The Broken Hearts Club

Greg Berlanti's film is a notch above most romantic comedies revolving around love, lust, and the gay male. Hunky Dean Cain (TV's Lois and Clark) and Timothy Olyphant (the menacing drug dealer in Go) play Cole and Dennis, West Hollywood roommates and serial boy bedders. That is, until Dennis realizes there's more to life than chasing buff bodies and being gay. As he struggles to define himself, he and Cole shuffle the affections of a young "newbie" from one bedroom to the next, a fellow "hag" is requested to impregnate his sister's lesbian lover, and there are numerous gatherings at the restaurant of the group's sage elder "hag" (a well-balanced John Mahoney). There are plenty of other man-love-life lessons in this predictable melodrama -- perhaps too many -- but the film gets by on the amiable performances and the cheeky bitch humor. At the Avon.
-- Tom Meek