In & Out

In & Out ()

 
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Upon winning an Academy Award, actor Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon) honors his high school teacher, Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline), who he announces, before millions of viewers, is gay. This comes as news to Brackett's parents (Wilford Brimley, Debbie Reynolds), his principal (Bob Newhart) and especially his fiancée (Joan Cusack). As a media blitz descends upon on his small Indiana town, Brackett attempts to convince everyone that he's your average straight American male.

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4.2
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4.5(2)
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4.5(2)
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4.5(2)
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3.5(2)
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Great Fun
(Updated: January 04, 2025)
Overall rating
 
5.0
Entertainment Factor
 
5.0
Story
 
5.0
Actors Performance
 
5.0
Cinematography
 
5.0
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5.0
Kevin Kline sweetly plays a teacher trying to fight the truth of his sexuality
Tom Selleck is perfect as the reporter who helps him come to terms with who he is- Selleck is funny and sweet in a role that is unusual for hin
Joan Cusack is hilarious as is Debbie Reynolds
The movie is sweet and funny with perfectly cast actors 
A really fun time!



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Funny movie about coming out of the closet
(Updated: January 04, 2025)
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3.4
Entertainment Factor
 
4.0
Story
 
4.0
Actors Performance
 
4.0
Cinematography
 
2.0
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3.0
Kevin Kline's comic turn highlights this winning farce about a straitlaced teacher whose world is shattered when a former student refers to him as gay on TV. The teacher is forced to re-examine his sexuality while fending off his worried bride-to-be (Joan Cusack) and a gay reporter (Tom Selleck). Matt Dillon, Debbie Reynolds, Wilford Brimley Bob Newhart.
It's not about sex -- it's about Barbra and Bette and the Village People: That's the lesson of this cheerful, mainstream comedy about tabloid TV, Hollywood sophistry and family values that finally gets discussion about gay people out of the bedroom and into the record store, where it belongs. Popular small-town English teacher Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline) is outed on TV by vacuous former pupil Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon), who's just received an Oscar for playing a highly decorated gay soldier run out of the military for having a tape of BEACHES in his locker. No one is more surprised than Howard himself, unless it's his former fat-girl fiancee Emily (Joan Cusack), who's just dieted herself into the world's most frou frou wedding dress. With the nuptials less than a week away, Howard is hounded by tabloid journalists -- "Should gays handle produce?" they bray, as he runs for cover -- and tormented by well-meaning gestures of support: Did his buddies have to arrange the bachelor party around Barbra Streisand movies? Forget the inevitable carping and give credit where credit is due: Any movie that gets a laugh out of Debbie Reynolds as the Midwestern mom who claims she needs a wedding because "it's like heroin," and features a long kiss between Kline and Tom Selleck (cast to absolute perfection as a gay tabloid-TV reporter) is OK. And the sequence in which Kline attempts to learn the secrets of manliness from a set of instructional tapes gruffly titled "Be a Man" ("Real men don't dance. Ever.") is really funny.  Fun movie to watch with some really funny scenes.   

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