In & Out (1997)
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Reviews Counted: 49
Fresh: 36 | Rotten: 13
It doesn't always find comfortable ground between broad comedy and social commentary, but lively performances -- especially from Kevin Kline and Joan Cusack -- enrich In & Out's mixture of laughs and sexual tolerance.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 4
It doesn't always find comfortable ground between broad comedy and social commentary, but lively performances -- especially from Kevin Kline and Joan Cusack -- enrich In & Out's mixture of laughs and sexual tolerance.
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Life is sweet for high-school English teacher and sports coach Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline); he's still living where he grew up, he has a good relationship with his father (Wilford Brimley) and mother (Debbie Reynolds), he's respected by his community, and he's about to marry Emily (Joan Cusack), his fiancée of three years. Fearing she was about to become an old maid, Emily has shed 75 pounds for the upcoming nuptials. But first, the entire town of Greenleaf, IN, settles in to watch the Academy
Sep 19, 1997 Wide
Oct 20, 1998
Paramount
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Cast
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Kevin Kline
Howard Brackett -
Joan Cusack
Emily Montgomery -
Matt Dillon
Cameron Drake -
Debbie Reynolds
Berniece Brackett -
Wilford Brimley
Frank Brackett -
Bob Newhart
Tom Halliwell -
Tom Selleck
Peter Malloy -
Deborah Rush
Ava Blazer -
Lewis J. Stadlen
Ed Kenrow -
Gregory Jbara
Walter Brackett -
Shalom Harlow
Sonya -
J. Smith-Cameron
Trina Paxton -
Kate McGregor-Stewart
Aunt Becky -
Shawn Hatosy
Jack -
Zak Orth
Mike -
Lauren Ambrose
Vicky -
Alexandra Holden
Meredith -
Glenn Close
Herself -
Whoopi Goldberg
Herself -
Selma Blair
Cousin Linda -
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All Critics (49) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (13) | DVD (6)
Fast-moving and very funny.
Actually, the funniest parts of the movie are excerpts from the film that Cameron is originally nominated for.
Basically a one-joke farce that plays around with a once-delicate subject that by now is a mainstay even on TV.
The Hollywood stuff at the beginning with Glenn Close as an Oscar presenter and Matt Dillon as a puffed-up star on the rise is as funny and as nasty as anything in Libby Gelman-Waxner's columns.
Oz wants it both ways, though, and can't resist hammering home the message with a prolonged Spartacus-style climax quite as ludicrous as the Oscar winning film-within-the-film.
Top CriticNever amounts to more than a thin sketch.
Forget the inevitable carping and give credit where credit is due.
If only it was gay in the old sense of the word.
The clever screenwriter Paul Rudnick cooks up a solid script that's both wildly funny and gently satirical.
Lighthearted comedy gently satirizes "coming out."
In & Out is the screwball Philadelphia, a movie that contorts itself in order to indulge and then whitewash the core audience's perceived homophobia.
A plain ol' enjoyable time at the movies.
Paul Rudnick has written scenes that will go down as classics.
We could use more movie comedies like In & Out.
A benign spoof on the bias people have against gays.
Overall, it isn't bad, but it is disappointing.
Oh, what a swell movie we have with In & Out.
The film was directed by Frank Oz, who's not the edgiest of filmmakers but still put together a fine little film, well made and entertaining.
Kline delivers an intriguing, fence-straddling performance.
Audience Reviews for In & Out
Super Reviewer
Director: Frank Oz
Summary: When dim-bulb actor Cameron Drake (Matt Dillon) wins an Oscar for playing a gay Marine, he outs his high school drama teacher, Howard Brackett (Kevin Kline), in his acceptance speech. It all comes as a surprise to Howard -- not to mention to his long-suffering fiancée, Emily (Joan Cusack). With his wedding just days away and national media descending on his town, Howard's under the gun to prove just how much of a man he is.
My Thoughts: "Although the film is funny and even silly at times, it really shows how very small minded some are about Gay people. That being said, the film was fun. Kevin Kline was great as Howard. I personally enjoyed the scene where Howard is listening to a Masculine tape. Stereotypical, yes, but funny none the less."
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Foreign Titles
- In and Out (UK)
