Looking back at 1997’s "In & Out"

I love this movie! I remember watching it in a movie theater with a majority gay crowd. The “little gay bar on the prairie” line got a huge laugh. Also, the raised leg during the kiss got a big whoop from the gays. Today, the movie would be canceled for using straight actors, being too white, and being stereotypical.

"Is everybody gay?"

Joan Cusack made this movie for me.

It was all innocent fun for its time. The kiss between Kline and Selleck was divine.

Great movie and R1 is correct, people are psychotic now.

- Peter Malloy: “One day I just clicked. I said: ‘Mom, dad, Sparky, I'm gay.’” - Howard Brackett: “So what happened?” - Peter Malloy: “My mom cried, for exactly 10 seconds, my boss said: ‘Who cares?’, and my dad said: ‘But you're so tall.’”

[quote] Here, I'll give you your headline. Howard Brackett is a big homo-queer-merry-sissy man. He just came out at his big church wedding. Martha Stewart is furious.

Howard Brackett became a spare prick at a wedding.

I need the rewatch this.

Yeah - this was a big turning point for gay acceptance. It's also a fun movie.

I wish I could see Joan Cusack in more things - I miss her so much. A unique talent and incredibly under-used. Although - I think she has 2 oscar nominations, right? Working Girl and this movie?

Fuck Barbra Streisand! And you!

Love this movie. Cusack is hilarious.

"HETEROSEXUAL CODE RED!"

Eat something, I'm begging you! You look like a swizzle stick.

Great movie.

The How to be a Man tape is funny.

Thank you, OP! I loved this movie the first (and second) time around. It's time for a third. Selleck was beautiful!

R13 I doubly agree with everything ⬆️ said. Ditto.

Love this film too, its fun, sweet and has a happy ending, and Kevin Kline was very hot in this

Howard Brackett: Tom, do I look like a homosexual?

Tom Halliwell: Would you walk for me?

WHET Paul Rudnick's talent?

I thought it was really funny but I feel like the movie isn't really talked about that much anymore.

The actor who played Kevin's brother was hot.

Can see why Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck like moustaches. They both have thin upper lips.

[quote]Released by Paramount Pictures, it’s hard to understate what a big deal the film was for its time.

Oh, dear.

Kline comes across as more asexual than straight but believable as an artsy type.

I really loved this movie. The cast were all great and it was fun and funny and very gay friendly/supportive for the time. I must watch it again.

Kevin Kline is fabulous. I loved the movie when it was released.

Produced by Aaron Spelling which probably explains why there are so many people in it from TV shows. He got 'em cheap.

They WERE cheap!

That bowl haircut does Lauren Ambrose no favors.

I always want to love this movie more than I do, great as Joan Cusack is in it.

Also -- having a high school graduation days after the Academy Awards? That's just lazy plotting. (Even pickier of me, I guess, but . . . a separate montage for [presumably] each Best Actor candidate is cheating too. Why not just have TO SERVE AND PROTECT nominated for Best Picture and show the montage on that basis?)

R28, I bet you don't get invited to many parties.

The minute I heard about Kevin Kline dumping Patti Lupone, he became a favorite of mine.

"do you know how many times I've had to watch FUNNY LADY!"

The biggest laugh I got from To Serve and Protect was the southern drawl of Dan Hedaya.

[quote]"do you know how many times I've had to watch FUNNY LADY!"

She was UNDER CONTRACT!

I saw it in Indiana (I was on a work trip but had lived there before) so I was happy to see it context, although it was too nice to Indiana.

Very well cast---Selleck and Dillon doing self-parody. Joan Cusask at her best. Debbie Reynolds is just perfect as the mother. Newhart was great in this and probably the nicest take on an ignorant Hoosier one could do. The dialog is filled with great lines and delivery..."I hated the Bridges of Madison County", "She was too for Yentl".

I love that Joan Cusack received an Oscar nomination for this. She’s absolutely hysterical in it. (“Is EVERYBODY GAY?!??!?”)

Kevin Kline deserved a nod too. He is so endearing in this. And I LOVE the “How to be a Real Man” sequence when he breaks out gay at the end.

Years ago I heard this film was based on an incident where Tom Hanks, before he became TOM HANKS, inadvertently (and incorrectly!) outed his high school drama teacher! No idea if that's true.

Hated it.

This movie has a strange tone. At first you believe he is straight and when he is said to be gay you don't want to believe it.

I do think Paul Rudnick is very funny, but he favors punchlines over characters and it's difficult to get past that facile layer to where you can really feel for the characters, empathize with them and see them as human.

Plus Frank Oz is hardly subtle. He was Miss Piggy after all.

That was probably the last time Tom Selleck looked hot before he morphed into Wilfred Brimley.

Hated it then, hate it now. Joan Cusack and Debbie Reynolds' scenes are the only scenes to watch. It's incredibly homophobic. His being gay is predicated on a stereotype, not an attraction to/affection for men. It's upsidedown, and worst of all: Kevin Kline is the star. FUCK THIS MOVIE. AND YOU!

R38, no, you're just strange.

It's one of Kline's better performances. He's rarely been a standout to me in dramatic roles.

"I'm wearing a wedding dress which YOU! PICKED! OUT!"

[quote] Years ago I heard this film was based on an incident where Tom Hanks, before he became TOM HANKS, inadvertently (and incorrectly!) outed his high school drama teacher!

It was when he won the Oscar for Philadelphia, so yes, he was already TOM HANKS.

[quote]Tom Hanks, before he became TOM HANKS, inadvertently (and incorrectly!) outed his high school drama teacher! No idea if that's true.

It was true, but the teacher was gay (and retired). It happened when he won his Oscar for "Philadelphia".,

R42

They love Kevin in Canada.

Kline was great in Dave and A Fish Called Wanda.

R46 / R47 Thank you for the details. I thought I wasn't sure about the Tom Hanks connection.

R49

He was great in Soap Dish a truly fun movie that is now a bit non pc with its T character. A fun look at the soaps .

[quote] He was great in Soap Dish a truly fun movie that is now a bit non pc with its T character.

Translation: Back when the T's weren't humorless frankencunts.

11 years too late to stop my buddy from making a huge mistake.