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Gray Matters

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Gray Matters

PG-13

Released Feb 23, 2007

1h 36m

Romance

Comedy

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Sam (Tom Cavanagh) and Gray (Heather Graham) are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a love of 1940s movies and dancing, and when they meet Charlie (Bridget Moynahan), they have something else in common: They both fall in love with her. Sam must deal with unexpected feelings of jealousy, while Gray struggles to come to terms with her sexual orientation.

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Critics Consensus

Gray Matters tries emulating Hollywood screwball classics, but the rapid fire dialogue and witticisms comes off only as a contrived gimmick.

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Graham carries this for a while, but Kramer spends entirely too much time weakly satirizing Graham's job at an advertising agency, where Molly Shannon's a kvetching coworker.

Dec 3, 2007

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

In its genre writer-director Sue Kramer's film sets a new record for bright shining peepers and dimply smirks. It's enough to kill Buster Keaton's entire family.

Rated: 1/4

Jun 30, 2007

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Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

The writing isn't sharp enough for the film to work as comedy, nor are the characters real enough for the audience to connect emotionally.

Rated: 1.5/4

Mar 9, 2007

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Dave White

Movies.com

Rated: 1/5

Apr 4, 2011

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Heather Huntington

ReelzChannel.com

Pretty quickly it disintegrates into a mishmash of character caricatures competing for airtime in which to spit out overly quirky dialogue in predictable set-ups.

Rated: 4/10

Aug 23, 2008

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Brandon Fibbs

BrandonFibbs.com

While the light and whimsical comic timing of the leads carry the film far, even they cannot blind us to Gray Matters' many shortcomings.

Rated: 4/11

Feb 28, 2008

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Gnr E

Movie night with my friends watching this movie was a really good memories now

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/18/24

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michael t

I like Heather Graham so I enjoyed watching her for an hour and a half. She had a likeable character. The relationship with the brother was a little hard to take. The story was enjoyable enough. I think the critics were overly harsh.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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corkball

Heather Graham is... gay? Didn't buy the character. This movie is dumb in all the ways rom-coms are dumb, and then pile on that the gay stuff that doesn't really ring true. Top it off with WAY too much exploitative shots of the wife character in frilly underwear. They could have either pulled back on that, or leaned in to it and just made it softcore.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

A heartwarming comedy about the realisation of ones sexuality as an adult.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

A humble little chick flick comedy that benefits from its simplistic tones and charming cast, even if its entire "fin your own identity" subtext is never deeply explored, and the humor is, oftentimes, cliché.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Audience Member

Neither good nor bad. Just kinda meh.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Synopsis

Sam (Tom Cavanagh) and Gray (Heather Graham) are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a love of 1940s movies and dancing, and when they meet Charlie (Bridget Moynahan), they have something else in common: They both fall in love with her. Sam must deal with unexpected feelings of jealousy, while Gray struggles to come to terms with her sexual orientation.

Director: Sue Kramer
Producer: Bob Yari, John J. Hermansen, Jill Footlick, Sue Kramer
Screenwriter: Sue Kramer
Distributor: Yari Film Group
Production Co: El Camino Pictures, Bob Yari Productions, Archer Entertainment
Rating: PG-13 (Some Mature Thematic Material|Sexual Content|Language)
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 23, 2007, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 11, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $59.6K
Runtime: 1h 36m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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