Drawing on their sitcom chops, Graham and Cavanagh cover for their cloth-eared dialogue with trumped-up camaraderie, pushing and pulling at each other like toddlers in playgroup.
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02/22/07
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Gray Matters (2007)
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Reviews Counted:63
Fresh:5
Rotten:58
Average Rating:3.8/10
Consensus: The rapid fire dialogue and witticisms comes off only as a contrived gimmick.
Theatrical Release:Feb 23, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Gray (Heather Graham) and Sam (Thomas Cavanagh) are inseparable. They live together, take ballroom dancing classes, and jog in the park together. They'd make a very attractive couple were it not... [More]
Starring: Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh, Saffron Burrows, Sissy Spacek
Director: Sue Kramer
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Reviews for Gray Matters
Top CriticGraham easily roller-skates off with this showcase-driven role.
02/20/07
Forgettable coming-out comedy for older teens.
11/01/07
First-time director Sue Kramer allows [Graham] to mug her way through every scene. You find yourself constantly wanting to cry out: 'Heather, please, a little less!'
03/09/07
Heather Graham's nonstop perky chattering is more annoying than cute in [this] uneven, unrealistic romantic comedy about a rather bizarre love triangle.
02/25/07
What matters here is Kramer's unrealizable determination to be original with a romantic comedy two-fer.
02/20/07
Superficial comedy about the coming-out of a young woman.
03/06/07
If you've ever stared into the Stepford-blank visage of a beauty-pageant competitor--with its frozen, unyielding smile--you may have some idea of what to expect.
02/23/07
Dull, contrived, obvious, and at 96 minutes, seemingly endless.
02/20/07
Sue Kramer is clearly out to shake up the boring old boy-meets-girl formula, but her movie is so filled with preposterous coincidence and ridiculous clunky plot machinations that it's impossible to ignore them and focus on the equally contrived story.
02/23/07
It's so awful that it enters that weird realm in which it becomes actively annoying. The moviegoer sits there, hoping the characters will be tortured and die horrible deaths.
03/08/07
Top CriticThis movie falls into the gray area between good and just okay.
03/09/07
[Heather Graham's] never looked better, despite the unflattering digital video format, which makes it all the more tragic that she's not appearing in better material.
03/09/07
Is she or isn't she? Only her screenwriter knows for sure.
02/26/07
Never have I ever wanted to climb into the screen and kill every single character as much as I did with this movie.
02/22/07
The movie’s light, airy tone comes to a screeching halt in certain scenes that are excessively sentimental, melodramatic and preachy.
02/25/07
While the light and whimsical comic timing of the leads carry the film far, even they cannot blind us to Gray Matters' many shortcomings.
02/28/08
Gray Matters feels dated: Gray's self-identity confusion is less "adorable" than annoying, and both she and Charlie appear exceptionally clueless about what's going on.
03/17/07
Graham makes the coming-out dithering bearable, but not before she has jumped through hoops of contrivance.
02/28/07
Top CriticThe cast flaps and flounders their way through this mess without a compass. That includes Sissy Spacek as the world's worst shrink, and an extra-annoying Molly Shannon as Gray's co-worker at possibly the fakest ad agency ever committed to film.
02/23/07
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