24-year-old
Italian American Frankie Zito catches his girlfriend and his brother at
it on the kitchen table, and needs a new flat. Actor and choreographer
Warren is abandoned by his boyfriend and is looking for a new flat-mate.
His neighbour Terry secretly puts an advert in the paper, which states
"GWM" – a "Gay White Male". Frankie, being straight, completely misunderstands,
and answers the ad as a "Guy With Money".
From now on, it's all about getting rid of prejudices in comic situations. When Frankie discovers his own penchant for acting, he has to come to terms with the fact there is such a thing as gay roles...
The opening scene of Kiss Me, Guido establishes a connection between different minorities. Both gays and Italian Americans like listening to classic disco music, and the greeting rituals are also similar. Apart from that, Frankie and Warren do live in different worlds. While the pizza chef – if you're going to have a cliché, you might as well go the whole hog – has posters of the Italian national soccer team on the wall, Warren's posters are only all about action films, because he has played in them. The Italians prefer to talk about gold chains, rather than who is top or bottom, as the homos in the film do. And as we might have expected, one is a heterophobe, the other a homophobe.
Kiss Me, Guido does have its good moments and works as a multi-cultural comedy for the masses. Unfortunately we do have some reservations, which we report on in our article Kiss Me or Go to Hell!
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