I Think I Do

(1998 Feature Film)

Starring Alexis Arquette

Reviewed by Blase DiStefano




I Think I Do, I Think I Don't: Alexis Arquette and
Christian Maelen share one of many awkward moments.

Two guys who had a thing going—only in their heads—as college roommates, meet again five years later at a mutual friend's (straight) wedding. The problem is that one of them is engaged to be engaged to another man and the other one isn't out of the closet. But they've still got that thing going.

I Think I Do tries to be like a screwball comedy of the '30s and '40s "with a modern twist." According to Brian Sloan, the film's writer and director, "The ways in which screwball comedies poked fun at social mores seemed ripe for revival. However, what had been taboo back then (divorce and infidelity) was now quite commonplace. . . . There had to be something [else] subversive at work. . . ." How about homosexuality?

Fun premise. Not-so-fun execution. Those screwball comedies of the past had good scripts and good direction—I Think I Do has neither.

But hey, that's my opinion, and you know what they say about opinions. So see it for yourself.

["I Think I Do" started Houston's
2nd Annual Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
at Houston's Landmark Greenway Theatre on May 22, 1998.]

[This review ran in OutSmart magazine, May 1998.]

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