Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss . Tucson Weekly . 09-28-98

Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss

DIRECTED BY: Tommy O'Haver

REVIEWED: 09-28-98

This is gay romantic comedy as whipped non-dairy topping: light, sweet and cloying. Tommy O'Haver wrote and directed this trifle about a struggling photographer who falls for an empty-headed pretty boy who likes to drink beer. The twist is that the pretty might be straight...or is he? Billy (the charming Sean P. Hayes) is darned sure going to find out! This is clearly not the stuff of high drama, and it seems like Screen Kiss goes out of its way to have absolutely no substantive content. There certainly are some funny scenes though, and near the end of the film the script tends to loosen up and dares to take a few digs. Unfortunately, they come too late. This is one of those movies that tells us that whether gay or straight, on some level we're all the same. It's sort if like a very long episode of Ellen, but full of men.

--Richter

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