It begins with the unnatural death of the not unreservedly loved Tom, lover of both the owner of the house, Kevin, and the punk singer, Wendy. When Wendy discovers that she is pregnant by Tom, she finds, after going on a series of dates, comfort with Kevin, with whom she obviously shares more than a dead lover. Another housemate, Andy, who has been bisexual for some time, is starting a relationship with, of all people, Ramon's married mother, in whom young queen Vince is hopelessly in love. With enough problems, but not enough money, they take on Ben as a housemate, who quickly turns out to have an unquenchable thirst for cleaning, even cleaning trousers pockets complete with their contents. But this quirk pales into harmlessness when his relationship to Andy comes to light... The confusion increases to dizzying proportions when Vince falls victim to gay-bashers, a jealous husband fires bullets in all directions, everyone wants to take possession of a certain tidy sum, and all sorts of mothers decide to intervene in their offspring's affairs...

• Screenplay writer and director Doug Witkins presents a comedy, somewhere between Generation X and Generation Q(ueer), which turns into a drama before mutating into a proper crime story. As Witkins says, just when you think this film is of one kind, it turns out to be something quite different; in this way he departs from cinematic conventions, getting closer to the unpredictability of real life. It is real fun watching the characters act in unforeseen ways, bamboozling the confused-but-satisfied audience. Witkins is particularly clever in the way he lets us in on Vince's love-sickness, so that one more laugh in solidarity with the figure ripples through the auditorium. No Ordinary Love – an innovation in the rice pudding of his competition.

• Films about the confusions and delusions of young, dynamic but hopeless young adults of consistently well-mixed sexuality structures populate the cinemas of the 90's in regular periods, about every quarter. Where, oh where, wonders Queer View, is this, one of the liveliest versions, which became a firm favourite with audiences at festivals and markets everywhere? Where, for crying out loud?
  UPDATE APRIL '97: No Ordinary Love has been picked up by Picture This! Entertainment for world sales.

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