Love Is Strange

I watched this at home on DVD from my public library. My wife decided to skip.

All in all, because of the actors, this is a fine movie. While the focus is usually on the gay couple, Alfred Molina as George and John Lithgow as Ben, there also is a focus on the young boy coming of age and the extended family coming to grips with Ben's aging and needing more help.

Even though George had taught music at a catholic school for a number of years, and everyone knew he was gay, when he and Ben decided, after 39 years together, to get married he was scrutinized. The bishop learns of this and quickly George was out of a job. So with that and Ben's spotty painting income they had to sell and look for a more affordable apartment.

A big theme of the story regards love being pretty much the same for gay couples as it is for man-woman couples, the same joys and the same difficulties.

For me it was fun to see Darren E. Burrows, he of course played a key character, Ed Chigliak, in the old Northern Exposure TV series.