Fire Island
2022Comedy · Romance105 min
Sharper about race and class in gay spaces than it had any obligation to be.
Pride and Prejudice, relocated to a gay beach week.
Our take
Joel Kim Booster wrote himself and Bowen Yang a Jane Austen adaptation set over one week on Fire Island, and the structure fits alarmingly well: a rigid social hierarchy, money, a rude rich man, and everybody’s reputation on the line by Thursday.
It is very funny — the Marisa Tomei of it all, the underwear party, Yang’s karaoke — and quietly serious about being Asian in a scene that treats that as a preference. The friendship between the two leads is the actual love story, which is the correct read of both Austen and Fire Island.
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Scores
Ours
Jibbi Score — 4.5 out of 5 rainbows. Sharper about race and class in gay spaces than it had any obligation to be.
Also recorded
- Rotten Tomatoes — 94%, as recorded on Wikidata — Rotten Tomatoes has no public API, so this is the openly licensed figure rather than a live reading.
- TMDB — 6.9 out of 10 from 298 votes, refreshed daily.
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The plot, officially
A group of queer best friends gather in the Fire Island Pines for their annual week of love and laughter. However, desires, dramas, drink and drugs push their bonds to the limits.
Synopsis and poster via TMDB.
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