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Synopsis

How do you spell disaster? D-A-T-I-N-G! The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, a laugh-a-minute romantic comedy based on Eric Orner's wacky comic strip, springs to life following a twentysomething gay boy on a frustrating search for love.

Review

Adapting comic strips into live-action cinema can be a difficult transformation, but The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life Of Ethan Green succeeds where many others fail. Taking the hit underground episodic comic strip and shaping it into a feature-length plot with funny dialogue and comedic situations, the film is a real triumph for screenwriter David Vernon. But the heart of Ethan Green is the wonderfully charming cast. Nebbishly sexy David Monahan is Ethan's ex Leo, an uptight bookseller who is about to marry a pompous gay Republican played with buffoonish charm by Scott Atkinson. Ethan's saucy lesbian roommate Shanola Hampton finds love with wacko real estate agent Rebecca Lowman. All the while Ethan seeks romantic advice from his energetic mother (the criminally underused Meredith Baxter) and the wise couple of lovers known affectionately as "The Hat Sisters," played by well-known character actors Joel Brooks and Richard Riehle. But this would all mean nothing if the twentysomething Ethan weren't so damn lovable. Daniel Letterle (the straight, guitar-playing heartbreaker from Camp) captures the confusion, intelligence, tenderness and sincere goofiness of Eric Orner's creation Ethan Green.

By turns maddeningly obtuse and then downright sexy, Letterle will have you sighing with exasperation and then swooning like you had a childish crush. Kitschy and fun, Ethan Green is a sure bet for a good time - and a film that might just make your own love life actually look easy.

-- Michael McGonigle

Keywords

Comedy, Friendship, Gay Male, GLBT Creators/Performers, Relationships, Romance

Genres

Comedy, Gay Male, Romance

Customer Reviews

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TaurenLover wrote on 12/19/2007:

Great cast but Camp was suprising better plot laid out then this film. Id rather see Daniel Letterle in Camp then this movie but least he didn't shave his chest for this film he's still scrumptious!

Unfabulous movie

screenjims wrote on 01/11/2007:

Dry, weak and stupid was the best adjectives I could come up with to describe this movie...ok, cute guys, nude butts are in here, but the movie has no real direction! I love the comic but I think Eric Orner took the money and ran...away from the studio while this was in production. Pointless.

HERE HERE Duane!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chicago Viewer wrote on 10/29/2006:

Duane, your review was right on the money! As a fan of the comic strip, I was very disappointed by what ended up on the screen. I'm sure the movie was meant to be light and funny, however it missed it's mark with it's presentation. The movie ended up reinforcing questionable arch types of gay men. The result was stupid movie.

Wrong. WRONG. WRONG!

Duane Fletcher wrote on 10/20/2006:

The insightful and talented ERIC ORNER was misled when he allowed his work to be twisted and abused in this "lite" travesty.
The West Hollywood/Silver Lake triumvirate of TOD ABRAMS, GEORGE BAMBER and DAVID VERNON were exactly the wrong people to realize this material. They are precisely the men whom the comic strip so accurately satirizes.
They are deeply shallow, and it shows in every smarmy scene.
The aspects of gay dating which so charmingly befuddle Mr. Orner are overlooked. The cute-boy body culture is raised to a religion.
If you want proof of this, all you need do is listen to the commentary track. You’ll hear these guys getting it wrong, on purpose. They ooh, they aah, they ooze cupidity.
Good for them for getting a gay movie made and distributed, but ETHAN GREEN deserves better treatment.

Mixed feelings

catfag (james.fowler14@yahoo.com) wrote on 10/19/2006:

The cast was really good, but I just couldn't get into the story. There was potental there, but it was never realized.

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