Synopsis
A young gay artist, desperate to replace the relationship he had with his recently relocated godson, is targeted by a neighborhood mom as a potential threat to the community.
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Cast
- Peter PaigePaul Johnson
- Kathy NajimyMaggie Butler
- Anthony ClarkRussell Trotter
- Lisa EdelsteinSarah Faber
- Jim OrtliebDavid Berman
- Gabrielle UnionElise Carter
- Melanie LynskeySusan
- Katie O’GradyMother #1
- Ayanna BerkshireMother #2
- Don AdlerGrant Sweet
Recommendations
- 75
TV Guide Magazine
"Queer as Folk's" Peter Paige makes a strong debut as a writer/director with this original black comedy. - 70
Film Threat
A consistently provoking dark comedy that not only sheds light on our cynical society, but on mentally unstable people who find solace in children. - 70
Los Angeles Times
The ending is a little too neat and smacks of wishful thinking, but Paige has created an engaging and insightful entertainment with considerably more substance than most small-budget, independent gay films. - 40
Variety
The politics of homophobia and child molestation receive a badly misjudged tweaking in Peter Paige's writing-directing debut, Say Uncle. - 38
New York Daily News
Dramatically miscalculated satire. - 30
The New York Times
Say Uncle may be trying to address gay persecution and social paranoia, but it mostly comes off as a study of arrested development. The movie's most laudable gamble is its refusal to make either Maggie or Paul sympathetic, but the moral subtleties are obscured by a one-dimensional script and a protagonist as self-centered and lacking in expression as a fetus. - 20
The Hollywood Reporter
An acutely misguided, purported satire dealing with the prickly subject of child molestation. - 10
L.A. Weekly
You'll be begging for mercy well before the end of this self-righteous, thoroughly unsavory "farce" about a lonely gay man who - gosh darn it - can't seem to stop getting mistaken for a pedophile.
