Sean is gay, but the movie isn’t about that - in fact, it’s the rare example of a film about a gay man that treats homosexuality as a normal, non-crisis situation, and proceeds from the assumption that everyone’s all right with it. The two would-be friends in this Unlikely Friendship movie are Sean (Matt Bomer), a white, newly single, painfully lonely TV weatherman, and Ernesto (Alejandro Patiño), the Latino immigrant he hires to help paint his home. The problem is, by centering the experience of a wealthy white gay man, it’s simultaneously doing something pretty great for LGBT representation, and selling its Latino characters short.
The film, from director John Butler, had its world premiere at TIFF 2018, and it’s clear that it wants to be an uplifting story about friendship in America that crosses language barriers and walks of life.
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