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This movie is about a guy coming out to his friends. The best part of it is how realistic it is portrayed. His friends may find it weird to some point (not that being gay is weird, but that the friend they knew for many years is) but they know that he is the same person and try to be there for him. This movie is a true friendship movie.

Acting is really good. You can feel the true friendship chemistry between them and what they may be feeling. The anxiety of Adam, the confusion and wish to be a good friend from the rest.

There are also fun moments, mainly from Adam's dating. The guy who pretended to be another one, the Scarface guy, the guy whom he scared away with farting. Then there is a neighbor who is worried about Adam's eternal damnation and gets a priest.

It is a good movie. My only complaint is that there seemed to be no real plot story. But no matter what it was good light entertainment.

I rented this the other night on On-Demand--with great trepidation. I have seen "indie" films before on the subject of coming out, and most of them made me wretch because they were so bad. Did I ever find a nice, refreshing surprise in "Fourth Man Out."

Adam, an auto mechanic who could live in Anytown, U.S.A, decides on his 24th birthday that it is time he came out to his uber-straight buddies. He is tired (and weren't we all at one time or another) of playing the straight game; tired of denying his true feelings about who he would rather be with. Trouble is, Adam is kind of a wimp and simply cannot find the right time to tell his buds. Oh, that time does finally come, with some funny/some touching results.

I applaud director Andrew Nackman for dealing with his subject matter like an adult. The characters in this film all seemed real, and if you're a gay man, you've probably encountered them all. The farting scene had me in stitches! I also applaud the writer, Aaron Dancik, for making his characters real and not caricatures. I have seen so many films where a "straight" director did not have a clue how to treat his actors. They either had the acting range of a turnip or were taken so over-the-top you just wanted to slap them until your arms got tired. Parker Young plays Chris (the best friend), and Evan Todd plays Adam, the guy who just cannot get out of his own way.

Rated "R" for language and adult situations. There is no nudity or male/male sex--either implied or actual. Recommended.

(Spoilers) This a story about a guy portrayed as very "normal" who at 24 y/o tells his lifelong buddies he is Gay. Well, he starts with his best friend.

There were a number of things here that were very good - his friends were generally supportive, the dialogue was mostly realistic, the picture quality, scenery and filming was well done. Three of the four main characters were very good looking, in shape, fairly well muscled. The story was entertaining and there were several pretty good comical situations. I really liked the part where his best friend is acting funny upon hearing the news and the lead says "I'm still the same guy." I applaud the inclusion of common sense, which we need more of.

However, this is supposed to be present day - it is hard to imagine that his friends, sister, or parents did not have the slightest inkling he wasn't straight after knowing him all his life. There were a number of places where I wasn't sure what message was being given by the film or was it just poor attempts at humor? For example, the lead's first date was with an unattractive man who misrepresented his online dating photo. When the lead isn't interested, the date asks the lead character if he is shallow, only wanting someone good looking. Uh, no, the date is obnoxious and quirky as well. This date pops up a couple more times and far too much time is wasted on him, again poor attempts at humor. But later when the lead (finally) meets someone presumably not loaded with personal issues, they talk for about 15 seconds and the movie is over.

I didn't understand why the lead, when explaining he was Gay and his parents didn't seem to get it, he had to put something in his mouth and simulate oral sex. "that kind of Gay" he explains. (????) I found the mother's instant acceptance strange, the only thing she was "upset" about was they missed out on sharing his "real" life. Really? How could our lead have completely missed that his parents have been totally accepting/non-judgemental for his entire 24 years? I suppose its possible.

It was funny enough and the guys were plenty good looking that I'll probably watch it again. But as others have said, the stereotypes just won't go away.

I was really looking forward to this film and the first few minutes seemed promising, but then, what felt like hours later, I was actually glad to see it end. The problem was that it was just so darn boring.

The plot itself was straightforward and is one that anyone who watches LGBT themed films has seen several times before. Basically, a gay guy comes out to his childhood friends who wrestle with how to be good friends despite their discomfort. So of course, they all laugh and cry and love and learn important life lessons and blah, blah, blah...

In addition to being a recycled concept with basically zero originality, the use of stereotypes was pretty heavy handed. I was particularly insulted by one scene where, after the group of friends finally seemed to have turned a corner with his sexuality, the two bestest of the four best buddies are sitting on a couch after a night of drinking. Next thing you know the gay guy tries to kiss his friend claiming that he thought his straight friend was trying to kiss him. WTF?!?!? That scene undermined the entire film. Suddenly this guy who has sworn up and down to his friends that they are just his friends tries to kiss a guy he knows, and I mean he KNOWS, is interested in women, specifically because the gay character's friend is torn between his friend with benefits and a woman with whom he has a genuine connection. That to me was insulting to a lot of people and totally unrealistic.

There was also a scene where the protagonist has finally had a successful date with a guy from online after a series of what were supposed to be hilarious misadventures (FYI, they weren't that funny). So, our hero is making out with prince charming, but then he farts, then he farts again; after that prince charming just ditches him without a world. Not only did that come across as gross; it was kind of insulting. Are gay men really so shallow and strange? Have the writers never passed gas on a date? The various dating vignettes were pretty unpalatable overall, but that one was cringe-worthy.

Honestly, I can think of probably five other films that are all but identical to this one, only difference being that they were better. What made matters worse was that this film had some decent actors, they were simply wasted on a movie that was formulaic and way too drawn out.

It's a normal story about a guy and his friends discovering a new world.

Here we go again. The overriding question for anyone straight watching this film is why the hell is this guy gay? Why so much angst to get the audience to accept this hunk of beefcake for only other men? Sure, he is a mechanic and loves sports and all - a real guy - but .....

You have the posse who are all macho bluster but hey, lets' show our bud how much we care so let's go to a gay bar and have an absolute balll!!!!! Lets hook up to gay dating sites and get our pal a man!!!!! Lets get drunk and almost make out!!!!! Lets APOLOGIZE and then kiss just to see if we both like each other or not!!!! Hey, who knows, we might ALL be gay!!!!! Worth a shot.....

Meanwhile, this, and all the spate of films like it, continue to illustrate that homosexuality is a problem for all involved. And seriously, this guy is supposed to be 24? In this day and age? And still act so innocent? And the whole religion thing which was kind of laughed off - as usual. Complete with priest.

I suppose the worst part of this little slice of propaganda is that this is the kind of guy who we are to imagine "marries" the Prius guy and they have a couple of "kids" so that grandma can be happy and the kid will have lots and lots of uncle role models. Yippee. Hmm, I wonder why the guy has TWO kayaks already?

Whenever I see guys like this I always wonder what they mean when they say they "need a man." Judging from the type of guy this "kid" lit up for, he seems to have daddy issues to me. In short, if he is lucky, those he knows will kind of go along but there will always be that undercurrent that is homosexuality and only Adam will be able to find peace with that internally, not externally. In other words, so long as he stakes his happiness on "gay love", it will be hollow. It always is.

Moral: accept homosexuality or be thought of as a hateful bigot.