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Gay Comedy Rip Off?

July 18, 2007

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Remember all those movies where a kid and an adult accidentally switch bodies? Judge Reinhold had one. So did Tom Hanks, and even Susan Sarandon. Is it possible we’re seeing the same trend develop within the homo-erotic/homophobic Hollywood comedy genre?

Our gay blog crush Towerload has the scoop on a 2004 Australian comedy called Strange Bedfellows, the highest-grossing film in Oz that year. The film was about a straight cinema owner and a mechanic who fain homosexuality to claim a financial benefit. That film’s director, Dean Murphy, is concerned that his movie’s plot is a little too similar to the storyline of the new Adam Sandler comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry.

In Chuck & Larry Adam Sandler and Kevin James are firefighters who act gay so that they can claim domestic partnership benefits from New York city.

Honestly, can someone really have a claim to such a lame idea? Wasn’t this “Three’s Company” like 30 years ago?

The Australian paper The Brisbane Times reports that the director of Strange Bedfellows has not seen the film yet but was struck by the similarities upon viewing the trailer. He also has received emails alerting him to the fact that Chuck & Larry is the same film as his.

“It’s obviously annoying if they have ripped the film off but until we see it, it’s so hard to know.”

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