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Kiss the Bride

Movie Info and Showtimes Sep. 16, 2008

Kiss the Bride Grade: C+
Who's in It: Tori Spelling, Philipp Karner, James O'Shea, Joanna Cassidy, Tess Harper, Robert Foxworth, Garrett M. Brown, Amber Benson

The Basics: So My Best Friend's Wedding wasn't a gay enough movie for you? OK then, here's the supergay version with roles reversed. Two guys who were high school boyfriends grow apart. Then one sends the other an invite to his wedding — to a woman. When the still-gay boyfriend goes home to intervene, he finds out that (a) he still has feelings for the teen sweetheart he left behind and, more problematically, (b) he really likes the fiancée.

What's the Deal? Oh, and that fiancée is played by Spelling, who's already a budding gay icon in the making, thanks to TV movies like Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? and Co-Ed Call Girl and the late '90s gay indie Trick, where she steals every scene she's in. So of course that guy likes her. You will, too, probably, even if you don't care about gay indie cinema. She's charming and funny onscreen, even when the movie strains to be as wacky as it thinks it is.

Who Else Is Good: Cassidy, playing drunk and getting all the best lines. Unfortunately, the gay guys — who are the main two characters — are the least interesting people in the film.

How Many Wedding Movies Does It Take to Screw in a Lightbulb? This wouldn't be getting released if it weren't for the current mania for bride-this and wedding-that movies popping up all over the place. (It's also one of several gay-wedding-themed comedies already produced or currently in the pipeline.) But having said that, it's much better than 27 Dresses. Not sure about where it stands next to Made of Honor quite yet.

Where You'll Probably Find It: On Netflix eventually. These gay indie comedies tend not to make their way outside of big-city art-house theaters. And really, it's friendlier on the small screen anyway.

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