A group of queer best friends gather in Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter, but a sudden change of events might make this their last summer in gay paradise.A group of queer best friends gather in Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter, but a sudden change of events might make this their last summer in gay paradise.A group of queer best friends gather in Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter, but a sudden change of events might make this their last summer in gay paradise.
- Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys
- 7 wins & 17 nominations total
Tomas Matos
- Keegan
- (as Tomás Matos)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaWas first developed as a series titled "Trip" for the now-defunct streaming television network Quibi.
- GoofsOn Sunday, Will is seen eating an ice cream cone in Cherry Grove and ducking into the Ice Palace. It's implied that Noah is there soon after having left his Pines house. Cherry Grove is a distance from the Pines, and an earlier scene also mentions that the journey is either by water taxi or a long way by foot.
- Crazy creditsAt the beginning, several characters from the film sing the Searchlight Pictures theme over the logo's own theme.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Big Gay Fiction Podcast: Ep 394: Dante's Cove Recap - Season 3, Episode 2 (2022)
- SoundtracksHome
Written and Performed by Ruu Campbell
Courtesy of CAPP Records Inc. & Gravelpit Music
Featured review
A cliche-riddled journey towards a warm heart
I struggled with the first hour. It amped up the current-day gay cliches to extreme proportions. The dialogue was solely based around gay men, with gay personalities, talking about being gay, and discussing gay issues which left no space for anything else. On top of that you've got the lead character narrating throughout the entire movie about how we as the audience should feel about gay life. There was a lot of telling not showing.
However, in the moments when the plot positioned the social commentary to the background and had a chance to actually explore gay issues by seeing these men in various situations, as superficial as the exploration may have been, ultimately led to a well-meaning warm-hearted place. There were moments of genuine insight, and occasional laugh out loud moments peppered throughout, and Margaret Cho will never not be a delight to watch.
However the outcome felt a little undercooked and reliant on stereotyped one liners that often didn't land and an idea of what a gay screenwriter thinks what gay men want to see. I would have loved a high comedy version of the HBO TV series 'Looking' type experience where no cliches are allowed and all characters have depth and dimension. This exploration felt a little cynical, mean and lazy in parts.
However, in the moments when the plot positioned the social commentary to the background and had a chance to actually explore gay issues by seeing these men in various situations, as superficial as the exploration may have been, ultimately led to a well-meaning warm-hearted place. There were moments of genuine insight, and occasional laugh out loud moments peppered throughout, and Margaret Cho will never not be a delight to watch.
However the outcome felt a little undercooked and reliant on stereotyped one liners that often didn't land and an idea of what a gay screenwriter thinks what gay men want to see. I would have loved a high comedy version of the HBO TV series 'Looking' type experience where no cliches are allowed and all characters have depth and dimension. This exploration felt a little cynical, mean and lazy in parts.
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- Jun 11, 2022
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- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.66 : 1
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