Not a good movie - it's far too much a filmed stage play, complete with long exposition dumps, and the plot is based on an irritating premise, that parents can't bring themselves to ask if their son's partner is a boy or girl. However it is remarkably progressive because the partner is a guy, and a very nice person, who tries hard to be nice, and clearly has a loving relationship with the son.
And the ending feels very true - the kids just let the mother think the boy is a girl. I know it's not everyone's taste but dramatically it works. It's the whole dragged out bit of being unable to ask that doesn't work. The script needed another complication - to actually meet the parents (who are talked to over the phone), or to have a girl turn up, or have Patricia Routledge turn up.
Decent actors. Remarkable it was made.
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