A gay take on The Big Chill or Peter's Friends, Love! Valour! Compassion! began its life as an off-Broadway play in 1994 and went on to become a prize-winning stage hit. The movie version opens things up a bit (well, the eight men at the centre of proceedings get to wander about the grounds of their weekend retreat), but on the whole it's remarkably like the stageversion. This is unsurprising: it was made by the play's director, Joe Mantello, in his movie debut, and features most of the ensemble cast from the theatrical version. Playwright Terrence McNally even contributed the screenplay, and its origins show: - bags of dialogue, one location, a pithy remark at the close of each scene... Happily, he's retained most of his great, catty lines.
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