(Dir. Wade McDonald. US, 2011. 97 mins).

A gay wedding is the backdrop to this lighthearted, love-tangle drama. When lonely lawyer Aiden receives an invite to his ex’s wedding and can’t scare up a date to take along to the big event, things seem bad enough, especially as he still has feelings for his former lover, but then Max asks him to be Best Man too, which means staying at Max and his fiancee’s lakehouse for the weekend. In a desperate attempt to save face, Aiden takes along his roommate’s annoying twink colleague as his pretend boyfriend, with sharp-tongued roommate in tow, and everybody gets more than they bargained for by the end of the weekend.

Wade McDonald’s first feature film takes a while to get going and stretches a pretty flimsy story to over 90 minutes. The acting is not always good and the characters sometimes obnoxious. On the plus side, there are some nicely awkward and comic scenes, especially the ones with twinky Lance, who benefits from a more interesting storyline. If the relationship between Aiden and Max seems a little drab at times, Aleisha Force as roommate Janice provides the movie with some much needed sparkle. And top marks for creating some rounded, less stereotyped characters, Lance’s bitching and flapping notwithstanding.