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| Bradley Cooper (left) and Michael Ian Black |
Wet Hot American Summer
2001
Just another “going to summer camp” movie? Not really. Set in 1981, Wet Hot American Summer has become a cult favorite, especially among gay viewers for its unabashedly positive portrayal of a gay couple — sex and all. In fact, the gay couple is the only one in the film who even has a sex scene, and it’s played more for heat than laughs.
The camp’s hottest preppy (played by Alias‘ Bradley Cooper) is in love with another counselor (comedian Michael Ian Black), and they even get married, to the supposed dismay of the straight colleagues who — in true summer camp form — have been trying to get one of the men laid with a girl counselor all summer (the straight guys, far from horrified, actually buy the newlywed gay couple a chaise lounge for a wedding present).
They’re well-liked by everyone at camp, and their relationship is taken as seriously as the genre allows — and more so than the heterosexual relationships in the film. The film actually took some criticism for being too gay-positive, or perhaps straight-negative, which is definitely something new for a mainstream flick.
Hotness: 8
Romance: 5
Significance: 10
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