
Two young couples in New York-one black and gay, one white and heterosexual-find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual identity, and redefine monogamy.... (Full plot summary below)
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Two young couples in New York-one black and gay, one white and heterosexual-find their lives intertwined as they create new relationship norms, explore sexual identity, and redefine monogamy.
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| San Jose Mercury NewsRandy MyersSexy and soapy, this modern-day romance about sexually adventurous couples mixing things up is a gem. |
| AfterElton.comBrian JuergensIt may have the trappings of your everyday NYC indie, but it stands apart for exploring love and lust in a world where sexuality and race aren't the sources of the drama. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinAside from a few missing transitional beats and one too many coincidental encounters, the picture's fluid, zigzagging sexuality and emotional high-diving prove largely credible and diverting. |
| The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberEvans directs energetically, and the personable actors help to keep us involved, but the picture skims stubbornly along the surface. |
| VarietyAndrew BarkerFull of warmth and refreshingly matter-of-fact sexuality, the film has its heart in the right place, yet it’s ultimately a bit blander than its subject matter ought to demand, and its chamber-piece intimacy and pileup of coincidences scan particularly awkwardly given its convincingly wide-open depiction of New York. |
| Slant MagazineBill WeberKen Urban, adapting his own play, fumbles at injections of urban, and decidedly not urbane, levity, in addition to telegraphing entire subplots. |
| Time OutDavid FearKudos to Evans for making up for the galling lack of gay African-American screen representation while delivering hot-body eroticism, but reducing complex relationship issues to a typical indie-flick blatherathon—complete with performances of varying quality and stilted dialogue—isn’t helping anyone. |
| Village VoiceErnest HardyThe cast—and Evans's deft hand with them—makes it worth checking out. |
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe actors are so relaxed and personable that the film’s occasional glibness — and its over-reliance on coincidence to further the cross-pollinating narrative — is easy to let slide. |
| New York PostFarran Smith NehmeA movie about bisexuals sounds fresh and fun on paper, but a sensitive acoustic song under the opening credits shows exactly where The Happy Sad is going. Deadly earnestness and sex don’t mix well at the movies. |