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About the script...
The screenplay for The Perfect Wedding was inspired by The Cosby Show, a 1980s sitcom featuring a black family in which the humor didn't come from the characters' race -- a TV show that entertained without relying on or perpetuating stereotypes.
The Gaffney/Brockmann family writing team decided to take the same approach with this gay romantic comedy after realizing that many GLBTQ movies either used closeted characters as a source of humor, or were angsty coming-out stories.
Where were the movies about families like their own, where being gay was considered no different than being tall or having freckles, where the ability to be true to one's self was something to celebrate, where coming out -- or the fear of coming out -- didn't create even a tiny bump in the road, let alone a conflict big enough for a movie-length story, where love and support has been, is, and will be always present...?
Where were the gay characters who, thanks to the generations of incredibly courageous GLTBQ people who came before them and refused to live life in the closet, could help redefine normal -- by showing the movie-viewing public that they were not all that different from the Julia Robertses, Hugh Grants, Anne Hathaways and Owen Wilsons who have laughed, cried, and fallen in love in Hollywood's romantic comedies throughout the years?
Finding few movies like that, the Gaffney/Brockmann team decided to write their own.
The question of Paul and Gavin's sexuality is not a part of the story in The Perfect Wedding. None of the gay characters are in the closet. Their families and friends all know that they are gay, and no one cares. (Why should they?) There are no stereotypes -- the humor comes from the situations the two romantic leads find themselves in, and their responses to the obstacles they must overcome to win their happily-ever- after.
The story is light and set during the Christmas season. The focus is on the lives of one small family as they deal with issues that all families face.
And the message is no different from any other romantic comedy: Life is better when you take that risk and open yourself up to the possibility of finding that special someone to walk beside you through good times and bad.
The screenplay for The Perfect Wedding was inspired by The Cosby Show, a 1980s sitcom featuring a black family in which the humor didn't come from the characters' race -- a TV show that entertained without relying on or perpetuating stereotypes.
The Gaffney/Brockmann family writing team decided to take the same approach with this gay romantic comedy after realizing that many GLBTQ movies either used closeted characters as a source of humor, or were angsty coming-out stories.
Where were the movies about families like their own, where being gay was considered no different than being tall or having freckles, where the ability to be true to one's self was something to celebrate, where coming out -- or the fear of coming out -- didn't create even a tiny bump in the road, let alone a conflict big enough for a movie-length story, where love and support has been, is, and will be always present...?
Where were the gay characters who, thanks to the generations of incredibly courageous GLTBQ people who came before them and refused to live life in the closet, could help redefine normal -- by showing the movie-viewing public that they were not all that different from the Julia Robertses, Hugh Grants, Anne Hathaways and Owen Wilsons who have laughed, cried, and fallen in love in Hollywood's romantic comedies throughout the years?
Finding few movies like that, the Gaffney/Brockmann team decided to write their own.
The question of Paul and Gavin's sexuality is not a part of the story in The Perfect Wedding. None of the gay characters are in the closet. Their families and friends all know that they are gay, and no one cares. (Why should they?) There are no stereotypes -- the humor comes from the situations the two romantic leads find themselves in, and their responses to the obstacles they must overcome to win their happily-ever- after.
The story is light and set during the Christmas season. The focus is on the lives of one small family as they deal with issues that all families face.
And the message is no different from any other romantic comedy: Life is better when you take that risk and open yourself up to the possibility of finding that special someone to walk beside you through good times and bad.