Adam & Steve

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Movie
German title Adam & Steve
Original title Adam & Steve
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Craig Chester
script Craig Chester
production George Bendele ,
Kirkland Tibbels
music Roddy Bottum
camera Carl Bartels,
Brian Pryzpek
cut Phyllis Housen
occupation

Adam & Steve is an American feature film of director Craig Chester from the year of 2005.

action

One night in 1987, the young man Adam met the handsome Steve in a bar, where Steve appeared as a dancer in the group Dazzle Dancers . After a flirtation, they both go to Adam's apartment, where Steve offers Adam cocaine in bed . The cocaine is mixed with a baby laxative , which Steve is not aware of. After taking it, Steve had diarrhea in front of Adam. Humiliated by this situation, Steve flees Adam's apartment.

17 years later, the film starts again and shows how Adam now works as a tourist guide in New York City . Steve has since become a successful psychiatrist . When Steve has his injured dog treated in a clinic, they both meet again by chance; but neither of them remember their disastrous date many years ago. A relationship develops between the two and they get to know Steve and Adam's respective families. Rhonda and Michael, Adam and Steve's best friends, are initially suspicious and also hostile to each other, but soon begin a relationship as well.

Steve's feelings for Adam grow stronger and eventually he tells Michael and Rhonda that he plans to propose to Adam. But when Adam reveals to Steve on the Brooklyn Bridge that his drug abuse, as well as his relationship problems, can be traced back to a catastrophic affair with an incontinent dancer in 1987, Steve immediately realizes who Adam is and ends the relationship abruptly, as he is shocked and for himself Feels responsible for Adam's problems.

Adam falls into grief until Rhonda learns the truth about Steve's past from Michael. Adam gets angry and confronts Steve, who apologizes but still feels guilty about Adam's troubled life.

Adam is still upset and ready to give up the relationship, but Steve humbly apologizes and shows his love for Adam through the song Something Good . Adam softens and accepts Steve's proposal. The film ends with Adam and Steve getting married in the presence of their friends and families.

Reviews

On Rotten Tomatoes , Adam & Steve received a 55% rating based on 38 reviews. The consensus is: "Gross-out humor and true love make a clumsy mix in this wooden romance."

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on March 30, 2006 that the film had an underlying story and some funny ideas, but that he needed a better director or a "more ruthless" editor. Ebert praised certain scenes, such as Adam and Steve's confrontation at a disco that was both "bizarre" and "strangely funny," but criticized others as being so "awkward" that any dramatic effect would be "destroyed". Ebert also said that a shortening of about 15 minutes would have done the film good.

Cinema says: “From the emotional chaos of the two New Yorkers, director and Adam actor Craig Chester created a cryptically life-affirming film: like Woody Allen who meets the Farrellys for a threesome, he mixes virtuoso cheerful and painful, touching and hilarious scenes to a plea for love. "

The lexicon of the international film wrote: "A touching and at the same time self-deprecating love comedy with convincing actors and witty dialogues, which deals with the subject of homosexuality very aggressively, where it cleverly and ironically integrates the homophobia of those around you into the plot."

background

The title is an allusion to the conservative Christian phrase "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" (English for: God made Adam and Eve and not Adam and Steve), which is directed against gay rights.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Adam & Steve . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2007 (PDF; test number: 109 647 DVD).
  2. ↑ Adam & Steve on Rotten Tomatoes
  3. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  4. ^ Film review , Cinema
  5. ↑ Adam & Steve. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 3, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ^ Clarke, Victoria (September – October 2001). "What about the children? Arguments against lesbian and gay parenting," Women's Studies International Forums 24 (5): 555-570.