Adam and Steve and Bob and Chris
by Tallulah
Givehead
A
pioneering actor in the independent film world,
Craig Chester scored a 1993 Independent Spirit
Award nomination for his role in the drama
Swoon (1992), and has appeared in many other
Sundance faves. In "Adam
& Steve" Craig Chester makes his directorial
debut with this raucous and candy-colored romantic
comedy about the pitfalls of falling in love in New
York City.
At the Limelight
disco, where shoulder pads and acid-washed jeans
reign supreme, Goth guy Adam (Chester) and his fag
hag Rhonda (a hilarious
Parker Posey) meet Steve (Malcolm
Gets), a Solid gold dancer wanna-be. Adam takes
Steve home but after several bumps of coke laced
with baby laxatives, their date comes to a comically
explosive end.
Flash to 2005 and as
fate would have it, Adam and Steve encounter each
other again, blissfully unaware that they had
previously met. As the two men begin courting each
other, aided by the newly svelte Rhonda
and Steve's straight roommate (Chris
Kattan of "Saturday Night Live") clues begin to
pop up about Adam and Steve's pasts.
Chester and Gets,
both openly gay actors, provide an authentic
and appealing spin to the "boy meets boy" film genre
in queer cinema. Supported by a strong cast (Posey
and Kattan shine), appearances by
Julie Hagerty,
Sally Kirkland and
Jackie Beat, and a toe-tapping country western
musical number, Adam & Steve delivers
laugh-out-loud sight gags and witty one-liners - yet
it also has just the right amount of heart to touch
the romantic in all of us.
Tallulah Givehead is
a Fabulous drag queen living in Portland, Oregon
(Lord only knows why!) writing reviews of gay film
by day and tearing up the stage by night. You
can read her reviews here as well as at her blog,
QUEER VUE MIRROR.
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