The gay comedy “What Happens Next” by Jay Arnold (2011)
starts out with interesting enough visuals.
Paul Greco (Jon Lindstrom), a confirmed bachelor and CEO for a center
city Philadelphia marketing company, now in his mid 50s, starts out by showing
us his fifty four $500 suits, white shirts, and perfect neckties. We learn he is retiring after a buyout and
will be rich with nothing to do. No, not
even volunteer work.
His helicopter sister (Kimberly Fairbanks) is determined to
marry him off – and says that love doesn’t matter, just companionship and
social appearances. She gets him a pooch
whom he has to learn to housebreak. He calls the doggie “Mrs. Greco”.
But on dog duty near his Rittenhouse Square condo, he meets
an appealing young man, Andy (Chris Murrah) with another dog. You guessed it. Paul will gradually come out.
While Andy is appealing enough and someone you would want to
know (and we can say the same about Claire’s photographer son Brian, played by
Ariel Shafir), the film gets bogged down in cropped and trite script lines.
Many scenes start on the same park bench between Andy and Paul, and give the
impression that the film is really a stage play. And their final intimate encounter is rather short-circuited.
The official Facebook is here.
The film is distributed by Wolfe, known for daring and
over-the-top LGBT films on real
dilemmas. But this little comedy is not
among the company’s best offerings.
The film seems to come from the same people as “The Big Gay
Musical”.
The film can be rented on YouTube legally for $3.99.
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