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It has the virtue to be one of films delighting a part of public for honest perspective about life, dilemmas, relations, loneliness, frustrations, all so familiar in near reality daily life. You recognize situations and crisis and gestures . And this can be a good thing about film.

It is easy to recognize a good fist of cliches . Or not very happy about no revelations, courageous solutions or real provocative options. So, easy to define it as boring.

But it is only a film about friendship . No ambitions of brave demonstrations, often bitter taste of not far by you situations, warm and , yes, a film in which older teens are just present.

Maybe not exactly a slice of lif but a faithful reflection of it.

Although the synopsis describes this film as being about a gay man's best girlfriend getting pregnant with his baby, the main plot actually revolves around a lurid and obsessive relationship with a handsome stranger online. This film runs at an easy pace, and although definitely mostly centered around the main protagonist (who's very easy on the eyes, which helps) it also gives sufficient scope to the events happening to the friends around him. All their stories are nicely tied in.

Although she doesn't appear on the list of actors on this film's IMDb page, the famous Spanish actress, Carmen Maura, makes a cameo in it. She is particularly known to an international audience for her roles in Pedro Almodovar movies. She definitely adds something very special.

A must see! It's true that it is sweet and funny but also very real and tough. It shows us how loneliness can lead us to make terrible mistakes.

I don't think that this film is full of clichés, on the contrary, it shows us the way things could happen in our nowadays, giving us the opportunity of thinking about the problems we could find in a society more complex and connected than ever.

At the same time, I enjoyed the sense of humor of some of the characters and the way they live their friendship. This friendship could be closer to a extended family concept.

From other reviews online, I'd gotten the impression that this might not be just another stale gay dramedy full of stale gay dramedy clichés... but five minutes in, one lead coyly asks the other, "When's the last time you got laid? 'cause you're really tense right now!" I hit eject, put the DVD back in its case, and tossed it in the box with tired old gay movies from the horrible old days when that's all we had.

With people like Alan Brown, Mark Thiedeman and Joseph Graham making intelligent, NON-clichéd gay movies -- about and for adults, not bitchy, mentally challenged, self-obsessed, cocaine-snorting, thirtysomething (or older) adolescents -- there's no excuse to keep recycling the same old garbage. Besides, one minute earlier the same character had said, "... or something equally as stupid." The writer gets old clichés just right, but writing plain English correctly evidently is beyond him. I almost ejected it then, but when the "got laid" line came fast on its heels, and in the same smug, whiny voice, it sealed this movie's fate for me.

Well written, realistic view of the modern gay male experience, featuring the almost always present hetero-female friends. Some "straight" men do not want to understand or take responsibility for the actions, and that is perfectly normal, too. The actors excel in their roles and the film moves along at a good pace. Kudos for a very well made movie.