Ever have an identity crisis? Tell a little white lie here and
there, just to make everyone happy? Well, Alex Houston has got you
beat, hands down. After telling her fiancé, Dana, that her entire
family is dead, Manhattanite Alex whisks off to her childhood home in
South Carolina to serve as bridesmaid at her high-maintenance,
estranged sister Jeannie’s wedding. As she tries not to steal Jeannie’s
thunder by telling her family that a) she’s engaged, and b) the man
she’s going to marry is a Jewish African American, things get a little
mixed up. For starters, Alex’s sharp-tongued, mischievous best friend
Jonathan unwittingly starts a rumor at the wedding that Alex is gay and
Dana is a woman. When her family reacts in a surprisingly supportive
way, Alex decides to go with it. It’s easier than telling the truth,
right? But when Alex and Jonathan decide to hire sexy lesbian Risa to
act as her lover when Jeannie comes to visit Alex in New York, things
really start to get out of hand. Director Lee Friedlander follows up
her award-winning 2004 film “Girl Play” with this witty, farcical romp
that explores the sometimes comically bumbling way in which we come out
to the people we love - whether we’re gay or straight. As she becomes
increasingly entangled in her web of lies, Alex struggles to come to
terms with her fiancé, her family and most of all herself along the way.
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