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Review

Novice filmmakers and sisters Julia and Gretchen Dyer have produced a delightfully romantic lesbian coming-out love story. Set in all-American suburbia, the comedy-drama is set in Eleanor Roosevelt High School where Dinah, a gangly fortysomething math teacher and basketball coach, becomes friends with the cute but doughy Carly, a married school secretary and mother of two. What begins as innocent friendship soon becomes much more as Carly, dulled by years of domesticity, is intrigued and attracted to the shy Dinah. As the two become more bold in their public affection for each other, Carly's husband, her sensitive daughter and young son, as well as neighbors and coworkers begin to talk and become increasingly troubled. But romance triumphs over all adversities as the two women throw caution to the wind and fall passionately in love with each other. Homophobia, and the disruption of the family unit by lesbianism is explored, but it is the invigoratingly tender and refreshingly romantic nature of the two women's love affair that prevails. A bit too sugary (and fantastically unrealistic) for some, but sweetness and fantasy have their place.