SummaryThe suburbs are about to get hysterical in this "not quite black" comedy about suspicion, fear, and misunderstanding, and a gay artist living in Portland.
Directed By:Peter Paige
Written By:Peter Paige
Say Uncle
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
31
User score
Generally Favorable
7.3
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
31
33% Positive
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11% Mixed
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56% Negative
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75
"Queer as Folk's" Peter Paige makes a strong debut as a writer/director with this original black comedy.
70
The ending is a little too neat and smacks of wishful thinking, but Paige has created an engaging and insightful entertainment with considerably more substance than most small-budget, independent gay films.
40
The politics of homophobia and child molestation receive a badly misjudged tweaking in Peter Paige's writing-directing debut, Say Uncle.
38
Dramatically miscalculated satire.
30
Say Uncle may be trying to address gay persecution and social paranoia, but it mostly comes off as a study of arrested development. The movie's most laudable gamble is its refusal to make either Maggie or Paul sympathetic, but the moral subtleties are obscured by a one-dimensional script and a protagonist as self-centered and lacking in expression as a fetus.
10
You'll be begging for mercy well before the end of this self-righteous, thoroughly unsavory "farce" about a lonely gay man who - gosh darn it - can't seem to stop getting mistaken for a pedophile.
0
Laughless, pointless and downright creepy, Say Uncle is a would-be black comedy.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.3
71% Positive
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Jul 28, 2024
10
It's a very interesting movie. This script is perfect. watch a good movie, it's really not boring. No matter how many times you watch it, you won't get bored. Good luck.
