janus1 This film goes nowhere. If it is supposed to be a man's serious concern about whether or not he is gay, one cannot tell much about what he is thinking except for possibly one scene in a car with his lesbian friend. The film ends with no resolution at all. If he has decided to accept himself, the audience has not idea why. His earlier male relationship is not dealt with. He tells his lesbian friend--who has dealt with her own personal gay concerns--that he is "thinking" about going back to school. He takes some pictures, comes home to his straight friends, to only one of whom he has come out, smiles, and, bingo, end of picture. A total letdown.

jm10701 So... What's supposed to be the point of this movie? That straight white men are the most retarded, obnoxious sub-human species on the planet? That residents of Los Angeles County are the most vapid, self-obsessed, boring people in the US? That in an LA gay movie gay bosses can get away with sexual harassment and even rape of employees as long as they're hot and have fabulous tans, buff bodies and blindingly white teeth? Don't we already know all this?The only thing this movie has going for it is the one thing I care about least in a movie: the technical quality of the production - flawless sound, lighting bright enough that everything on screen is always easy to see, and a camera that never EVER shakes - so that you can easily keep up with everything that happens in this movie while simultaneously eating, texting, playing your X-Box and trying to remember what day it is.This is the kind of movie the geniuses who impress us all with such pronouncements would NEVER complain about as looking like a film-school project. Everything else about this movie is pretty bad, except for some of the acting, which is passable at best. None of the characters is the least bit believable or interesting at all, and the story is about as dumb as they come.If what you care about most in a movie is bright lighting and a camera that never shakes, this one is for you.

Laight Jesse Rosen is a very attractive guy with a wonderful smile--although his hair line recedes oddly throughout the movie as though he's two days from going bald--and plays young-and-sexually-confused well. His female friend who's going through her own confusion does a better job, though, mostly because her character has something of an arc to follow (and better lines to recite). As others have pointed out, the biggest problem here is that just as the third act of the movie starts, and the resolution of the issues begins to settle, the movie ends. For a moment I thought something was wrong with the TV, but nope, it's as though Rosen just decided, let's stop here while I think about how to end this. Still, the movie is worth seeing just for its pleasant, rather realistic recreation of young 20-somethings in LA in 2008.

thesar-2 While The Art of Being Straight wasn't a terrible movie, original for the most part – that is, having a convincingly straight/confused character, it's not great either. I give them kudos for the effort for the majority of the film.After Jon (Rosen) breaks up with his girlfriend and moves to a frat household to be one of the boys again, he discovers he likes, well, boys. The movie just pans out to his "self-discovery" at a relatively slow pace, even at just 70 minutes.Honestly, it's been a few weeks since I've seen this (I'm catching up on a lot of reviews) and nothing really stuck out for me to really remember or recommend. Again, I believed he was straight, for the most part, and that you rarely get in movies like this. In fact, for the majority of gay themed films I watch where a straight male barely puts one foot out of the closet, they might as well mirror RuPaul. So good for them. Too bad the movie as a whole wasn't as good or rememberable. Watch for a quickie before your real movie night.Oh, and side note: for having an independent film, and for someone who wrote, directed, starred, etc, you'd think he wouldn't have gone all out on his "baby" for the DVD. Well, that sucked. Bad. I always appreciate a good audio commentary, outtakes, behind the scenes, etc, to learn more about all they had to go through and sometimes understand the film more. I seriously can't imagine an "Extended/Special Edition" of this movie, but if it does come out, I will re-rent for that purpose.