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In & Out

1997

Frank Oz

Kevin Kline, Matt Dillon, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck ...

5.9

15,799

Comedy Life is sweet for high-school English teacher and sports coach Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline); he's still living where he grew up, he has a good relationship with his father (Wilford Brimley) and mother (Debbie Reynolds), he's respected by his community, and he's about to marry Emily (Joan Cusack), his fiancée of three years. Fearing she was about to become an old maid, Emily has shed 75 pounds for the upcoming nuptials. But first, the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"In a year when good comedies seem as hard to make as ever, In and Out is one of the best (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"A truly funny, sophisticated, compassionate, mainstream Hollywood comedy"
		Todd McCarthy Variety	"A one-joke farce that plays around with a once-delicate subject (...) Nearly every gag is pitched and underlined in the most obvious way"
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	'''In and Out' does deliver laughs and skewer a few stereotypes, thanks to extremely sly wit and a fine cast"
		James Berardinelli ReelViews	"This is a rare, "feel good" motion picture that doesn't insult our intelligence"
		Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"May provide a service by making gay issues innocuous and funny and more acceptable to a broader audience, but Rudnick's play-it-safe script and Frank Oz's antiseptic direction manage instead to trivialize the subject."
		Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"'In & Out' goes out of its way to be politically incorrect, yet manages to simultaneously flaunt and flout gay stereotypes"
		Darren Bignell Empire	"Far too light and reliant on the Hollywood romantic clich_ to explore its topic intelligently"
		Maria Santonja AV Club	"Screenwriter Paul Rudnick could be the closest thing 1990s Hollywood has to Preston Sturges (...) it's a welcome thing. His In & Out is a smoothly paced, often wildly funny tale"

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