Following 2020’s trend of queer holiday romances, streaming giant Netflix has just dropped the trailer for Single All the Way.
The film marks the streamer’s first foray into the LGBTQ holiday romance space. The film stars queer actors Philemon Chambers and Michael Urie as Nick and Peter, respectively, a pair of longtime roommates in Los Angeles. Peter works as a photographer, while Nick makes his living writing children’s books. When Peter’s parents (Kathy Najimy & Barry Bostwick) lobby him to return to the east coast for the holidays, Nick tags along. Then Peter’s mom tries to set him up with a handsome trainer, and Peter and Nick both must confront questions about their future amid the holiday madness. Luke Macfarlane, Jennifer Robertson and Jennifer Coolidge also star.
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Directed by Michael Mayer, Single All the Way arrives on Netflix December 2. Have a look and get ready for some love and cheer.
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Charlie in Charge
As someone who for the most part enjoyed the very formulaic holiday romances last year I appreciate that this trailer makes it explicitly clear how the film will end and that is 100% what the audience for it desires.
ingyaom
A Christmas film about dating your best friend? This seems misguided. Are gays behind this?
Cam
This plot is recycled over and over on all the channels.
Cam
Sometimes I guess, equality means, LGBTQ movies get the same recycled plotlines that straights have gotten for years.
Really? Two gay friends have been best friends for a DECADE and it never occurred to them to get together, but SUDDENLY they think they should get together because one has a date?
Glad we’re getting media to cast and plot these movies from a queer point of view, but I wish they could come up with some better plots.
Let me guess, the next one will be about the busy executive and the hometown carpenter who teaches him about the joy of Christmas, A time travel one where journeying back to a simpler time puts life in perspective, or one where somebody is really a prince but is pretending not to be and falls in love.
Charlie in Charge
I mean…. it’s a holiday romance movie it’s not meant to have an especially complex plot. Wishing for that is a bit like going to a chain pizza restaurant and being dissatisfied with the wine selection – that’s not what most people go to those places for.
I do think equality means having our own versions of the same formulaic films that straight people get.
We have had the busy executive meets the down-home heartthrob you describe – that’s Dashing in December (and it was fine but not as fun as The Christmas Setup).
Cam
@Charlie in Charge
You’re right, I was just being a grinch. 😉
BoomerMyles
Love Jennifer Coolidge. “For some reason they’re always obsessed with me.”
Toofie
That line was hilarious!
dinard38
It’s funny. Jennifer plays the same character in every movie she’s in, but she’s always good for a laugh. 🙂
Saps48
Jennifer steps outside her usual shtick to great effect in “Swan Song.”
TedV
Kathy Najimy AND Jennifer Coolidge? Yes, please!!
jorgecruz
Sorry but the writers dont know reality. Gay best friends have one of these types of relationships; 1) they met hooking up on an app, found out they are both bottoms and became best friends, or 2) one has been in love with the other for ever but his friend isnt sexually attracted to him, but they stay friends hoping one day his friend will change his mind-he never does. Or 3) they are best friends, have sex when they are drunk, high or lonely, always think they can do better so they never become real boyfriends because they both expect to meet someone better. Eventually they move on to different f-buddies and ghost each other. That is the real tea.
Cam
Netflix, please hire @jorgecruzas a script doctor to inject a little reality into your slate of gay movies. lol
Essie
I mean, it looks okay. You can’t really expect much from a Christmas rom-com. They are all the same and that’s what people seem to want, happy and upbeat. If you look at the Hallmark Christmas movies (you will go blind) they are EXACTLY the same, even that gay one from last Christmas. (Or was that on Lifetime? Doesn’t matter. Same channel, different name.)
Eugene Levy said that, when Catherine O’Hara said no to “Schitt’s Creek” he asked another actress if she would be in the pilot and the actress said yes. I’ve always wondered if that actress was Jennifer Coolidge. They’ve worked together before. I’ve often wondered how she would have done the part of Moira. She’s pretty much a one-note actress but funny.