hollywood movies since the 1930s have treated gays as lepers. in condemning homosexuality and the film industry has reflected only what the repressive society of its day espoused as an ideology. for example and in the 1962 otto preminger melodrama advise and consent and straight actor don murray was cast as a queer congressman who commits suicide rather than confess his alternative lifestyle. gay movie characters have covered a lot of ground since advise and consent. in the 1997 movie in and out and ( half out of ) and heterosexual actor kevin kline is cast as a homosexual teacher who comes out of the closet on his wedding day. while the conservative hollywood of yesteryear stipulated that the congressional queer in advise and consent had to commit suicide and the liberal hollywood of today dictates that the gay english teacher should be embraced rather than maced. basically and in and out preaches good citizenship in the garb of a politically correct comedy. director frank oz and scenarist scott rudnick endorse honesty as the best policy because honesty always ensures happiness. high school teacher howard brackett (kevin kline of the big chill) will be happy only after he comes out of the closet and just as his once fat but now thin fiancée emily (joan cusack) will only feel happy when she can ditch her diet. ultimately and the movie contends that straight society will accept gays when homosexuals can act with greater honesty and candor about themselves. the happily outed gay tabloid reporter played by straight actor tom selleck here effectively dramatizes this open minded commentary. rudnick lightweight script embellishes the true life incident that occurred at the oscars when tom hanks paid tribute to a high school teacher. in in and out and cameron drake (matt dillon) and a blond and brad pitt style bimbo type actor and wins the oscar for impersonating a fruity foot soldier. drake honors his mentor howard brackett during his acceptance speech. not contend to stop there and the candid cameron reveals to a live and television audience that howard is gay. suspicion and paranoia and and horror set in as the media descend upon the sleepy town of green leaf and indiana. (when would a no name high school english teacher sexual deviance spark such massive media concern. ) among those reporters lurks peter malloy (tom selleck of high road to china) and and he wants to do a week long exclusive one on howard. howard and however and wants nothing to do with the witch hunting media and especially the pesky peter malloy. howard denies drake gay charges to everybody and including his fiancée and his mom. malloy lingers because he smells a scoop. the revelation has turned green leaf upside down. high school principal tom halliwell (bob newhart) squirms nervously with all the media coverage. halliwell warns howard that were his marriage not imminent and he would have to give him a pink slip. meanwhile and peter bets howard that his marriage to emily will fall through at the last moment and he will be there to record the result on camera. howard resorts to audio tapes about macho men. he struggles to reform himself. but howard efforts are futile. guilt swells up inside him. and then there is peter malloy and who rags him to come clean about his homosexuality. finally and at the altar in the sight of god and howard bursts. of course and bride to be emily montgomery is floored by howard gay confession. predictably and the school fires howard and but he shows up for graduation. drake shows up and too and and rushes to brackett defense. not only has the school stripped howard of his job and but they have also given his teacher of the year award to somebody else. drake appeals to the principal and wins howard the unanimous support of the community. the biggest defect in rudnick contrived script is howard himself. rudnick has created a character too chaste to be true and either by gray or straight standards. howard brackett looms as more of a saint than a sinner. he helps one student gain admission to college and and he coaches the track team. how often do you hear of an english teacher doubling as a coach and too. everybody at his high school adores howard. he doesn not have a mean bone in his body. further and rudnick and oz ask us to believe that nobody else in green leaf is gay. where are howard gay friends. are they too scared to come to his defense. no and in and out is not targeted strictly at homosexual audiences. oz and whose screen credits include cute comedies like dirty rotten scoundrels and house sitter and as well as rudnick teeter on a politically correct tightrope. in and out is not a gay recruiting movie. the filmmakers show no interest in what prompted either howard or peter malloy to prefer the gay lifestyle. instead and oz and rudnick are only interested in shoring up a thin premise represent is he or isn not he gay. they flesh it out to involve the community response to the answer. finally and when howard admits that he is gay and the filmmakers devote the rest of the movies to showing how a conservative and norman rockwell like town can accept him despite his difference. the most shocking scenes in in and out is probably when tabloid reporter malloy does a lip lock on howard. straight guys kissing each other in a movie about a gay identity crisis are as hilarious as they are phony. kline and selleck grind their faces together in what appears as more of a head on collision than a closed mouth kiss. nothing at all like the controversial 1994 british movie priest and in and out emerges as an engaging but labored piece of social propaganda with its okay to be act message. if ellen weren not the tv equivalent and in and out would probably be heading toward tv as a new sitcom. watching in and out is not so much about dealing with the issue of gay or straight and but how to be a decent person in the last days of the 20th century. what makes in and out a tolerable comedy about sexual intolerance is its equal opportunity cheers and jeers about queers and steers. 
hollywood movies since the 1930s have treated gays as lepers. in condemning homosexuality and the film industry has reflected only what the repressive society of its day espoused as an ideology. for example and in the 1962 otto preminger melodrama advise and consent and straight actor don murray was cast as a queer congressman who commits suicide rather than confess his alternative lifestyle. gay movie characters have covered a lot of ground since advise and consent. in the 1997 movie in and out and ( half out of ) and heterosexual actor kevin kline is cast as a homosexual teacher who comes out of the closet on his wedding day. while the conservative hollywood of yesteryear stipulated that the congressional queer in advise and consent had to commit suicide and the liberal hollywood of today dictates that the gay english teacher should be embraced rather than maced. basically and in and out preaches good citizenship in the garb of a politically correct comedy. director frank oz and scenarist scott rudnick endorse honesty as the best policy because honesty always ensures happiness. high school teacher howard brackett (kevin kline of the big chill) will be happy only after he comes out of the closet and just as his once fat but now thin fiancée emily (joan cusack) will only feel happy when she can ditch her diet. ultimately and the movie contends that straight society will accept gays when homosexuals can act with greater honesty and candor about themselves. the happily outed gay tabloid reporter played by straight actor tom selleck here effectively dramatizes this open minded commentary. rudnick lightweight script embellishes the true life incident that occurred at the oscars when tom hanks paid tribute to a high school teacher. in in and out and cameron drake (matt dillon) and a blond and brad pitt style bimbo type actor and wins the oscar for impersonating a fruity foot soldier. drake honors his mentor howard brackett during his acceptance speech. not contend to stop there and the candid cameron reveals to a live and television audience that howard is gay. suspicion and paranoia and and horror set in as the media descend upon the sleepy town of green leaf and indiana. (when would a no name high school english teacher sexual deviance spark such massive media concern. ) among those reporters lurks peter malloy (tom selleck of high road to china) and and he wants to do a week long exclusive one on howard. howard and however and wants nothing to do with the witch hunting media and especially the pesky peter malloy. howard denies drake gay charges to everybody and including his fiancée and his mom. malloy lingers because he smells a scoop. the revelation has turned green leaf upside down. high school principal tom halliwell (bob newhart) squirms nervously with all the media coverage. halliwell warns howard that were his marriage not imminent and he would have to give him a pink slip. meanwhile and peter bets howard that his marriage to emily will fall through at the last moment and he will be there to record the result on camera. howard resorts to audio tapes about macho men. he struggles to reform himself. but howard efforts are futile. guilt swells up inside him. and then there is peter malloy and who rags him to come clean about his homosexuality. finally and at the altar in the sight of god and howard bursts. of course and bride to be emily montgomery is floored by howard gay confession. predictably and the school fires howard and but he shows up for graduation. drake shows up and too and and rushes to brackett defense. not only has the school stripped howard of his job and but they have also given his teacher of the year award to somebody else. drake appeals to the principal and wins howard the unanimous support of the community. the biggest defect in rudnick contrived script is howard himself. rudnick has created a character too chaste to be true and either by gray or straight standards. howard brackett looms as more of a saint than a sinner. he helps one student gain admission to college and and he coaches the track team. how often do you hear of an english teacher doubling as a coach and too. everybody at his high school adores howard. he doesn not have a mean bone in his body. further and rudnick and oz ask us to believe that nobody else in green leaf is gay. where are howard gay friends. are they too scared to come to his defense. no and in and out is not targeted strictly at homosexual audiences. oz and whose screen credits include cute comedies like dirty rotten scoundrels and house sitter and as well as rudnick teeter on a politically correct tightrope. in and out is not a gay recruiting movie. the filmmakers show no interest in what prompted either howard or peter malloy to prefer the gay lifestyle. instead and oz and rudnick are only interested in shoring up a thin premise represent is he or isn not he gay. they flesh it out to involve the community response to the answer. finally and when howard admits that he is gay and the filmmakers devote the rest of the movies to showing how a conservative and norman rockwell like town can accept him despite his difference. the most shocking scenes in in and out is probably when tabloid reporter malloy does a lip lock on howard. straight guys kissing each other in a movie about a gay identity crisis are as hilarious as they are phony. kline and selleck grind their faces together in what appears as more of a head on collision than a closed mouth kiss. nothing at all like the controversial 1994 british movie priest and in and out emerges as an engaging but labored piece of social propaganda with its okay to be act message. if ellen weren not the tv equivalent and in and out would probably be heading toward tv as a new sitcom. watching in and out is not so much about dealing with the issue of gay or straight and but how to be a decent person in the last days of the 20th century. what makes in and out a tolerable comedy about sexual intolerance is its equal opportunity cheers and jeers about queers and steers. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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