To be clear, I am myself a gay woman, so I'm not speaking from ignorance or bias. This is a terrible movie. Why Julianne Moore took this role is a great mystery. Her co-star looks as though she should be her daughter, and the chemistry between them is zero. It seemed impossible to me that these two women could fall in love, The "romance" is over in an almost nonverbal twinkle, and the rest of the plot seems like a remake of the old film "Love Story," with some activism thrown in to give it value. I just kept watching in vain hope of some worthy surprise, but there was none. Interestingly, the attempt to avoid stereotypes is bungled by the unnecessary Jewish identity bestowed on one of the characters, who quickly becomes a caricature. I do watch a lot of gay movies and try to keep up with the latest releases, but this one made me weep, but not the way it was meant to.
