Jeffrey (1995)

User Rating:

6.1/10   

Director:

Christopher Ashley

Writers (WGA):

Paul Rudnick (play)
Paul Rudnick (screenplay)

Release Date:

18 August 1995 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Tagline:

Love is an adventure when one of you is sure... and the other is positive.

Plot:

Jeffery, a young gay man in New York, decides that sex is too much and decided to become celibate. He...

Plot Keywords:

Gay | Gay Kiss | Breaking The Fourth Wall | Gay Friend | Homosexual

Awards:

1 win & 4 nominations

Cast

Steven Weber	...	Jeffrey
Peter Jaconson	...	Man #1
Tom Cayler	...	Man #2
David Thornton	...	Man #3
Lee Mark Nelson	...	Crying Guy
John Ganun	...	Tourist
Michael T. Weiss	...	Steve Howard
Joe Dain	...	Movie Theatre Guy #1 (as Joseph Dain)
Jeffrey Ross	...	Movie Theatre Guy #2
Irma St. Paule	...	Mother Teresa
Patrick Stewart	...	Sterling
Nicky Paraiso	...	Salesman
K. Todd Freeman	...	Barney's Waiter
Robert Klein	...	Skip Winkley
Patti Ann O'Connell	...	Cheryl, the Showgirl

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexuality and language.

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

Iceland:12 | Australia:M | France:U | Germany:16 | Spain:13 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R | Portugal:M/12 (re-rating) | Portugal:M/16

Filming Locations:

Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Company:

The Booking Office

Trivia:

Patrick Stewart was reading the script for this film while Star Trek: Generations (1994) was in production. He found it so sad that he used it to produce the appropriate feelings necessary for weeping during the scene where he finds out that his family back on earth has perished in a fire.

Goofs:

Continuity: Steve's arm tattoo disappears.

Quotes:

Jeffrey: Dad, I am not going to have phone sex with you and mom!

Movie Connections:

References Ben-Hur (1959)

It has some insightful things to say, but it's too silly...

Almost a breakthrough for queer cinema: a homosexual cater-waiter in New York City swears off sex in the AIDS-era but soon finds himself falling for a hunk who is HIV positive. Paul Rudnick adapted his own play for the screen, allowing his gay characters to act upon their desires and not just whine about them (which is what cramped the film-version of "Torch Song Trilogy"). Yet, the tone of the picture wavers as if the filmmakers weren't sure whether they were doing a fanciful comedy, a satire, a tragi-comedy with pathos, a revue, or a love story in the more traditional sense. The central leads (Steven Weber and Michael T. Weiss) are handsome and charming, but the intrusive star-cameos (directed broadly for big laughs) do not work. A semi-serious movie about tentative gay love can always stand a sense of humor (self-effacing or otherwise), but hamming and camping gets old pretty fast. ** from ****