Fresh
Fast-moving and very funny.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Overview
A midwestern teacher questions his sexuality after a former student makes a comment about him at the Academy Awards.
Director and cast
- Frank Oz Director
- Kevin Kline as Howard Brackett
- Joan Cusack as Emily Montgomery
- Tom Selleck as Peter Malloy
- Matt Dillon as Cameron Drake
- Debbie Reynolds as Berniece Brackett
- Wilford Brimley as Frank Brackett
- Bob Newhart as Tom Halliwell
- Gregory Jbara as Walter Brackett
- Shalom Harlow as Sonya
- Shawn Hatosy as Jack
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
71%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Actually, the funniest parts of the movie are excerpts from the film that Cameron is originally nominated for.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Rotten
Basically a one-joke farce that plays around with a once-delicate subject that by now is a mainstay even on TV.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Fresh
The Hollywood stuff at the beginning with Glenn Close as an Oscar presenter and Matt Dillon as a puffed-up star on the rise is as funny and as nasty as anything in Libby Gelman-Waxner's columns.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten
Never amounts to more than a thin sketch.
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
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