Chuck and Buck and Non-fatal Attraction by Bruce Cantwell Buck (Mike White) hasn't changed much since his best friend Chuck (Chris Weitz) moved away when they were adolescents. So when Buck's mom's funeral brings them back together, Buck tries to pick up their relationship where it left off. This isn't easy because Chuck (now Charles) grew up, got a job with a major record company in Los Angeles, and got married. It's easy to picture Buck cashing in his mother's life insurance and pursuing his childhood buddy to the west coast: seems as good a plan as any. Neither Charles nor his wife want to be tough on him. After all, the kids were best friends and it's tough losing a mom. But as Buck's pleas for a playmate grow progressively disruptive and he can't take a hint, the unpleasant confrontation becomes inevitable. While patiently stalking Charles, Buck waits across the street from his buddy's office building in front of the home for The Aeternus Players Ensemble, a community theater. Buck hires the woman who works the box office, Beverly Franco (the hilariously deadpan Lupe Ontiveros), to direct the play he decides to write about his childhood: "Hank and Frank." She takes the job seriously, undaunted by a ludicrous script. Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn meet the Wicked Witch of the West who enchants Huck into abandoning his best friend. Beverly's second challenge is Sam (Paul Weitz), a bumblingly inept "actor" wannabe whom Buck insists upon casting because of his physical resemblance to Charles. Though the movie is more successful in its evocation of childhood same sex bonding than the suggestion that such experiences foster latent homo or bisexuality tendencies, the well drawn characters more than overcome the discontinuities, which are few and far between. Chuck and Buck's appeal should extend far beyond gay audiences.	Warning: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/bruce20/public_html/myenvoy/movies/reviews/chuck_buck.php3 on line 33 Warning: include(http://myenvoy.com/movies/side.php3) [function.include]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/bruce20/public_html/myenvoy/movies/reviews/chuck_buck.php3 on line 33 Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://myenvoy.com/movies/side.php3' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php') in /home/bruce20/public_html/myenvoy/movies/reviews/chuck_buck.php3 on line 33
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