Pretty quickly it disintegrates into a mishmash of character caricatures competing for airtime in which to spit out overly quirky dialogue in predictable set-ups.
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08/23/08
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Comedies
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
Reviews for Gray Matters
While the light and whimsical comic timing of the leads carry the film far, even they cannot blind us to Gray Matters' many shortcomings.
02/28/08
Graham carries this for a while, but Kramer spends entirely too much time weakly satirizing Graham's job at an advertising agency, where Molly Shannon's a kvetching coworker.
12/03/07
Forgettable coming-out comedy for older teens.
11/01/07
...an amiable misfire.
07/20/07
In its genre writer-director Sue Kramer's film sets a new record for bright shining peepers and dimply smirks. It's enough to kill Buster Keaton's entire family.
06/30/07
Despite being bogged down by several distracting, extended dance numbers, this zany farce has just enough momentum and surprises along the way to hold one's interest for the duration. But it'll help immeasurably if you're a devotee of daytime soap operas.
06/28/07
Gray's matters are pretty mundane, to tell you the truth
05/14/07
Decked out in its fondness for old Hollywood films and American songbook standards, Gray Matters borrows the wallpaper from a Nancy Meyers movie to decorate its empty room.
03/27/07
Gray Matters feels dated: Gray's self-identity confusion is less "adorable" than annoying, and both she and Charlie appear exceptionally clueless about what's going on.
03/17/07
Much too eager to please rather than dealing with the messier issues around sexual identity.
03/13/07
I can’t recommend it for gay audiences, the presumed target demographic, because they are likely to find it innocuous at best and downright insulting at worst.
03/10/07
The writing isn't sharp enough for the film to work as comedy, nor are the characters real enough for the audience to connect emotionally.
03/09/07
First-time director Sue Kramer allows [Graham] to mug her way through every scene. You find yourself constantly wanting to cry out: 'Heather, please, a little less!'
03/09/07
All the characters feel superficial, a sensation heightened by a roster of too-cute secondary characters.
03/09/07
[Heather Graham's] never looked better, despite the unflattering digital video format, which makes it all the more tragic that she's not appearing in better material.
03/09/07
There is, one has to assume, a pretty good old-fashioned screwball comedy in all this, but director-writer Sue Kramer seems to have grown up watching Rhoda so Graham, usually a capable actress, has not a word of actual dialogue, only gag lines.
03/09/07
Nearly every scene of this movie rings hollow, mainly because we can never really believe that what we're seeing up on the screen could truly happen.
03/09/07
Top CriticThis movie falls into the gray area between good and just okay.
03/09/07
Is New York City populated only by talky, insufferable singles who obsess over their trivial romantic entanglements?
03/09/07
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