244. The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy directed by Greg Berlanti

Movies That Made Us Gay

"I can't decide if my freinds are the best or worst thing that ever happened to me". We watched "The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy" written and directed by Greg Berlanti and we've got some gay stereotypes to squash! Whelp it's taken us this long to finally get to this one. When did we get to the point where a movie from the year 2000 is considered a period piece? Aside from feeling personally attacked by that little tidbit, the fierce fashions in this movie were absolutely sending us. Let's just say those polyester shirts looked very... flame retardant. Millers Outpost shopping spree aside, this film means a lot to gay men of a certain age. Representation matters and seeing a (somewhat) realistic protrayal of gay men in their twenties, riddled with anxiety, self doubt and all the other little things that make us just... regular people, was such a breath of fresh air. Listen, maybe everyone in this movie is a heart-throb (ahem - Timothy Olyphant?!) but at least there was no clichéd coming out story, sassy GBF or "Noble Gay" dealing with the horrors of HIV. We got as close to a gay version of "Friends" as we could for 2000. Maybe some of the dialogue is a little heavy handed but writer/director Greg Berlanti was 28 when he made this movie! At that age I couldn't even balance a checkbook! We as gay people, we get to choose our gay movies we turn into a personality trait.

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