Chuck & Buck is the movie I love so much than when Central Cinema asked me what movie I wanted to show as part of their “Favorites” series, I said Chuck & Buck.*
As I wrote to a friend who’s never seen the film:
It’s a dark, dark comedy of a developmentally arrested homosexual stalker man-child. Even more upsetting, it’s about a developmentally arrested homosexual stalker man-child who WRITES A PLAY about his stalkery love for his childhood wank-buddy and prominently stages it with a semi-professional theater company in the former wank buddy’s hometown. It’s about love, and stalking, and squirming, and it’s the itchiest film about Letting Go of Childish Things ever made.
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*—I also mentioned The Last Picture Show (which was too recently screened at SAM for CC to get the rights) and GoodFellas (which screened recently at CC without my involvement). So Chuck & Buck won.
Oooh, three good choices. Makes me wonder what else is on your list…
Chuck & Buck is such an odd movie you wonder how it ever got made. I’m glad it did.
The Last Picture Show is probably the closest thing to a perfect movie I can think of. So incredible. Chuck and Buck is also fantastic but so hard to watch.