Simon Almqvist Gray Matters is currently graded 5.7 on IMDb. I, however, defied this low rating and went ahead and saw it anyway. With no regrets, might I add. Like others have mentioned the cast is great and beautiful, but the movie goes beyond that, in my mind; its setting, plot etc makes it worthy of a higher grade than 5.7. Now, to be perfectly honest, I did enter the movie because of the promise of a lesbian Heather Graham (yes, I'm a young male viewer:), but I stayed tuned because of the charming dialogue and the magical atmosphere. On a more serious note, however, I think the development of the characters, especially Gray, was rather realistic. While certain events, like the impulsive wedding, wasn't quite as realistic, it became necessary to speed some things up to have room for the developments of Gray's story that, in my mind, would have seemed tacky if hurried along. What I'm saying is that, to make a good movie, you need to make some compromises and I should say the director made good choices in this regard. Although I wished they would have expanded a few minutes more on the final "chapter" of the movie. I'm not gonna spoil and tell you what happens but I would imagine you'd agree had you seen it. And so, to sum up, 8/10!

TxMike Heather Graham is Gray and Thomas Cavanagh is Sam. The movie opens with them dancing together, clearly enjoying themselves. Then we see them at their apartment, a cute couple. But an odd couple, they are sister and brother, maybe even twins, we are never told. All we know is when Sam answers someone that they had known each other for 30 years.Bridget Moynahan is Charlie who becomes a romantic interest. I didn't particularly like Molly Shannon as co-worker Carrie, but I just don't like Molly Shannon. I really enjoyed Alan Cumming as the Scottish cab driver Gordy who falls for Gray. And, in a small role Sissy Spacek was effective as a therapist who holds her sessions in unusual places with Gray, a rock-climbing wall, for example.A cute movie for the actors but the story isn't particularly great.MAJOR SPOILERS are contained in the rest of my comments. When Sam meets Charlie they quickly fall in love, and plan to get married that weekend in LV, much to the horror of Gray. But forced to go along, Gray and Charlie have a night out, with much alcohol, and Gray and Charlie end up kissing passionately. Gray finds herself attracted to her brother's bride, and in the process fully realizes why she has not had a relationship with a guy -- she is gay! All this causes a falling out between Sam and Gray, but in the end they mend everything. Because, to Sam and Charlie, Gray matters!

mattgambit This is one of the worst movies I have seen this year. You should not see this movie but if you insist on wasting your time you should stop here, there are SPOILERS. Gray Matters centers on Gray and Sam Baldwin (Heather Graham and Tom Cavanagh). Only Gray and Sam are Brother and Sister; living together in everyone else's eyes as man and wife. No sex but just about everything else. Early on, the movie starts with its theme: 'the most absurd thing at the most absurd moment with you guessed it the most absurd reactions'. Gray and Sam decided to check out the dog park with a borrowed pooch. Rather then push her brother to get the skinny on first woman they see for him, she does it and gets to the nitty-gritty questions too. When she signals her brother to come over they start a 3-way date. Charlie (Bridget Moynahan) is the girl of THEIR dreams, like all the right things etc… Sam final hits Gray over the head and the couple finishes the date with a marriage proposal! That Charlie accepts! In one week Charlie, Gray and Sam are to be in Vegas. In the next week Charlie and Gray are off shopping for wedding gowns (apparently Charlie has an off-the-rack figure). Gray is slurping an iced latte when Charlie suggests Gray tries on some gowns as well and picks out a $10,000 frock for her. While Charlie is zipping her in this 'down-payment-on-a-house' gown Gray continues to slurp on the latte (I swear it was like a feed bag). What should happen but 'woops!' latte all over the gown. It is never explained how they got out of Bloomingdale's bridal salon with out a $10,000 mocha colored gown. Back to 'reality' – Caesar's palace Las Vegas. They have the 'high roller room' (Sam is a resident surgeon and Charlie is an intern zoologist – were do they get all this money?) Gray kicks Sam out to the single room down the hall so she and Charlie can have a bachelorette drink-a-thon were, you guessed it - they kiss. Gray remembers everything; Charlie remembers nada. They make it to wedding chapel and right when the Reverend gets to his line "If there is anybody is here who has any objection whatsoever to the union of these two lovebirds" Gray gets the hiccups. Gray excuses herself, for some reason the Reverend must repeat his last line and right on queue again 'hiccups'. Gray gets back to NY and starts dating any man she meets, literally. And of course one is you guessed it again! Gay. The other is a jerk and the third is a taxi cab driver (Alan Cummings) named Gordy. He is smittened with Gray but the feelings are not returned. They become great friends. This is good because when she comes clean with Sam about the kiss. He blows up and kicks her out of their apartment. When Sam comes to his senses he goes to her office. Gray works at an ad agency. This office is smack in the middle of the twilight zone. It has cameras and microphones in all the conference rooms that broadcast to all computer monitors at the agency. Sam gets Gray in one of the conference rooms for a not-so-private conversation and ends up outing her to the entire office. This is where I doubt that there was a gay man or lesbian on the crew: Gordy comes to her rescue and convinces her to go to a lesbian bar. 'Sorry no men' says the bouncer. So Gray and Gordy return with Gordy in drag. Bad drag. He was in a sleeveless black satin-like blouse, a string of pearls, and a grandma's church hat. No lesbian would ever confuse this 'man in a dress' as a drag queen much less a woman. The bar was also the straight man's fantasy of what a lesbian bar is: full of Victoria's Secret models. Everything turns out peachy – she goes home with her firm's client. Gray happens to be on the woman's account and finally does more then kiss. For some reason no one tells Charlie anything and she is oblivious through the whole movie of this kiss with Gray, but that is for the sequel.

jleclair-1 Otherwise it is one of the worst movies I've ever seen - and I mean ever. My wife and I were both bored out of our minds within 10 minutes. Not to mention being boring, it is entirely unbelievable. Women (non-lesbian) don't bathe together - nor do they "accidentally" kiss. Brothers and sisters don't live together well into their 30s and run around swing dancing together and engaging in footraces in central park. Men don't find out their wife and sister romantically kissed the night before the wedding and then never discuss it with said wife. Absolutely ridiculous.Heather Graham is possibly the worst actress in films today. She smiles when she should be crying and vice versa. The only movie she has ever been good in is Boogie Nights - and that is because she wasn't acting.I cannot stress enough how bad this movie was.