All Over the Guy
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| Directed by | Julie Davis |
| Produced by |
Susan Deitz Juan Mas Dan Bucatinsky Donnie Land Juan A. Mas |
| Written by | Dan Bucatinsky |
| Starring |
Sasha Alexander Dan Bucatinsky Adam Goldberg Joanna Kerns Lisa Kudrow Andrea Martin Christina Ricci Doris Roberts Richard Ruccolo |
| Music by |
Peter Stuart Andrew Williams |
| Cinematography | Goran Pavicevic |
| Edited by | Glenn Garland Mary Morrisey |
| Distributed by | Lionsgate Films |
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95 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1,051,948 |
All Over the Guy is a 2001 American gay-themed romantic comedy film written by Dan Bucatinsky and directed by Julie Davis.
All Over the Guy is about Eli (Dan Bucatinsky) and Tom (Richard Ruccolo). The film is told mostly in flashback, with Eli recounting his side to Esther (Doris Roberts), an HIV clinic worker as he waits for test results and Tom to a guy he meets at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Tom is the son of emotionally distant alcoholic WASP parents who never quite accepted his sexual orientation and as a result is a heavy drinker himself and has a penchant for random hookups with different men. Eli's parents are both Jewish psychiatrists who raised him to be emotionally open but ended up making him neurotic.
Tom and Eli are set up on a by their best friends, Jackie (Sasha Alexander) and Brett (Adam Goldberg), who think they would be a perfect match. They're both looking for 'The One', but don't recognize it when they find it. On the date, a boring evening is broken up only by an amusing diatribe by Tom against the movie In & Out. A few days later they run into each other at a flea market and hit it off, winding up back at Eli's place where Tom spends the night. The next morning Tom says that it was a mistake.
Jackie and Brett decide to try again to set them up, and the two men start to develop a relationship. Tom's fear of becoming emotionally close coupled with Eli's own insecurities makes it difficult for them to maintain, but Jackie and Brett get engaged which forces Tom and Eli together. They disguise their unease behind petty arguments over meaningless details of grammar and pronunciation but are finally able to push past the pettiness and make love. Eli tells Tom he loves him and Tom, terrified, lashes out at him the next day and drives him away.
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