Contents:
- FIRE ISLAND REVIEW – BREEZY GAY SP ON PRI AND PREJUDICE FAILS TO IGNE
- 'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
FIRE ISLAND REVIEW – BREEZY GAY SP ON PRI AND PREJUDICE FAILS TO IGNE
Directed by Andrew Ahn, Fire Island follows a group of gay men spendg a week at the queer hotspot off the ast of Long Island, New York.
While givg Pri and Prejudice a morn, gay update, the romantic edy still manag to rema remarkably fahful to s source material. Gays Space. Gay, thirtysomethg and, his words, “termally alone, Howie (Bowen Yang) has based all his th far unrealised ials of romance on the heterosexual romantic edi he grew up watchg on screen: oppos attractg, meetg cute and makg mad dash for each other at the airport.
“Sh like that don’t happen real life, ” unsels his bt iend Noah (Joel Kim Booster), though ’s not as if Howie needs remdg – he jt wants “the rom stuff” Ahn’s sunny gay buddy movie Fire Island negotiat that fundamental nflict s characters while also fallg prey to as a film.
'FIRE ISLAND' TRAILER: 'PRI AND PREJUDICE' GO GAY WH JOEL KIM BOOSTER, BOWEN YANG
Mappg nventnally chey romantic edy beats on to ls Hollywood-dictated homosexual terra, also aims to liver some tough tths about the morn gay datg scene between the sweetened sunset smooch and all’s-well-that-ends-well optimism of sundry past vehicl for Sandra Bullock or Meg Ryan.