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List Price: $27.98 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $7.99 Features • AC-3 • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2006 DVD Release : 19 June, 2007 |
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Gray Matters description Gray Matters has one of the most adorable casts of any movie in recent years--the combined sweetness of Heather Graham (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me), Bridget Moynahan (Lord of War), Molly Shannon (Year of the Dog), Thomas Cavanagh (Ed), Alan Cumming (X-Men 2), and Sissy Spacek (Carrie, In the Bedroom) narrowly avoids being diabetes-inducing. Gray (Graham) and her brother Sam (Cavanagh) have been best friends forever--so close that they find it hard to date. Gray pushes Sam into asking out Charlie (Moynahan), but when Sam and Charlie hit it off so well they spontaneously decide to get married, Gray finds herself unexpectedly dismayed... but not as dismayed as she is when, on a girls' night out before the ceremony, she and Charlie share a drunken kiss that sets Gray's body tingling. Gray Matters juggles a lot of emotional issues; the sibling interconnectedness problem doesn't flow smoothly into the coming-out story of the movie's second half. But sprinkled throughout are charming scenes and wonderfully deft moments that make the story's clumsy missteps all the more baffling. There's no question that Graham is a star who just can't seem to find the right vehicle; Gray Matters won't be her breakthrough, but it's further evidence of her significant appeal. --Bret Fetzer |
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| You'd have to pry open a lot of Hollywood projection room closets to find a movie worse than Gray Matters. This vacuous confection, which has all the nutritional value of bubble gum - and is almost as pink - skates adorably across the surface of two dark and interesting themes, both of which are treated as seriously as a Britney Spears song might treat the later works of J.P. Sartre. These topics are, in order of appearance, 1.) a brother/sister relationship so pathologically close it borders on incestuous (see Nabokov) 2.) the emotional strain of coming out as a lesbian. The film attempts to be a comedy - and complex, difficult subjects like these are often the grist for penetrating comedies - but Gray Matters will have none of that. Gray Matters wants you to find it so charming that the only thought going through your mind is how to pinch its little cheek.
The picture stars Heather Graham as Gray, which is a huge head start. Graham exudes clueless charm, innocence, sincerity, and adorable determination, in addition to being a real beauty. She labors valiantly for this movie, but there's just too much working against her. Thomas Cavanagh, as her brother Sam, is staggeringly awful. (That rapid fire delivery of his, recycled from Scrubs, is truly annoying - is that all he's got?) Worse still is Bridget Moynahan who seems to believe that being built like a Victoria's Secret model is the same thing as acting - there are scenes where her derriere threatens to walk off with the picture. When second fiddles and even bit players outshine the principals, you know you've got trouble. Mollie Shannon, as Gray's colleague is a hoot, Sissy Spacek as Gray's unconventional shrink is splendid, Alan Cumming as cabbie turned suitor is wonderful - even walk-on contributors like the wedding dress lady and the Vegas minister offer welcome relief - all because they offer distraction from the slow motion train wreck taking place. I can't imagine anyone who has "come out" not being offended by the sheer superficiality and stupidity of this vehicle. With some disasters it's hard to affix blame, here it's easy. Sue Kramer wrote and directed this 90 minute Banana Republic spread. Even with devolution in full swing and audiences getting dimmer and more superficial by the minute, it's hard to imagine anyone, anywhere thinking this movie was worthwhile. |
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