Francis Geminiani (Alan Rosenberg) has a romantic affair in college with Judith Hastings (Sarah Holcomb) until he drops her after a few nights of intimacy. Filled with guilt and misgivings, Francis is eventually forced to admit that he is really in love with her brother Randy (David Marshall Grant), who does not live up to his name. Randy is a wealthy, conservative Harvard student and Francis is a poor and liberal Harvard student. When Judith visits Francis during the vacation, she finds he thinks he is gay. Pressures from Judith and his macho father causes him to experience a crisis of sexual identity that destroys his 21st birthday party. This comedy-drama about coming out of the closet features Bunny Weinberger (Madeleine Kahn) as a salty, warm-hearted, and very promiscuous neighbor, and Nick Geminiani (Robert Viharo) as the outgoing father.
This film is funny and touching at times, with some good performances. The actors capture the essence of the ethnic characters they are portraying and the social condition they are living in very well. It shows the difficulty that many people face when opening up and talking about personal emotions out of fear the other person will feel differently about them. Beneath the shallow appearance of everyday life, deeper themes are at work. In a way, this film helped start the trend that picked up pace through the 1990s and one can look at it as one of the precursor "coming out" films that undoubtedly inspired some people in a positive way. Cathy Chamberlain and Rich Look composed the original music. Richard Benner wrote the screenplay based on Albert Innaurato's play "Gemini", the off-Broadway smash of the 1970's, and it loses some of its magic on the big screen. Richard Benner directed.
