Gay romantic comedy, not to say lighthearted and jovial especially, about an imperfectly matched couple (one's all-time favorite movie is Gone with the Wind, the other has never seen it: he doesn't like black-and-white) who make repeated and painful attempts to fit together anyway. The original stage play by co-star Dan Bucatinsky evidently dealt with a heterosexual couple. But the recasting of the play has not, contrary to the press notes, produced something "radical" in gay cinema. The movie tries in a modest and ordinary way -- a sort of Nora Ephron way -- to document genuine emotional upheaval in a self-consciously glib, chipper, snappy, catty, sitcommy style of dialogue, and with a conventionally and unconvincingly hopeful ending. (Nice specificity in the two debates over the merits of In and Out, and the single debate over the proper inflection and emphasis in the "Fuzzy Wuzzy" nursery rhyme.) And Bucatinsky the actor certainly knows how to speak the lines of Bucatinsky the writer. Sasha Alexander, half of a parallel heterosexual couple, makes a positive impression, too, whereas her opposite half, the muzzy Adam Goldberg, makes a negative one. Richard Ruccolo is, by some standards, a hunk. Directed by Julie Davis. (2001) — Duncan Shepherd