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From the same school of gay film-making as Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Jim Fall's unassuming romantic comedy pokes gentle fun at such stereotypes as the bitchy drag queen and the disco stud. Christian Campbell could hardly be more cherubic as the struggling musical composer whose chance to make it with a hunky stripper, J P Pitoc, is frustrated by a lack of privacy and a wealth of conflicting advice. Yet it's the much-maligned Tori Spelling's animated performance as a motor-mouthed off-Broadway wannabe that leaves the deepest impression. A huge hit on the festival circuit, this has “date movie” stamped all over it.

Slight but very likeable urban fairytale about the joys and limitations of wish-fulfilment fantasies. A mildly sappy... read more on Time Out