfriend. To suggest that G.B.F. had not a chance in hell of success is beside the point, starting with a terrible screenplay and fatal mistake of miscasting the two male leads. Did someone really think casting Michael J. Willett as the G.B.F. and Paul Iacono as the B.F.F. was the right choice, as opposed to switching the two actors? Does anyone care? 1 cat.
Seen Monday, June 2, 2014, Netflix, New York.”