Everything Relative

1996, Movie, NR, 110 mins

EVERYTHING RELATIVE
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"I didn't want the '70s to end!" exclaims one of the women who make Sharon Pollack's romantic comedy-drama go 'round. For some, apparently, they never did: Rarely has a new film felt so dated. Six thirtysomething gay women and their one straight friend gather at the family house of Katie (Stacey Nelkin): She and her longtime partner Victoria (Monica Bell) are the proud parents of a new baby boy. All the women have long, often tumultuous histories with one another -- friends since college, it seems each, at one point or another, has slept with the other -- and it isn't long before some old flames are rekindled, while others are extinguished. The obvious comparison is to Lawrence Kasdan's THE BIG CHILL, but the pervasive and embarrassingly out of date politics drag it way closer to John Sayles' THE RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN. This gang's credo actually is "The personal is political," and the women spend a lot of time spouting a particularly tired brand of '70s feminism. It's surely meant to be nostalgic, but it feels cliched. leave a comment
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