This "Gray" could have used more color.
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03/07/07
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
It's so awful that it enters that weird realm in which it becomes actively annoying. The moviegoer sits there, hoping the characters will be tortured and die horrible deaths.
03/08/07
Sitcommy, forced and forgettable.
02/21/07
Attempts to do Woody Allen by way of Nora Ephron, but romantic comedies in that vein are only as good as their banter, and Gray Matters' banter is conspicuously sub-par.
03/03/07
Is she or isn't she? Only her screenwriter knows for sure.
02/26/07
The movie’s light, airy tone comes to a screeching halt in certain scenes that are excessively sentimental, melodramatic and preachy.
02/25/07
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
Unacceptable.
02/23/07
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
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 CriticIn 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
[Heather Graham] needs something to counteract her wholesomeness. In Gray Matters -- her name is Gray, get it? -- what you see is what you get. The fact that her character 'discovers' she is gay is as unbelievable as it is contrived.
03/01/07
What matters here is Kramer's unrealizable determination to be original with a romantic comedy two-fer.
02/20/07
Never have I ever wanted to climb into the screen and kill every single character as much as I did with this movie.
02/22/07
Forgettable coming-out comedy for older teens.
11/01/07
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
One of those completely disposable and clumsy attempts to make a gay romantic comedy that constantly slips on its own good intentions.
03/08/07
This movie is dopey.
03/05/07
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
Some unlikely scenes but it kept me entertained enough to make it enjoyable.
03/06/07
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