Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Supelice Dreadfully Boring

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Irishchatter This movie was really funny at parts. However what I can't get off my mind was how Sam was engaged with a snap of a finger to a women he met 24 hours later. I thought it was kinda stupid like Charlie should've said no and went with Gray. I mean the movie really didn't send a good message on how true love should work. They kinda made Charlie act dumb in this film which she shouldn't just because she is a Zoologist after all! That would be the disadvantage in my opinion of this film.The main advantage was that the legends Gloria Gayner and Molly Shannon really stood out in this film!

Simon Almqvist Gray Matters is currently graded 5.7 on IMDb. I, however, defied this low rating and went ahead and saw it anyway. With no regrets, might I add. Like others have mentioned the cast is great and beautiful, but the movie goes beyond that, in my mind; its setting, plot etc makes it worthy of a higher grade than 5.7. Now, to be perfectly honest, I did enter the movie because of the promise of a lesbian Heather Graham (yes, I'm a young male viewer:), but I stayed tuned because of the charming dialogue and the magical atmosphere. On a more serious note, however, I think the development of the characters, especially Gray, was rather realistic. While certain events, like the impulsive wedding, wasn't quite as realistic, it became necessary to speed some things up to have room for the developments of Gray's story that, in my mind, would have seemed tacky if hurried along. What I'm saying is that, to make a good movie, you need to make some compromises and I should say the director made good choices in this regard. Although I wished they would have expanded a few minutes more on the final "chapter" of the movie. I'm not gonna spoil and tell you what happens but I would imagine you'd agree had you seen it. And so, to sum up, 8/10!

TxMike Heather Graham is Gray and Thomas Cavanagh is Sam. The movie opens with them dancing together, clearly enjoying themselves. Then we see them at their apartment, a cute couple. But an odd couple, they are sister and brother, maybe even twins, we are never told. All we know is when Sam answers someone that they had known each other for 30 years.Bridget Moynahan is Charlie who becomes a romantic interest. I didn't particularly like Molly Shannon as co-worker Carrie, but I just don't like Molly Shannon. I really enjoyed Alan Cumming as the Scottish cab driver Gordy who falls for Gray. And, in a small role Sissy Spacek was effective as a therapist who holds her sessions in unusual places with Gray, a rock-climbing wall, for example.A cute movie for the actors but the story isn't particularly great.MAJOR SPOILERS are contained in the rest of my comments. When Sam meets Charlie they quickly fall in love, and plan to get married that weekend in LV, much to the horror of Gray. But forced to go along, Gray and Charlie have a night out, with much alcohol, and Gray and Charlie end up kissing passionately. Gray finds herself attracted to her brother's bride, and in the process fully realizes why she has not had a relationship with a guy -- she is gay! All this causes a falling out between Sam and Gray, but in the end they mend everything. Because, to Sam and Charlie, Gray matters!

Roland E. Zwick While watching "Gray Matters" - which marks the film-making debut of writer/director Sue Kramer - I kept wondering if maybe I hadn't somehow stumbled back into "Puccini for Beginners," a movie I'd seen a few weeks earlier, since both are oddly similar, equally implausible tales of Manhattan yuppies involved in romantic triangles of the bisexual kind.Gray and Sam are siblings who not only live in the same apartment and spend most of their free time together but are so emotionally attached to one another that people often mistake them for a romantic couple. As if that weren't queasy enough, the screenplay ups the ante by having the hitherto heterosexual Gray suddenly "discover" she's a lesbian when she falls for Sam's gorgeous new wife, Charlie (yes, I know all this can be a bit confusing, but Charlie is a woman).As with "Puccini," most of what happens in "Gray Matters" feels contrived and artificial. We don't believe for a second that two seemingly rational people like Sam and Charlie would become engaged after only a single date, or that even an indecisive ditz like Gray would be this in-the-dark about her own sexuality.Thus, with so little of the storyline grounded in anything even closely resembling reality, we find ourselves detached from the characters and indifferent to their fates. That's no denigration of the lead players - Heather Graham, Thomas Cavanaugh and Bridget Monahan - all of whom are appealing and likable in their various roles. And there are some sharp supporting performances by Molly Shannon, Alan Cumming, and Sissy Spacek as Gray's loopy therapist (though there is a brief cameo appearance by singer Gloria Gaynor that is pure unadulterated pandering). Moreover, New York City looks all sparkly and shiny as seen through the lens of cinematographer John S. Bartley's camera.With its countless references to 40's musicals and romantic comedies, "Gray Matters" clearly sees itself as both an homage and a throwback to the metier and style of those earlier films. But we are obviously living in different times, and the labored setups and screwball comedy devices that worked so well in the past feel pretty darned anachronistic and forced when employed today. My feeling is that if you're going to make a modern romantic comedy, one that deals with such "contemporary" issues as coming out and sexual identity, then make a movie that actually feels modern. Don't try to tuck it safely away in the past, then expect us to take any of it seriously. Despite it's taking on those relatively gutsy issues, "Gray Matters" really doesn't exist in anyone's world, and certainly not in the racially and economically diverse world of 21st Century Manhattan."Gray Matters" presents us with life as only those in the movies ever really live it.