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Girl Play

2005, Movie, NR, 80 mins

Girl Play: Review

GIRL PLAY
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Good gay-girl date movies are few and far between, which is one more reason — on top of the fact that it's funny, smart and pretty sexy — to pounce on this cleverly written romantic comedy about female friends who toy with love while rehearsing a play. Stand-up comics Robin (Robin Greenspan) and Lacie (Lacie Harmon) have gotten to know each other pretty well on the club circuit, but never considered becoming lovers. That's not surprising in light of the women's wildly different attitudes about relationships. Robin likes being with someone, and she and her control-freak lover of six years, Audrey (Katherine Randolph), have taken their relationship to the legal limit; they share a lovely home in North Hollywood and have even exchanged rings in a commitment ceremony. Lacie, on the other hand, doesn't really do relationships, or at least she doesn't do them very well. Her last was with an irritating chatterbox named Cass (Lauren Maher) who wanted more than Lacie was prepared to give — like sex on a regular basis. Lacie is once again playing the field and she likes it that way; strangers in bars have limited expectations. Robin's and Lacie's ideas about themselves and each other, however, undergo a seismic shift when an eager theater director (Dom DeLuise) convinces them both to star in a two-woman play about a lesbian artist who cheats on her girlfriend with a man. The busy rehearsal schedule and the nature of the play mean that Robin and Lacie are now spending a lot of time in each other's arms, an arrangement that puts a strain on Robin's life with Audrey and forces her to consider whether or not she's with the right person. Lacie, meanwhile, must rethink whether she really is better off alone after all. Originally conceived as a stage piece by Greenspan and Harmon, it's a stretch to say the play has really been adapted for the screen; the film is still structured like a live performance, with both women appearing on an empty stage and even pausing for laughs. Their alternating monologues act as voice-over narrations for dramatizations of past events, such as Robin's coming out to the mother (Mink Stole) she's deathly afraid of disappointing, and Lacie's equally funny/sad description of the moment during sex when she decided to break up with Cass. Too many musical montages break the momentum, but overall it's an engaging piece of work, regardless of which team you play for. leave a comment --Ken Fox
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