(2000, 96 min, United States, Miguel Arteta) 

Chuck and Buck are good childhood friends. It's just that they are no longer kids and Chuck (Chris Weitz, co-producer of American Pie) has grown up and become a big music executive. Buck (played wonderfully by Mike White, the screenwriter), on the other hand, has not. Destined to meet again as adults after Buck's mother dies, Buck goes on a fatal attraction spree hoping to relive some of the sexual games he and Chuck had played when they were younger. Buck finds Carlyn (Beth Colt), Chuck's fiancee, a menace to their happiness. So, Buck moves to L.A. and creates a play with the help of a small theatre manager named Beverly (Lupe Ontiveros). Smitten by one of his casted actors, Sam (Paul Weitz, Chris's brother and also co-producer of American Pie), Buck makes it a point to get Chuck to see the play. This is a wonderful original story about growing up and letting go of the past done in a very edgy way. If you can't stand seeing another gay character cast as a "predator", don't see this film. Otherwise, be prepared to be edgy in your seats.

Source : Obtained from QueerCinema.Com

Chuck and Buck
(2000, USA) 
Director: Arteta, Miguel 
Starring: Michael White ; Chris Weitz ; Beth Colt 

Former childhood pals Chuck (Chris Weitz) and Buck (Michael White) are reunited for the first time in years at the funeral of Buck's mother. Perceiving a casual remark to "come visit" as an invitation, Buck follows Chuck, now called Charlie, back to Los Angeles, intent on reviving their friendship. Because Buck is portrayed as emotionally stunted rather than deranged, the audience is not put off by behavior that amounts to stalking Charlie and his fiancee (Beth Colt). The script, written by White, provides a number of surprising revelations, and his adept performance achieves childlike innocence tinged with a quietude that comes across as sexually aggressive. This movie will make you squirm, because everyone has known at least one person we wished would just disappear. 

Although the film deals with boyhood experimentation, male fantasies, homoeroticism, and sexual fixation, it is less about Buck's gayness than it is about forgiveness and coming to terms with one's past. Writer-star Mike White is the son of prominent gay religious leader Reverend Mel White, who works to change attitudes towards homosexuality within Christian denominations. 

--Q Syndicate

Source : Obtained from PlanetOut.Com