Written And Directed by Noah Pritzker
Mickey: "With everything you're going through, you present yourself as a bit needy."
Peter: "That's interesting. I don't see myself that way."
As I'm heading into Pride Month, there will be a lot of LGBT themed movies I'll be covering during that month and over the summer in general. This was one that recently came to my attention.
It's not so much a gay themed movie but one of the three main characters happened to be gay and his love life was given a bit of focus. Mostly, it's a film about fathers and sons and divorce/separation.
The father in question was dentist Peter Pearce (Griffin Dunne). At the start of this movie he wasn't happy about his own father, Simon (Richard Benjamin) divorcing his mother, Eunice (Marcia Jean Kurtz) after sixty five years of marriage. Simon on the other hand believed that he could love again.
The opposite happened and Simon ended up in a nursing home while Peter himself was now getting divorced from his own wife, Maria (Rosanna Arquette). On top of that, he was kind of seen as a bit of an inconvenience to his grown sons, Nick (James Norton) and Mickey (Miles Heizer). Neither of them were thrilled when apeter announced he was going to Tulum, Mexico during Nick's bachelor party.
I thought once the movie shifted to Mexico that Peter would be a source of contention for his sons but he actually tried to keep his distance. He even befriended a couple named Otto (Nate Mann) and Hewette (Zora Casebere). There was even a hint of a possible romance with Hewette's godmother, Eileen (Eisa Davis) but it fizzled out too quickly.
Among the bachelor party, it turned out that Nick and Thea (Rachel Zeiger-Haag) broke up and Mickey hooked up with the straight Arroyo (Pedro Fontaine). Some of Nick's friends such as Lowry (Simon Van Buyten), Chris (Echo Kellum) and Aaron (Lou Taylor Pucci) are there to make up the numbers while Simon's eventual death became something of a bonding experience between Peter and his sons.
- Arroyo definitely came across as more bisexual than straight. I'm guessing he's got an arrangement with his wife about hook ups.
- Simon's favourite movie was To Be Or Not To Be. Peter had gotten him a huge poster.
- Both Nick and Mickey and even Arroyo all seemed to have forms of depression and were taking medication for it.
- Chronology: Present day New York City and Mexico, though there's a six year time jump early in the film.
Ex-Husbands (or Men Of Divorce) presented itself as a charming enough story, looking into themes of divorce, loneliness, male mental health and even coming. There's an easy going rapport with Griffin Dunne, James Norton and Miles Heizer and the three work very well together.
Rating: 7 out of 10
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