Fourth Man Out

I saw this as a pure dudes film, and I can't believe how much I like it, and how much I related to it. 4th Man Out is a true testament of what it means to have diversity in film.

It's about stereotypical frat boy types who have a coming-of age moment when one of them reveals to the others he's gay.

It's a story of true male friendship as the team adjust to a life changing moment from someone they knew all there life.

It was funny. I feel like it was design to teach guys how to be a true friend to one another. It has all the jokes from a frat boy comedy.

On the same level, it's romantic. I'm not into the romcoms yet this one was excellent, as Adam, the fart boy who comes out of the closet tries to find love, and his best friends attempt to help him.

the movie was just so nicely done. It feels like the filmmakers had a personal connection with the story content and it breathes all over this film.

Very impressive and worth checking out.

Evan Todd gives a stellar performance, in this average movie, of just a normal work-a-day guy coming out to his friends. He's tired of living the lie so he spills the beans to his life long buddies and they learn to live with it. Each one has his own female 'relationship issues' so now their adult life bring a new relationship issue between themselves.

Director: Andrew Nackman & Writer: Aaron Dancik keep the gay issue lite because this shouldn't be an issue between friends that have been friends since childhood. There are funny moments as Adam (Evan Todd) tries to meet up with other guys. Some are just too weird for words. Nothing seems to go well and his friends want to help - but how?

4th Man Out is easy entertainment. A coming out flick that doesn't throw challenging scenes in the story. It's just about an average guy, who everyone seem to like, becoming himself.

The piece this movie gets right is the straight friends' concern and compassion for their gay friend. This movie finds its heart when the straight friends start worrying that their gay friend is lonely. They realize that the key piece is that we're all lonely, and their gay friend is more susceptible to that loneliness. And they love him and try to protect him.

Maybe, the honesty is the lead virtue of this film about friendship, coming up , a small town, nice drops of humor and ordinary events. It is not a manifesto, it has not the desire to be a heartbreaking movie . But a simple, honest portrait of few characters and the connection between them. And , sure, the consequences of a not so comfortable words.

Four best friends ... but one of them is different. Well everyone is different from the other guy, but one of them is ... homosexual. But no one knows, apart from himself of course. Cue a coming out, many funny weird situations and a lot of drama. The movie tries to keep it as real as possible. How would some react if they knew or a friend of theirs would come out? It does not take things lightly, though at times you could accuse the movie of taking in cliches a bit too far.

Having said that, it still is grounded in reality. If you are squeamish when it comes to sexual orientation, than obviously this is not for you. There is also male on male kissing. This is not about you enjoying that short moment and I'm just giving a heads up. Not judging nor critisizing nor anything else. Overall though this is really well made and whatever or however you may feel about certain small things should not matter (again I leave this up to you the viewer or not, to decide).