All Over the Guy

3/28/2025

I think you have to suspend quite a bit of reality to get anything from this rather contrived story, but there are some quite familiar faces peppering the scenes as we tell, retrospectively via two conversations, of the erratic courtship of “Eli” (writer Dan Bucatinsky) and the alcoholic hunk “Tom” (Richard Ruccolo). They are brought together by the recently hooked up “Jackie” (Sasha Alexander) and “Brent” (Adam Goldberg) but it isn’t the most auspicious of starts. Indeed, after their first date you’d have got better odds on the Danube really being blue. Circumstance and their friends don’t give up easily, though, and gradually the pair begin to get to know each other and take each other, and us, on a dirty washing exercise as we learn of their childhoods and the sources of the chips on va