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.
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03/08/07
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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 CriticThe plot sputters from one unconvincing scene to the next until Kramer just gives up on telling a story and Gray Matters somehow morphs into The Complete Idiot's Guide to Coming Out of the Closet.
03/08/07
Gray's identity issues -- presumably the movie's main focus -- share time with too many subsidiary scenes that seem (rightly or wrongly) to have been written for as many actor-friends of the filmmakers as possible.
03/08/07
Top CriticEverybody talks so fast that you'd swear you were hearing snappy banter. You aren't. Not really.
03/08/07
One of those completely disposable and clumsy attempts to make a gay romantic comedy that constantly slips on its own good intentions.
03/08/07
If aliens were to take this kind of behavior and dialogue as an example of normal interaction of the species, we'd all be in big, big trouble.
03/08/07
So utterly synthetic that though set in New York, it might as well be happening on another planet...despite the title, Gray doesn't matter at all.
03/08/07
Will make viewers who aren't Cosmo subscribers want to blow their brains out.
03/08/07
This "Gray" could have used more color.
03/07/07
Some unlikely scenes but it kept me entertained enough to make it enjoyable.
03/06/07
Superficial comedy about the coming-out of a young woman.
03/06/07
This movie is dopey.
03/05/07
Top CriticGray Matters is trying so hard to be charming and screwball (not to mention politically correct) that it trips all over itself.
03/03/07
Attempts to do Woody Allen by way of Nora Ephron, but romantic comedies in that vein are only as good as their banter, and Gray Matters' banter is conspicuously sub-par.
03/03/07
This is a chick flick, one of the chickiest chick flicks of the decade so far.
03/03/07
In cheerfully embracing the sitcom's limitations, Kramer resigns her film to a sort of amiable mediocrity.
03/01/07
[Heather Graham] needs something to counteract her wholesomeness. In Gray Matters -- her name is Gray, get it? -- what you see is what you get. The fact that her character 'discovers' she is gay is as unbelievable as it is contrived.
03/01/07
The many awkward and/or inexplicable attempts at whimsy in Gray Matters are too numerous to cite.
03/01/07
Another coming-out flop.
02/28/07
Top CriticGraham makes the coming-out dithering bearable, but not before she has jumped through hoops of contrivance.
02/28/07
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