Grief

Despite the success of the big-studio, star-heavy PHILADELPHIA, distributors remain skittish about gay-themed material. A case in point is this crisply written, well-acted, and virtually undistributed comedy-drama revolving around the mainly gay writing staff of a daytime TV drama.

Mark (SWOON's Craig Chester) is the preppie-ish story editor of "The Love Judge," a daytime TV series that routinely pushes the envelope of good taste to hold its ratings position, using everything from infidelity between lesbian circus performers to split personalities and heavy-metal madness. Coping with depression on the anniversary of his lover's death from AIDS, Mark is also fin...