Noah and four friends - Luke ( Matt Rogers), Keegan ( Tomas Matos), Max ( Torian Miller) and Howie ( Bowen Yang of “Saturday Night Live”) - gather at the home of their doting lesbian mother figure ( Margaret Cho, of course) every year for a reunion/get-away and landlocked “cruise.” Plainly, Noah’s never visited Disney World in June. Imagine “Fire Island,” New York’s gay getaway, as a version of Jane Austen’s Bath in the early 19th century - a vacation town where all the right people mix and mingle, court, flirt and perhaps “couple.” That’s what writer and star Joel Kim Booster does for the latest among many films to use that title - and yes, there was even a TV series titled “Fire Island,” too.įew locations are as evocative of what most everything set on “Fire Island” is about - gay love and the freedom to express it.īooster plays Noah, sort of Jane Austen’s “Emma” transplanted to “Pride & Prejudice.” Noah is our narrator/guide to this mash-up of Austen themes and characters rendered in bitchy, banana-hammocked, molly-popping strokes on some gay friends’ “last week” at “the Gay Disney World,” as he describes it.
