Synopsis
Sam and Gray are such a well-matched pair that it is difficult to believe they are brother and sister rather than husband and wife. They both share a love of 1940s movies and dancing, and when they meet Charlie, they have something else in common: They both fall in love with her. Sam must deal with unexpected feelings of jealousy, while Gray struggles to come to terms with her sexual orientation.
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Cast
- Heather GrahamGray Baldwin
- Bridget MoynahanCharlie Kelsey
- Tom CavanaghSam Baldwin
- Alan CummingGordy
- Sissy SpacekDr. Sydney
- Molly ShannonCarrie
- Rachel ShelleyJulia Barlett
- Bill MondyJordan Phillips
- Warren ChristieTrevor Brown
- Don AckermanConrad Spring
Recommendations
- 60
The Hollywood Reporter
While Kramer's well-conceived screenplay features much amusing dialogue, there's a forced quality to the proceedings that makes the comic premise seem more artificial than it needs to be. - 50
Variety
Scripter/helmer Sue Kramer's awkward freshman outing eventually coasts on the genuine charm of its leads. A strong vehicle for Heather Graham, who has never looked lovelier, "Gray" scores most convincingly in its reinvention of Carole Lombardian sexual screwiness as head-spinning gender confusion. - 50
The New York Times
Compared to Gray Matters, even a Nora Ephron bonbon has the weight of urban neo-realism. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
The only bright spots are Cavanagh's easy charm about him and Cumming's performance as Grody -- he's much more believable as a straight man than Graham is as a gay woman. - 50
New York Daily News
This exhausting romance feels more like a long-lost episode of "Three's Company" in which Jack Tripper decides he is actually gay. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
Graham makes the coming-out dithering bearable, but not before she has jumped through hoops of contrivance. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Kramer shows zero feeling for the nuances of a midlife sexual awakening. - 25
San Francisco Chronicle
Every once in a while you catch glimpses of originality and see what Gray Matters might have been if it hadn't gone soft and safe.
