In & Out- I like this film. A lot.

Not realistic at all, mind you. There's this professor Howard Brackett, played by Kevin Kline, who is really too perfect to be a real person. He's about to get married, has the job he loves which is teaching English literature, is loved by all his students which in itself is fantasy all over, he's the couch of the school team and all the players love him more than a best friend ( too much, really, it's not realistic at all), he's appreciated and respected by the whole town... I mean, seriously, this is too much, how could a city like this really exist??
Anyway, if you accept the first few minutes of the film, when this character is introduced, then the rest of the film is lovely and funny and adorable.
His bride-to-be Emily, played by  Joan Cusack, is a nervous-wreck girl who now is thin and pretty but apparently she was very fat, she says at least, and she suffered a lot to be thin and pretty.
Howard and Emily are watching the Oscar ceremony as long as everyone else in the small town of Greenleaf because Cameron Drake ( played by Matt Dillon) grew up there, and when he wins he thanks Howard in his speech and says that "professor Brackett is gay". Cameron has won the oscar for his character of a gay soldier in such a stupid film: we are shown a few clips and it's terrible but funny. Anyway, that's why he says that. And for a few seconds there's silence in the whole town. Even Howard itself is mute, can't understand why he said that, and then keep telling everyone he's not gay, he's getting married!
News reporter Peter (played by a very funny Tom Selleck) follows him in order to get to the truth, or possibly to be the only one to get the scoop when it will come out :lol
Anyway, the other journalists make such stupid questions, it's surreal, but probably there was a time when most people thought like that, and unfortunately many people probably still do. Anyway, he's still denying with everybody, he's going out of his mind, when out of the blue Peter kisses him. A good, long, nice kiss! And apparently Howard liked it. He's all confused now. The most famous scene is probably when he tries to find out how much a macho he is trying to resist to the music of "I will survive" and failing, and dancing like crazy in the house. Perfectly understandable if you ask me. I still can't believe how anyone can resist the music of I Will Survive. It's such a great song, really beautiful, one of the best songs ever.
The day of the wedding arrives, everything is ready, she says I Do, he says I'm Gay... and Peter is there filming everything. Poor Emily of course is having a breakdown, she says she lost 33kg for him, she let him decide everything, choose her dress even, all her life was based on the fact that he wanted to marry her, and I surely felt very bad for her, and totally agreed that he should have told her before, not at the altar!!
For a few minutes I wanted to hit a lot of those stupid characters, all of a sudden not wanting to have anything to do with him. Jerks. But they make up for that at the end, when they stand up for him. Literally, standing up and saying I'm gay too. A bit too long is was, but understandable. Remember "Dead poet's society" when all the kids stand up calling him My Captain? Same thing.
They are driven to this by a sensible speech given by Cameron himself, come to Greenleaf to help the professor, realising he had put him in a difficult situation. Howard was in fact fired because he was gay, and this is the realistic bit. In this fucked-up world you can very well expect something like that, there are a lot of assholes out there unfortunately.
However this is a movie, so it all ends well.
When this film came out, I remember there was real curiosity as of the end: he's really gay or not? I was always convinced he was, and when a friend said "it doesn't end well, poor girl, he's really gay" and I said "sure it DOES end well, even for her. She was marrying him only because she had such low self-esteem she thought she had to change herself so as to be accepted and loved, but now she meets a famous and cute movie-star who thought she was "so beautiful" before the diet, and that now sits next to her feeding her chips, in a nice-relaxed way! Happy ending for everyone, in my opinion!
The funniest moment for me it's a little moment when Cameron is with his top-model girlfriend, but leaves her to go to Greenleaf, telling her to call a taxy herself and for God's sake please eat something! so she goes back into the room of the motel where they had stopped, looks at this old-fashion telephone, with a dial not push buttons, and the first time I saw her hesitate looking at it, I thought she couldn't remember the number of his agent, or something like that, but instead she was so confused by the dial phone, she started pressing it with her finger as if it had push-buttons. I laughed out loud, the first time I honestly almost rolled on the floor laughing for this. I don't know, I just found it very funny. Still do, but now I know what to expect so I can control myself   :-p
Cameron was presented the oscar by Glenn Close as herself, and apparently the other nominations were Paul Newman Clint Eastwood and Steven Seagal.
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I know they were fake nominations, but seriously Steven Seagal nominated?? That's too much.
Whoopi Goldberg makes a cameo in this film as herself.
Tom Selleck and Kevin Kline were really great!